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Back when PBS was still worth watching, more than 20 years ago, The American Experience presented a documentary on the Hoover Dam. Many of the people interviewed for it actually worked on the project or lived in the area.
It’s definitely worth watching if you can find it.
Ben Shapiro tells a student, in an audience that is surprisingly very supportive of Ben, why he doesn’t think it is hate speech to say there are only two genders. He says it in the clearest language. I like his analogy of his grandfather having paranoid schizophrenia, and Ben is grateful his doctors didn’t say “Nate, you’re fine. We believe the radio is actually talking to you” because, “That is not a service to him”.
Russian ship is fine.
It is being promoted to “Special Submarine Force”!
This one hasn’t been sunk … yet. However, considering the damage Black Sea Fleet sustained it is doubtful they’ll find funds to rebuild her. Same goes for the two Ropucha landing ships damaged in the attack that sunk the Aligator.
Watching that video, made me wanna reach out through the screen and throttle those folks….each of whom taking at least $250,000 a year to say we don’t do or know shit.
I’m not surprised…
Still no PUBLIC enquiry over the Nova Scotia mass Murders…
What F’ing Joke.
SEPARATION – I cling to that as the only potential escape from CLOWN WORLD.
I think this story is overblown a bit.
You can already buy plug and play third party electronic control modules without John Deere’s bullshit in them to bypass their control over customers repairing the equipment.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard that. Good for the free market!
Yup. The idea that someone can make a software lock that cannot be overcome by a hardware fix (including hammer and crowbar) is laughable. New owner might need to replace several parts (like the starter and the fuel pump) with low-tech replacements, but disabling the polution controlls should actually decrease fuel burn by 5-10%.
I wonder if I post a story about a Ukrainian woman resting rape, would there be people explaining that if they held her right she would not be able to resist?
Sparky electric cars and their DANGEROUS chargers…
“…researchers cited in the report found numerous security flaws in EV chargers that allowed hackers to remotely switch the units on and off, remove the owner’s access to the charger, and lock or unlock the charging cable. They could also potentially steal a vehicle owner’s identity and use it to charge their own vehicles. The researchers also suggested that hackers could reprogram a charger to render it completely inoperative, or use it to attack other chargers; and if the charger is Wi-Fi connected, they could infiltrate the charging network and possibly the entire power grid, especially in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems in Europe that allow EV owners to send power back from their vehicles into the power grid.”
Ya know, I have 3 different 6/12 volt battery chargers, ranging in size from a little old 5 amp unit that’s probably 60 years old all the way up to a relatively new 250 amp booster. Also have a little trickle charger that maintains the Hawg’s battery throughout winter. None of them could care less about security, Wi-Fi, programming, networks, power grids or anything else. Plug ’em in & they just work. No attempts at world domination.
Curious, that.
Indeed.
Chris.
I am sooooo glad to be driving a vehicle with ZERO Connection to the internet.
Isn’t GM looking at RENTING Electronic key fobs now…? Buy a car but Access to the internal software is soon to become a monthly payment on top..??
I’m sure there are a few people who’ll be interested in this…..
“Biden recently signed into law a requirement that all vehicles produced after 2026 be fitted with a remote kill switch. Electric vehicles are already equipped with this capability via internet-connected “superchargers.” These corporations can sell you a product for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, then prevent you from using them. Worse yet, if the law is not challenged or repealed, these kill switches will have a “back door” that allows government agencies to shut your vehicle off remotely as well.”
I’m sorry, DB. You’ve used up your mileage allotment for the month. Globull Warming & all that. [click] Or, I’m sorry, DB. You look like you’re heading to that protest in Sodom-On-The-Rideau. Das ist verboten. [click] Or, I’m sorry, DB. There’s a pandemic on. No travel allowed. [click] Or…
Biden Will “Address” the Baby Formula Shortage… By Giving a Statement Only to His Fervent Supporters in the Leftwing Propaganda Corporate Media, Who Will Then Spread the Propaganda to the Rubes
“No president wants to be personally associated with a scarcity in baby formula that may literally result in dead babies. (Dead babies beyond the intended number.)”
In light of the recent TGF regarding abortions, I guess I’m somewhat surprised at the left’s reluctance to associate themselves with death…
The Democrats’ solution to a shortage of baby food?
Post birth abortions.
I’d like to submit my long & distinguished list. Surely they won’t mind if there’s a coupla Canuck recommendations, too.
Not a surprise to anyone paying attention.
The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates
“Four-year-olds at an Alert Bay, British Columbia school were reportedly given this homework assignment on touching their private body parts. The worksheet asks students to draw pictures of places in their home where they can masturbate privately.”
So that’s what happened to a certain prime minister…..
Back in the day when things wouldn’t be put on hold because of a striped minnow.
Make cannabis legal, they said.
Then you could tax it and control it, they said.
It’s a license to print money, they said…
“Aurora Sky Cannabis is closing its facility in Edmonton after reporting more than a $1 billion net loss in its most recent quarter.”
“The company blamed the net loss on pricing pressures exacerbated by temporary pot shop closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
from Wikipedia…
“Aurora Sky and Aurora Sun are Canadian cannabis growing greenhouses and among the world’s largest…
Aurora Sky is a 100,000 kg per year (220,000 pounds), 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m2) cannabis growing greenhouse on Edmonton International Airport property in Leduc County, Alberta. Construction on a 50% to 100% larger facility, Aurora Sun, in Medicine Hat, was “paused” in late 2019.”
Somewhere, in a basement, a hippie is laughing his a** off.
“When it was opened, the Aurora Sky facility was meant to be almost completely automated and would grow mid-tier flower, but the consumer “evolved” and developed more nuanced tastes that did not lend themselves to automation, said (Miguel Martin, Aurora CEO). Sky had to be retrofitted retroactively, but the needs and scale became “a bit of an impediment,” and eventually the company was losing a “significant” amount of money on the facility.”
People didn’t want to pay premium prices (plus excessive taxes) to buy dry, musty weed?
Who’d a thunk it?
Didn’t his Nibbs Daddy say the same thing about having our very own gas stations, you know Petro Canada. “This can’t go wrong we will make billions” Then sold them all off at a huge loss.
Liberals get wealthy in Canadastan.
Soy scumbag is a trust fund baby.
” Justin’s paternal grandfather was a wealthy entrepreneur who at one time owned a string of gas stations that he transferred to Petrofina for a substantial amount of shares in their company.
Justin’s dad, Pierre, had the bright idea of creating the public oil company Petro-Canada in which the Canadian government subsequently bought out all of the shares in Petrofina Canada as well as BP Canada at top dollar, in order to create it.”
If the wind’s blowing in the right direction, you can smell it at the airport.
“Somewhere, in a basement, a hippie is laughing his a** off.”
Only the federal gov’t could take a cash crop like pot & go bankrupt with it. These are the same kinda idiots who couldn’t figger out how to erect a flag in the Ukraine.
Since Aurora opened, everytime I went past it on the way to YEG, (when I could actually board a plane) I would say, “How long before that goes bust?” (After they have given bucketloads of our money away first) Spouse started rolling their eye-balls as they got tired of hearing it. Everything the government gets involved in goes to sh..t.
Question of the day. Could you even build the Hoover Dam today?
The permitting would take longer to get than the concrete to harden (hint: 100 yrs).
Any large-scale construction project is subjected to being permitted to death. Often, it’s how the government scuttles them without overtly saying no.
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline endured the farce of the Berger inquiry only to produce a result that many of us already suspected that was what PET wanted. The whole process was rigged and the “consultations”, “input”, and “studies” were all window-dressing to justify a decision that had already been made several years earlier. Meanwhile, people were still hoping, quite foolishly as it turned out, that it would be approved.
A large industrial project should go through a maximum one year process to assess it’s environmental concerns. It should then go to Parliament to pass a law to authorize terms of construction, declare it in the national interest, and notwithstanding the Charter of Rights plus require anyone taking the builders to court to post a bond equal to estimated damages for a delay in construction plus legal fees.
And those people included a lot of the natives living in the area whose concern had been that the pipeline would be build by imported labour without the chance of their being trained and put to work.
And the solution was to “postpone” the project for 20 years until there were enough natives who could work on it. Uh, no, it doesn’t take that long to train people to become tradesmen.
Stalling the project was the first shot in what would become the NEP.
If you make $40000. year you will soon be considered wealthy!
By the Liberals.
Trudeau wants to turn Canada into Cuba without the sun.
“Consider the case of France. After 12,000 millionaires fled France within a single year, President Emmanuel Macron, a former socialist finance minister, led a successful push to repeal France’s wealth tax. He saw how detrimental the tax was to the national economy. It had turned France into “Cuba without the sun,” and Macron declared it had to go. ”
A woke group is channeling their inner Democrat to show why everyone is racist. Or something. Incredibly unaware of what red-state America is like, some progressives score yet another own-goal by saying out loud what they belive in quiet, and think everyone else agrees with. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-absolutely-insane/
Back when PBS was still worth watching, more than 20 years ago, The American Experience presented a documentary on the Hoover Dam. Many of the people interviewed for it actually worked on the project or lived in the area.
It’s definitely worth watching if you can find it.
Ben Shapiro tells a student, in an audience that is surprisingly very supportive of Ben, why he doesn’t think it is hate speech to say there are only two genders. He says it in the clearest language. I like his analogy of his grandfather having paranoid schizophrenia, and Ben is grateful his doctors didn’t say “Nate, you’re fine. We believe the radio is actually talking to you” because, “That is not a service to him”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12FQ-Y1bhDY
A little Toronto moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_z5OSvcvwc
Not a cop’s kind of town eh Chicago?
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1524258460593926145/photo/1
Chicago shootings: 24 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend violence, CPD says
Another day another Black Sea Fleet ship hit:
https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/05/12/breaking-news-russian-logistics-ship-vsevolod-bobrov-catches-fire-at-sea/
Rukij korabl idi na chuj.
Taktochno.
Russian ship is fine.
It is being promoted to “Special Submarine Force”!
This one hasn’t been sunk … yet. However, considering the damage Black Sea Fleet sustained it is doubtful they’ll find funds to rebuild her. Same goes for the two Ropucha landing ships damaged in the attack that sunk the Aligator.
Conservative MP slams security officials for ignoring church burnings in 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uB_CdWmlrE
“Fully understandable”
Usual government lackey waffle and buck-passing.
Watching that video, made me wanna reach out through the screen and throttle those folks….each of whom taking at least $250,000 a year to say we don’t do or know shit.
I’m not surprised…
Still no PUBLIC enquiry over the Nova Scotia mass Murders…
What F’ing Joke.
SEPARATION – I cling to that as the only potential escape from CLOWN WORLD.
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they’ve been remotely disabled
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-farm-vehicles-ukraine-disabled-melitopol-intl/index.html
5 million dollars What were they two combines?
I think this story is overblown a bit.
You can already buy plug and play third party electronic control modules without John Deere’s bullshit in them to bypass their control over customers repairing the equipment.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard that. Good for the free market!
Yup. The idea that someone can make a software lock that cannot be overcome by a hardware fix (including hammer and crowbar) is laughable. New owner might need to replace several parts (like the starter and the fuel pump) with low-tech replacements, but disabling the polution controlls should actually decrease fuel burn by 5-10%.
I wonder if I post a story about a Ukrainian woman resting rape, would there be people explaining that if they held her right she would not be able to resist?
Sparky electric cars and their DANGEROUS chargers…
“…researchers cited in the report found numerous security flaws in EV chargers that allowed hackers to remotely switch the units on and off, remove the owner’s access to the charger, and lock or unlock the charging cable. They could also potentially steal a vehicle owner’s identity and use it to charge their own vehicles. The researchers also suggested that hackers could reprogram a charger to render it completely inoperative, or use it to attack other chargers; and if the charger is Wi-Fi connected, they could infiltrate the charging network and possibly the entire power grid, especially in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems in Europe that allow EV owners to send power back from their vehicles into the power grid.”
https://driving.ca/auto-news/technology-news/hackers-are-getting-into-ev-chargers-and-potentially-into-your-data-too
Ya know, I have 3 different 6/12 volt battery chargers, ranging in size from a little old 5 amp unit that’s probably 60 years old all the way up to a relatively new 250 amp booster. Also have a little trickle charger that maintains the Hawg’s battery throughout winter. None of them could care less about security, Wi-Fi, programming, networks, power grids or anything else. Plug ’em in & they just work. No attempts at world domination.
Curious, that.
Indeed.
Chris.
I am sooooo glad to be driving a vehicle with ZERO Connection to the internet.
Isn’t GM looking at RENTING Electronic key fobs now…? Buy a car but Access to the internal software is soon to become a monthly payment on top..??
I’m sure there are a few people who’ll be interested in this…..
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/12/why-get-dressed-when-there-are-software-pants/
Explains a lot.
Throwback Thursday: The Guy Who Once Sold His Own Driveway is Now Your President
https://www.diogenesmiddlefinger.com/2022/05/throwback-thursday-guy-who-once-sold.html
Further on the Cabbage in Chief.
Joe Biden Is Threatening Our Freedom of Movement
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/05/10/joe_biden_is_threatening_our_freedom_of_movement_831401.html
“Biden recently signed into law a requirement that all vehicles produced after 2026 be fitted with a remote kill switch. Electric vehicles are already equipped with this capability via internet-connected “superchargers.” These corporations can sell you a product for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, then prevent you from using them. Worse yet, if the law is not challenged or repealed, these kill switches will have a “back door” that allows government agencies to shut your vehicle off remotely as well.”
I’m sorry, DB. You’ve used up your mileage allotment for the month. Globull Warming & all that. [click] Or, I’m sorry, DB. You look like you’re heading to that protest in Sodom-On-The-Rideau. Das ist verboten. [click] Or, I’m sorry, DB. There’s a pandemic on. No travel allowed. [click] Or…
Biden Will “Address” the Baby Formula Shortage… By Giving a Statement Only to His Fervent Supporters in the Leftwing Propaganda Corporate Media, Who Will Then Spread the Propaganda to the Rubes
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399091.php
“No president wants to be personally associated with a scarcity in baby formula that may literally result in dead babies. (Dead babies beyond the intended number.)”
In light of the recent TGF regarding abortions, I guess I’m somewhat surprised at the left’s reluctance to associate themselves with death…
The Democrats’ solution to a shortage of baby food?
Post birth abortions.
I’d like to submit my long & distinguished list. Surely they won’t mind if there’s a coupla Canuck recommendations, too.
Not a surprise to anyone paying attention.
The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-evidence-keeps-pouring-in-showing-the-utter-failure-of-all-covid-mandates/
Although I would disagree with the following statement:
“Covid-19 vaccines are generally safe…Fact.”
Mostly safe.
Mostly peaceful.
Harmless (mostly).
I am reminded of Newt in Aliens who says ” they come out at night, mostly “.
The compassionate, intellectual, left.
Kindergartners sent home with masturbation assignment
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/kindergarteners-sent-home-with-masturbation?s=r
“Four-year-olds at an Alert Bay, British Columbia school were reportedly given this homework assignment on touching their private body parts. The worksheet asks students to draw pictures of places in their home where they can masturbate privately.”
So that’s what happened to a certain prime minister…..
Back in the day when things wouldn’t be put on hold because of a striped minnow.
Make cannabis legal, they said.
Then you could tax it and control it, they said.
It’s a license to print money, they said…
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/aurora-sky-facility-to-close-headquarters-to-remain-in-edmonton-1.5901035
“Aurora Sky Cannabis is closing its facility in Edmonton after reporting more than a $1 billion net loss in its most recent quarter.”
“The company blamed the net loss on pricing pressures exacerbated by temporary pot shop closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
from Wikipedia…
“Aurora Sky and Aurora Sun are Canadian cannabis growing greenhouses and among the world’s largest…
Aurora Sky is a 100,000 kg per year (220,000 pounds), 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m2) cannabis growing greenhouse on Edmonton International Airport property in Leduc County, Alberta. Construction on a 50% to 100% larger facility, Aurora Sun, in Medicine Hat, was “paused” in late 2019.”
Somewhere, in a basement, a hippie is laughing his a** off.
“When it was opened, the Aurora Sky facility was meant to be almost completely automated and would grow mid-tier flower, but the consumer “evolved” and developed more nuanced tastes that did not lend themselves to automation, said (Miguel Martin, Aurora CEO). Sky had to be retrofitted retroactively, but the needs and scale became “a bit of an impediment,” and eventually the company was losing a “significant” amount of money on the facility.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/aurora-cannabis-posts-1-billion-net-loss-in-q3-will-close-edmonton-facility-1.6451552
People didn’t want to pay premium prices (plus excessive taxes) to buy dry, musty weed?
Who’d a thunk it?
Didn’t his Nibbs Daddy say the same thing about having our very own gas stations, you know Petro Canada. “This can’t go wrong we will make billions” Then sold them all off at a huge loss.
Liberals get wealthy in Canadastan.
Soy scumbag is a trust fund baby.
” Justin’s paternal grandfather was a wealthy entrepreneur who at one time owned a string of gas stations that he transferred to Petrofina for a substantial amount of shares in their company.
Justin’s dad, Pierre, had the bright idea of creating the public oil company Petro-Canada in which the Canadian government subsequently bought out all of the shares in Petrofina Canada as well as BP Canada at top dollar, in order to create it.”
If the wind’s blowing in the right direction, you can smell it at the airport.
“Somewhere, in a basement, a hippie is laughing his a** off.”
Only the federal gov’t could take a cash crop like pot & go bankrupt with it. These are the same kinda idiots who couldn’t figger out how to erect a flag in the Ukraine.
Since Aurora opened, everytime I went past it on the way to YEG, (when I could actually board a plane) I would say, “How long before that goes bust?” (After they have given bucketloads of our money away first) Spouse started rolling their eye-balls as they got tired of hearing it. Everything the government gets involved in goes to sh..t.
Question of the day. Could you even build the Hoover Dam today?
The permitting would take longer to get than the concrete to harden (hint: 100 yrs).
Any large-scale construction project is subjected to being permitted to death. Often, it’s how the government scuttles them without overtly saying no.
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline endured the farce of the Berger inquiry only to produce a result that many of us already suspected that was what PET wanted. The whole process was rigged and the “consultations”, “input”, and “studies” were all window-dressing to justify a decision that had already been made several years earlier. Meanwhile, people were still hoping, quite foolishly as it turned out, that it would be approved.
A large industrial project should go through a maximum one year process to assess it’s environmental concerns. It should then go to Parliament to pass a law to authorize terms of construction, declare it in the national interest, and notwithstanding the Charter of Rights plus require anyone taking the builders to court to post a bond equal to estimated damages for a delay in construction plus legal fees.
And those people included a lot of the natives living in the area whose concern had been that the pipeline would be build by imported labour without the chance of their being trained and put to work.
And the solution was to “postpone” the project for 20 years until there were enough natives who could work on it. Uh, no, it doesn’t take that long to train people to become tradesmen.
Stalling the project was the first shot in what would become the NEP.
If you make $40000. year you will soon be considered wealthy!
By the Liberals.
Trudeau wants to turn Canada into Cuba without the sun.
“Consider the case of France. After 12,000 millionaires fled France within a single year, President Emmanuel Macron, a former socialist finance minister, led a successful push to repeal France’s wealth tax. He saw how detrimental the tax was to the national economy. It had turned France into “Cuba without the sun,” and Macron declared it had to go. ”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/jay-goldberg-ottawa-looking-at-a-wealth-tax-to-pay-for-soaring-spending/ar-AAXe6lW?li=AAgh0dA
Trudeau wants to turn Canada into Cuba without the sun.
I thought it already was. Worse yet, the comradeship isn’t warm, either (starting after 1:40):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsC2ETsZL0g
A message from Tanya Gaw, founder of Action 4 Canada:
https://rumble.com/vopudl-action4canada-a-message-from-tanya-gaw.html
Government and Media.
Nothing but lies.
Nothing.
And always the lies.
https://twitter.com/roccogalatilaw/status/1426544036882567169?cxt=HHwWgsCy7cmPjcwnAAAA
A woke group is channeling their inner Democrat to show why everyone is racist. Or something. Incredibly unaware of what red-state America is like, some progressives score yet another own-goal by saying out loud what they belive in quiet, and think everyone else agrees with.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-absolutely-insane/
Take that!
https://media.greatawakening.win/post/XW6lvnSjQFke.jpeg
Via Jo Nova
And
“Paper straw in a plastic wrap: the green movement in a single photo”
Late in the day, but a view on Putin from Israel.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/what-happened-to-russia-s-president-vladimir-putin/ar-AAXfh0q?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=94443e40f628427f8f8e932e3b4f65ff