THOT's gangbanger's ball NYE 2022!!

 

If you don't turn that up. You'll never live it down.

-THOT. and Hangry Kittie......LOL. xoxox.

‘Tis the Season!

 

Post your Christmas songs, classic, parody or rock and Merry Christmas everyone!

-Drifter

Covert Paul's Funny Animal Memes Contest. Holiday special.

 

Total war!

#memewar2022

Lol

Hi meme warriors,

The rules.

This is a contest. A mighty mean meme war like no other!! The winner gets their image into the top spot in the OP. And bragging rights. The losers go home. Beaten broken and bawling. One more thing. @sagegrousecommunity will choose the winner Sunday. Once a winner has been chosen. Any MOD can feature a runner up.

No more rules.

Make no mistake. This is the no holds barred, shock -N- awe, ground and pound. Damn the torpedoes full steam ahead. Give me liberty or give me death. Aces high dogfight. Do or die. Poke in the eye. Take no prisoners. Trench warfare of all the meme wars. This is the one you've been waiting for. This is i, Brian in the Park's, Funny animal memes contest at Covert Paul's blog. There can be only one supreme meme. Make sure it's yours.

Tonight's theme. Funny pet's home for the holiday's.

Winner picked Sunday afternoon PST.

Lol cya Coverter's.

Anybody have any good mid week recipes?

 

Like one pan? Or something simple like that?

~Brian

25 Quick Wednesday Night Dinner Ideas - Insanely Good (insanelygoodrecipes.com)

THOT's gangbanger's ball

 

Imma need a new intro. MEH. Imma need all kitties!

If you don't turn that up. You'll never live it down.

-THOT. and Hangry Kittie......LOL. xoxox.

What The Top Of Mount Stupid Looks Like

 From the beginning my gut feeling told e to avoid cryptocurrency and I’m glad I did. For those of you who didn’t and lost money in it this video probably won’t cheer you up.

-Drifter

Disappearing Upvote Disqus Exploit --> Upvotes Can be Restored

 20221119 Shep as Author

Disqus All Star Harvey Rabbit has shared his understanding about an annoying issue with the platform.

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https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-discussdisqus/missing_upvotes_bug_reports_feedback/

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DISCUSS DISQUS Moderator Anna B has expressed a willingness to backfill the missing disqus upvotes.

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Many disqus commenters, myself included, are unable to comment on DISCUSS DISQUS.  In my case DISCUSS DISQUS moderator Kandrick has attempted twice to unban my account on the channel but has informed me that there is some technical reason this cannot be done.

Given these circumstances, and that the thread where Anna B was generously responding to requests to backfill upvotes has been closed, I want to offer this thread as a way to reach out to Anna B with your request to have your upvotes restored.  

For those of you who don't know how to tag someone to a disqus thread, type the following into the comment section below:

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After typing this, while still in the same post, follow with your written request for Anna to backfill your upvotes.

THOT's gangbanger's ball

 

Thinking about updating the image? 

Halloween theme here in Muh ballroom. 

If you don't turn that up. You'll never live it down.

-THOT. and Hangry Kittie......LOL. Xoxox.

Covert Paul's Funny Animal Memes Contest.

Here is the winning meme by AriesTonto.

I choose to make it a four way tie for the theme win. Way too much going on so for now. There are a group of King of memes. 

PAUL! will pick and feature the runner up below. 

Thanks.

~Brian

 

Total war!

#memewar2022

Lol

Hi meme warriors,

The rules.

This is a contest. A mighty mean meme war like no other!! The winner gets their image into the top spot in the OP. And bragging rights. The losers go home. Beaten broken and bawling. One more thing. @sagegrousecommunity will choose the winner. Once a winner has been chosen. Any MOD can feature a runner up.

No more rules.

Make no mistake. This is the no holds barred, shock -N- awe, ground and pound. Damn the torpedoes full steam ahead. Give me liberty or give me death. Aces high dogfight. Do or die. Poke in the eye. Take no prisoners. Trench warfare of all the meme wars. This is the one you've been waiting for. This is i, Brian in the Park's, Funny animal memes contest at Covert Paul's blog. There can be only one supreme meme. Make sure it's yours.

Theme.

I was looking for inspiration for todays meme war. I googled funny animals. I found a funny animal cartoons were a thing in newspapers way back. I also got some videos on the top of the page. Three dogs. Two cows. and a cat. Whoever posts the best three dogs, two cows, and a cat before Monday will be the winner.

Winner picked Monday afternoon PST.

Lol cya Coverter's.

‘As bad as its gets’: Joe Biden slips up again

Nasa Dart spacecraft successfully smashes into asteroid - BBC News

Trans Teacher Wears INSANE Fake Breasts

A Canadian school district is standing behind a male teacher wearing massive 

prosthetic breasts.

CNN's Don Lemon 'schooled' by UK scholar after demanding King Charles III pay 'reparations'

CNN Host Don Lemon 'schooled' by a British Royal commentator on the history of 

slavery after suggesting King Charles III spends his inherited wealth on 'reparations'

Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022

 

A tribute to The Queen written by Claire Lenman the founding editor of Quillette.

-Drifter

During World War II, Princess Elizabeth rolled up her sleeves and learned how to fix a car. She had enrolled in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a driver and mechanic for the British army. She was appointed an honorary junior commander at just 19 years of age.

While she remained stationed in Britain, this practical training, and her attitude of pitching in at a time of national need, transformed into a lifelong fulfilment of duty to her country. Despite all the pomp and ceremony, and underneath all of her regalia, she always remained in spirit a humble servant for the national cause.

 

Her service lasted seven decades. Seven years longer than Queen Victoria, the second longest reign of a monarch.

There's not much I can say about Queen Elizabeth that has not already been said. The obituaries published around the world today provide a rich and detailed history documenting her contributions over nine decades of life and seven decades of reign.

Her death represents the loss of a generation, a set of values, and a way of life. Queen Elizabeth II reigned during a period of remarkable stability and peace, but also during a time in which duty and self-sacrifice were considered the highest of virtues. Her dedication to her role, and her example of selfless action encapsulate ideals that were unique to her formative years, and that are now, for the most part, fading away.

We do not have to be British to admire the Queen's dutiful service to her country. We do not have to be monarchists to appreciate her beneficent rule. And we do not have to be conservative to recognise that her lifetime of service is worthy of the deepest respect and admiration.

Queen Elizabeth II is admired for many things, one of them being her courage.There is, perhaps, no greater example of leaning in than that of the Queen, thrust into immortal responsibility, the weight of a nation, and empire on her shoulders at age 25. She showed us all what leadership and dedication truly is.

THOT's Gangbanger's Ball

 

Imma need a new intro. MEH. Imma need all kitties!

If you don't turn that up. You'll never live it down.

-THOT. and Hangry Kittie......LOL. xoxox.

Are Wormholes a Dead End for Faster-Than-Light Travel?

 

This article is from Paul Sutter, an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University. It will not come as good news for science fiction fans and screenwriters   but I found it to be a good read. Enjoy!

-Drifter

Ah, wormholes. The intergalactic shortcut. A tunnel through space-time that allows intrepid travelers to hop from star system to star system without ever coming close to the speed of light. 

Wormholes are a workhorse of sci-fi interstellar civilizations in books and on the screen because they solve the annoying problem of "Well, if we stuck to known physics, 99.99999 percent of the story would be as fascinating as watching people sleep."

But could we do it? Could we actually warp and bend space-time to make a convenient tunnel, making all of our galactic dreams come true?

Short answer: not likely. 

Long answer: Well, keep reading.

BEWARE THE WHITE HOLE

The concept of wormholes got its start when physicist Ludwig Flamm, and later Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, realized that black holes can be "extended." When one goes about solving the fantastically complicated equations of general relativity, the machinery that predicts a black hole also predicts a phenomenon called a white hole. A white hole is pretty much what you think: Whereas a black hole's event horizon marks a region of space that once you enter you can't leave, it's impossible to enter a white hole's horizon, although anything already in there can escape. 

That same mathematical machinery delivers a bonus, too: All black holes would be naturally "connected" to white holes via their singularities, making a tunnel through space. Woohoo, wormholes here we go!

Or not. While we have gobs of evidence for the existence of black holes, white holes appear to be mathematical fiction. There's no known process in our universe that would actually form them, and even if they did pop into existence, their natural extreme instability would snuff them right out again

Oh, yeah, and the mechanism for making black holes the collapse of massive stars—also automatically prevents the formation of a symbiotic white hole.

And even if they did form (and they don't), the extreme gravity of the mutual singularities would cause the wormhole tunnel to immediately stretch and snap much more quickly than anything could cross it.

DEATH BY WORMHOLE

But that doesn't stop anybody from playing a fun game of "what if." What if white holes could naturally form, or be constructed? What if we could stabilize them? What if we could attach a white hole's singularity to a black hole and make a wormhole? What if? What if? What if?

 

Well, for one thing, traveling down such a wormhole would really, really suck. Literally. The entrance to the wormhole—the "throat"—sits inside the event horizon of the black hole. 

That's a problem.

 

The very definition of an event horizon—their very cosmique raison d'etre — is that once you enter them, you don't get to come out. No way, no how. It doesn't matter if there's a wormhole tunnel inside it—you don't get to leave.

Inside a black hole event horizon, you have only one destination: singularity town, the place of infinite density and soul-crushing gravitational forces. 

So let's say you enter a wormhole. You can watch light from another patch of the universe filter in from the opposite side. If someone else jumps in, you can meet them and have some tea together. And you can die—miserably—as you careen into the singularity.

 

POSITIVELY NEGATIVE

Is there any way to make a working, even fun, wormhole, instead of a terrifying portal to inevitable destruction? 

Surprisingly, yes. Well, not quite 100 percent absolutely "this is a normal part of our universe" yes. More like "if we play pretend" yes.

To construct a traversable wormhole, you need to overcome two important obstacles. First, the entrance to the wormhole has to actually sit outside the event horizon. That would allow you to enter the wormhole and blast through it to your faraway destination without fearing a "singular" encounter.

Second, the tunnel itself has to be stable and strong. It has to withstand the extreme gravity of the singularities and resist tearing apart when something flies down its length.

There is indeed a material that solves both problems. But that material has a problem all its own: It has negative mass.

That's right: mass, but negative. A ring of negative-mass material could be used to construct a fully functional and useful wormhole. Since the exotic nature of negative mass warps spacetime in a unique way, it "inflates" the entrance to the wormhole outside the boundary of the event horizon, and stabilizes the throat of the wormhole against instabilities. It’s not an intuitive result but the math checks out.

But could such a substance exist? We've mapped out a good chunk of the universe, and we've never seen negative mass. If it did exist, it would have some pretty weird properties. For example, following the math of Newton’s Laws with some minus signs tossed in, we find that a negative-mass particle would push on a positive-mass particle, while the positive-mass particle would pull on the negative-mass one. Set two opposite-mass particles next to each other, perfectly still, and the pair would start accelerating, zooming off without any input of force.

 

That seems like that might violate some sort of rule. 

 

What about the Casimir effect, the odd and fascinating attraction of two metal plates due to vacuum energy? That’s often trotted out as an example of the universe behaving badly, and a possible route to negative mass. But the Casimir force is characterized by local negative pressure (it pulls rather than pushes), not negative mass.Sure, we don't know everything there is to know about quantum gravity and the nature of space-time at super-duper-teensy scales. Could an advanced civilization discover the path to negative mass and manipulate gravity in just the right way? Would a breakthrough in physics point a way to fashioning wormholes?

Honestly, probably not. There are just too many things working against them. Working wormholes would violate so many aspects about known (and extremely well tested) physics that I think it's better to just work on other problems.

I know some people might accuse me of not being creative enough, but the universe doesn't care about our creativity. The tools of science are harsh but fair judges; if an idea doesn't work, it simply doesn't work. There are many varied and beautiful mysteries in our universe, and we certainly haven't unlocked all of the inner workings of the cosmos. But wormholes probably aren't one of them. 

 

Thank you and farewell young Logan Taylor.

 

Temporary street closures for firefighter Logan Taylor’s funeral procession

By Nick Borden August 29, 2022

MEDFORD, Ore. – The funeral procession for a local firefighter who passed away after an incident on The Rum Creek Fire happening on August 29th.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Medford Police Department, and Oregon State Police will escort a procession for Logan Taylor at 9 am.

Taylor, a 25-year-old from Talent was contracted to fight the fire. He died when a tree fell on him on August 18th. Police say the procession and temporary street closures will begin promptly at 9 am.

Areas affected include Barnett Road from Alba Drive to Stewart Avenue. Stewart Avenue from Barnett Road to Riverside Avenue. And Riverside Avenue from Stewart Avenue to Highway 99 to Lowry Lane.

Officers say they are honored to escort Logan Ralor and his family.

“Anytime a fellow brother, firefighter, or law enforcement official passes away, it’s something that we train for. It’s very honorable for us to be able to help and we are glad to do so,” said SGT. John Richmond with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.   

Governor Kate Brown has ordered all flags at Oregon Public Institutions to be flown at half-staff on Monday for Taylor.

The memorial service is open to the public at Harry and David’s baseball field.

Link.

Temporary street closures for firefighter Logan Taylor's funeral procession - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2 (kobi5.com)

Link to fire story. 

SW Oregon wildfire grows rapidly, destroys several structures (msn.com)

Escherichia coli + Wendy's = 38 people hospitalized

 

MEREDITH DELISO

Thu, August 25, 2022 at 4:29 PM·3 min read

A multi-state E. coli outbreak associated with romaine lettuce in sandwiches from Wendy's has grown, with dozens more infections reported in the past week, according to federal health officials.

Since Aug. 17, when the outbreak was first publicized, 55 more illnesses in the outbreak have been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- bringing the total number of reported infections to 84, the agency said Thursday.

Among those, 38 people have been hospitalized, including eight people in Michigan who have a type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome, the CDC said. No deaths have been reported so far.

The infections have been reported to the CDC from four states: Michigan (53); Ohio (23); Indiana (six); and Pennsylvania (two).

PHOTO: RRomaine lettuce is displayed at a store in a stock photo. (Natissima/iStockphoto via Getty Images)

CDC investigators are working to confirm the source of the outbreak, though many of those who became sick reported eating at Wendy's, the CDC said.

"A specific food has not yet been confirmed as the source of this outbreak, but many sick people reported eating sandwiches with romaine lettuce at Wendy's restaurants in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania before getting sick," the CDC said in its notice.

Among 62 people interviewed by investigators, 52 of them (84%) reported eating at a Wendy's the week before they became sick, the CDC said. Of 17 people with detailed information about what they ate there, 15 (88%) reported eating romaine lettuce served on burgers and sandwiches.

As a precaution, the fast food chain has removed the romaine lettuce used in sandwiches from restaurants in that region. A different type of romaine lettuce is used in salads.

In a statement on its website Friday, Wendy's confirmed that it was "fully cooperating with public health authorities on their ongoing investigation of the regional E. coli outbreak reported in certain midwestern states," adding that it was "taking the precaution of discarding and replacing the sandwich lettuce at some restaurants in that region."

"The lettuce that we use in our salads is different, and is not affected by this action. As a company, we are committed to upholding our high standards of food safety and quality," the statement read.

The CDC is not advising that people stop eating at Wendy's or to stop eating romaine lettuce in general.

"At this time, there is no evidence to indicate that romaine lettuce sold in grocery stores, served in other restaurants, or in people's homes is linked to this outbreak," the CDC said.

Most people infected with E. coli experience severe stomach cramps, vomiting and often bloody diarrhea, which typically start three to four days after ingesting the bacteria.

The CDC is urging people to call their health care provider immediately if they have severe symptoms, such as diarrhea for more than three days, diarrhea and a fever higher than 102 degrees, vomiting to the point where you can't keep liquids down and signs of dehydration.

Most recover without treatment within a week, though some people may develop kidney failure.

Link

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/e-coli-outbreak-linked-wendys-232900867.html

How many times have you been mistreated while shopping at Walmart? Plus, do nothing police.

A Black customer was awarded $4.4 million in damages in racial profiling lawsuit against Walmart

Amy Simonson - Yesterday 8:48 PM

A jury in Oregon awarded a Black man $4.4 million in damages after he claimed in a lawsuit that a White Walmart employee racially profiled him while shopping and tried to have law enforcement act on false charges, according to court documents.

Michael Mangum was awarded $400,000 in non-economic damages and $4 million in punitive damages Friday, according to a news release issued by his attorney Sunday.

Walmart told CNN in a written statement that it does not tolerate discrimination and that the verdict is “excessive” and not supported by evidence.

“Mr. Mangum was never stopped by Walmart’s Asset Protection. He interfered with our associates as they were surveilling and then stopped confirmed shoplifters, and then refused to leave despite being asked to repeatedly by our staff and Multnomah County deputies,” according to spokesperson Randy Hargrove. “We are reviewing our options including post-trial motions.”

Mangum, who was 59 at the time, went to a Walmart in Wood Village, Oregon, on March 26, 2020, to look for a light bulb for his refrigerator, his attorney said in the news release.

“Noticing that he was under surveillance by a Walmart loss prevention employee, Mangum objected, believing he was racially profiled,” the release said.

The employee ordered Mangum to leave the store, but Mangum refused, according to the release,

The employee said he “would call the police and tell them that Mangum had threatened to smash him in the face,” the release said.

Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the store but did not take action against Mangum due to “shifting explanations as to why the employee called” and because of the employee’s reputation for making false reports to police, the attorney said in the news release.

In a deposition clip given to CNN by Mangum’s attorney, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Shift Cmdr. Sgt. Bryan White said he and deputies on his shift had become “extremely frustrated with a pattern of behavior that they had identified” in the employee calling 911 to report “dangerous active situations such as customers physically assaulting him or loss prevention employees or other Walmart employees while trying to steal and then the deputies determining that that never actually happened.”

Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese told CNN in a statement that his agency treats people with dignity and respect.

“Our Deputies have a fair and balanced approach to criminal investigations. I am pleased with how our members responded and assessed the allegations being made in this situation. They recognized inconsistencies in the caller’s report and in past interactions,” he said.

Lawsuit claims discrimination, harassment

Mangum’s lawsuit claims that the employee called law enforcement with the intent to, “unlawfully discriminate against” him.

The lawsuit also alleges that the employee’s call was intended to make Mangum feel harassed, humiliated, or embarrassed as well as cause him to suffer damage to his reputation or standing within the community.

It also claimed that the employee’s actions intended to cause Mangum to be expelled from Walmart where he was lawfully allowed to be.

As a result, Mangum “suffered, continues to suffer, and may permanently suffer from embarrassment, fear, humiliation, anger, and indignity,” the complaint said.

Mangum’s trial attorney, Greg Kafoury, said had law enforcement acted on the employee’s claims, Mangum’s jobs would have been at risk had he been charged with a crime, according to a statement.

He added that Mangum refused to be intimidated by the employee’s “lies and bullying.”

“Because of his courage, we were able to show the jury an unconscionable failure of responsibility by the world’s largest corporation,” Kafoury said in the statement.

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A Black customer was awarded $4.4 million in damages in racial profiling lawsuit against Walmart (msn.com)