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Occasional Reader
2/4/2023 8:10:05 AM
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I hope everyone isn’t dead for the global warming.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 10:14:21 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: I hope everyone isn’t dead for the global warming. It was a balmy -1 degrees or so when we got up High 16 today; 40+ tomorrow. Usually the downstairs is around 66-68, but the sun was warming the room with the thermostat (who puts a thermostat in the sun?) and was 60.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 10:18:07 AM
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Another reason for where everyone is, the Chinese Red Balloon took them away. (2 so far, another 97 to go) 99 Red Balloons
Floating o'er the US they spy Jukebox. Turn the captions on, and they are prophetic - I hope not, but...
The last verse of the song:
Ninety-nine dreams I have had
In every one, a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go...
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Occasional Reader
2/4/2023 10:18:33 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:
“ (who puts a thermostat in the sun?) ”
The same people who put “global warming” temp monitors in heat-trap areas like cities?
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 10:43:19 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: The same people who put “global warming” temp monitors in heat-trap areas like cities? THey have an agenda. I doubt the person who installed the thermostat wanted to freeze.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 10:50:58 AM
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So no one here is interested in ballooning? Biden is full of hot air.
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JCM
2/4/2023 11:30:32 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 7: If we shooting it down it might hit people! Over Montana? Seriously?
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JCM
2/4/2023 11:33:15 AM
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Homeless camps aren't a danger to the public. Fire breaks out at Seattle encampment under I-5 Data from the Seattle Fire Department shows last year they responded to 1,538 encampment-related fires. In 2021 that number was 1,446. I-5 is super critical in Seattle. A shut down of I-5 gridlocks the other arterials through town.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 12:20:19 PM
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Reply to JCM in 8: If we didn't detect the balloon 200 miles out, our air defense system is sorely lacking, and I doubt that it is. Shoot down over the ocean as soon as it enters US territory. Worried about big equipment boxes? Blow them up. Radar guided missile should break them into small enough pieces. Then let the balloon fly off until it bursts.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 3:13:59 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11: They claim that the balloon was prevented from sending data. How that was done, they did not say (with very good reason - if they can do it, then don't tell anyone who could figure out a way around it) I think they redireted its traffic to Hunter's laptop, which is safely hidden from the media/
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 3:15:30 PM
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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: I think they redireted its traffic to Hunter's laptop, which is safely hidden from the media/ I meant by the media
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JCM
2/4/2023 3:40:43 PM
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Some fighter jock gets to paint a red star on his plane!
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 4:19:31 PM
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So Verizon Wireless had $193 in charges for two lines that were activated but never worked, and issued $72 in credits. I supposedly will be getting the remaining $121 in a day or two. The acutal service is good; not 5G but 2-3x DSL and not flaky. After 2-3 days the device won't connect computers but a reboot solves that, and the DSL router needed reboots more frequently
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 4:20:53 PM
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In #14 JCM said: Some fighter jock gets to paint a red star on his plane! Or a red balloon. See above for the jukebox
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 4:41:03 PM
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Or did the balloon carry tons of COVID-23 spores?
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Occasional Reader
2/4/2023 6:08:55 PM
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And I am home in DC, after a pretty, smooth flight. But one thing I noticed is that peoples’ matters on commercial flights have deteriorated in these last couple of years. The requirements regarding safely or completely ignored. People were switching on their phones and yammering away as we were on approach to DCA. The woman behind me had turned on her phone to talk to her fucking dog. Ridiculous.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/4/2023 6:22:32 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 18: For phones, we've found they don't interfere with the avionics the way was feared (or the way they used to - modern phones are different) As for the rest of it, a general deterioration in politeness. But really, everything needs to be stowed for takeoff and landing for safety.
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