Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 6:46:27 AM

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Palm Sunday meets ROPMA:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56553790

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 7:05:03 AM

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lucius septimius 3/28/2021 7:07:40 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

Next week will be awful.

lucius septimius 3/28/2021 7:10:46 AM

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Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 7:12:50 AM

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Entrepreneur offers to build out free internet for poor San Fran residents; city government shuts him down, because they see no political angle to it:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/03/28/wow-chris-saccas-thread-on-trying-to-give-san-francisco-free-internet-access-shows-just-how-jaw-droppingly-corrupt-their-leaders-are/

JCM 3/28/2021 7:47:21 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:

Tell the supes they could control the flow of information and they would have loved it. Once again (D)s show they are about ruling.

doppelganglander 3/28/2021 7:59:49 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 4:

Anyone who didn't see this coming is an idiot. The next couple of years are going to be a nightmare. I think we should focus on getting rid of the unconstitutional changes to election laws, especially HR 1 if it passes. If we can't retake retake Congress in '22, we are likely to lose the Republic completely. 

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 8:18:47 AM

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In #6 JCM said: Tell the supes they could control the flow of information

Supe Nazis!

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 9:03:40 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

I once heard a talk by someone from Pakistan who converted from Islam to Judaism. I will use the gender-neutral pronouns here so I do not give much info about this person.

This talk was shortly after a bombing of an Easter celebration in Pakistan. Zhe said that there was a time where zhe would have been a suicide bomber, such was the way people are brought up in Pakistan.

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 9:13:16 AM

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ROTC Cadets Wearing Heels for Sexual Assault Awareness Spurs Review

The Army's Cadet Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is reviewing Reserve Officer Training Command cadet participation in a sexual assault awareness 5K walk/run event in which cadets at Temple University in Philadelphia wore high-heeled shoes with their uniforms.

The Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event was one of the major observances for the 2015 Sexual Assault Awareness Month, with cities and towns across the U.S. and Canada hosting the walk/run.

Back in 2015!

JCM 3/28/2021 9:29:46 AM

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As part of the toy train they are putting pedestrian bridge from a station across I-5 to a community college.

The design phase of this cost a mere $30 million.

This is the result.

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 9:32:48 AM

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Reply to JCM in 11:

So I assume it’s being made out of solid platinum?

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 9:43:50 AM

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Reply to JCM in 11:

I would hope there are CAD drawings and specs, too, not just a picture.

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 9:54:12 AM

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They've been doing construction near the Concord rotary on Rt. 2 in Massachusetts. I thought it was for the long-needed redesign to prevent the 20 minute or more backups at the rotary (pre-COVID).

Nope. Looks like they're building an overpass to make one long BIKE trail.

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 9:55:45 AM

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Site glitch was server update. I got into the hosting company's site to get the message they were doing server maintenance, which might cause a short interruption.

Then the site was back.

JCM 3/28/2021 9:56:14 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13:

I haven't seen the bridge cost. Last year there was actually journalism done and at that point they had spent $30 M on just the design phase the proposals, the decision process. All before the actual design was selected.

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 10:06:39 AM

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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: Nope. Looks like they're building an overpass to make one long BIKE trail.

Two wheels GOOD!

Four wheels BAAAAD!

-The Sheep

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 10:07:40 AM

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In #17 JCM said: $30 M on just the design phase

Well, you see how the cars are blurred in that pic, suggesting they're in motion?

That's ART, baby.  And art costs money.  

JCM 3/28/2021 10:26:07 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 19:

Oh art!

All that design and they come up with a simple arch?

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 11:07:39 AM

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In #20 JCM said: a simple arch?

Nobel prizes all around!

JCM 3/28/2021 11:46:34 AM

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lucius septimius 3/28/2021 1:20:33 PM

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Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 1:32:35 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 23:

It is literally a mass lynching,

Occasional Reader 3/28/2021 1:34:41 PM

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lucius septimius 3/28/2021 1:47:19 PM

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In #25 Occasional Reader said:  do shell casings count?

If you load your own ammo, sure.

Kosh's Shadow 3/28/2021 1:58:51 PM

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In #25 Occasional Reader said: we were supposed to be collecting all sorts of things during this past week to recycle. I wonder,  do shell casings count?

Well, metal objects do get recycled well. In fact, over half the ferrous metal used in the US is recycled, because with modern equipment, it produces quite good metal, and can be done in an electric mini-mill on site where the metal is used.

Brass, copper, aluminum, also recycle well.

Glass, fairly well. The quality isn't as good but quite suitable for many products.

Plastic, less so, but there are some products that can be made with recycled plastic. And Israel has figured out how to make recyclable plastic from trash (including dirty diapers!)

Recycling paper, that is, post-consumer paper as opposed to scrap during the paper production process, is not efficient and the output product is not as good. 

Note the best materials to recycle are those that are recycled at high temperature, which reduces problems with impurities. (Got some plastic in with the steel? It pretty much gets reduced to carbon, which is used in the steelmaking process.) Same with glass, but carbon in the glass is an impurity, so the quality isn't as good.

lucius septimius 3/28/2021 3:09:40 PM

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