vxbush 5/13/2024 5:44:11 AM

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In Saturday's #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Trying to write some game that uses perspective images, so drawings I made can be walls, floor, ceiling, and it looks in perspective. This uses python, cv2, tkinter (geeky stuff) But it does not reliably work - sometimes fine, sometimes part of images show up in the wrong place. This indicaes to me tkinter or cv2 (probably tkinter) is not clearing data when it should. So that was my first question on stackoverflow. I know only vxbush would appreciate this, but I had to post it.

vxbush 5/13/2024 5:47:54 AM

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Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets

I'm sure the leftists will love this. He felt comfortable enough to tweet this--and then followed it up a day later by saying folks were interpreting it "the wrong way." 

Not too many ways to misunderstand your meaning there, professor. 

This "climate catastrophe" nonsense needs to be the thing to die. Not humans. 

vxbush 5/13/2024 5:56:59 AM

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Lifting straight from PJMedia: 

• "Mostly peaceful protests" call for the execution of university personnel.
• What starts with hunger strikes over at Princeton turns into a "Marxist claptrap" at UPenn.
• Jews are basically January 6 "insurrectionists," according to the Los Angeles mayor.
• Gay men can't qualify as "infertile" in NYC so, naturally, they sue for IVF coverage. --I just can't even fathom people making this argument. 

vxbush 5/13/2024 6:03:05 AM

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San Francisco Giving Homeless Vodka, Courtesy of Taxpayers

Clearly all I need to do is start claiming I'm homeless and I'll get all sorts of goodies.

vxbush 5/13/2024 6:12:39 AM

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Late on this news, but it's a good start: 

On Monday, Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 189, a new voting reform bill that mandates the counting and reporting of all absentee ballots on Election Night. The legislation is the latest election integrity bill aimed at securing Georgia's election procedures. According to WSBTV, the new law also "makes it illegal for members of the State Board of Elections, the Sec. of State, county or municipal superintendents or registrars, as well as any full-time, part-time or contract workers in elections-related roles to provide goods or services to the state related to voting equipment or vote tabulation, auditing or processing, as well as scanning ballots."

Quoting from the source article (bolding mine): 

Additionally, SB 189 allows candidates to qualify as presidential electors so long as their political party or political body has gotten on the ballot in at least 20 states, receiving access to Georgia ballots.

Under the bill’s provisions, as related to elections, homeless individuals without a permanent address will have their mailing address for elections set as the registrar’s office of their county of residence by default.

The bill also created new ways to challenge the voting eligibility of registered voters based on several criteria.

SB 189 makes it so that having proof of owning or renting a post office box or private mailbox service in a particular voting jurisdiction will no longer count as proof of residency as it relates to voting.

Individuals who register to vote in another state, county, municipality or legislative district of any type, it will be recorded as changing residency. If the individual then returns to their original residence after voting or registering to vote elsewhere, the state will require they update their registration in order to be considered a valid resident and elector for voting purposes.

Occasional Reader 5/13/2024 6:21:48 AM

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Good morning.

So actor Steve Buscemi was randomly punched in the face while walking in NYC in broad daylight on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69002525

“The suspect is still at large and police released a description.

Occasional Reader 5/13/2024 7:09:29 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

The story appears to have been updated with a photo of the actual suspect (originally, Buscemi's photo was there, no suspect photo).   Well, that's progress, I guess. 

vxbush 5/13/2024 8:17:56 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: The story appears to have been updated with a photo of the actual suspect (originally, Buscemi's photo was there, no suspect photo).   Well, that's progress, I guess. 

I wonder if the actor was able to give a description to a police artist. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/13/2024 8:22:57 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 7:

Reply to vxbush in 8:

No mention in the "description" of the attacker's age, his facial hair, or his skin tone?  How (not) useful.

Occasional Reader 5/13/2024 9:01:20 AM

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In #8 vxbush said: I wonder if the actor was able to give a description to a police artist. 

Well, as noted, the story has been updated with a photo, so that's even better. 

Occasional Reader 5/13/2024 9:02:03 AM

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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: his facial hair

The updated version with the photo shows he has a beard.

And that can only mean one thing:  Amish. 

vxbush 5/13/2024 9:09:45 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: And that can only mean one thing:  Amish. 

Sneaky Amishes!

/gollum

JCM 5/13/2024 9:35:21 AM

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Hijinks in WA State gubernatorial politics.

2 Democratic candidates named Bob Ferguson join WA governor's race to 'confuse voters'

While I don't condone such things, I do find it humorous. Dems out right steal elections in WA, and Sideshow Bob is as corrupt as they come. The irony of Sideshow complaining about an assault on "democracy" is delicious.

buzzsawmonkey 5/13/2024 11:56:38 AM

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Reply to JCM in 13:

Re: "Bob Ferguson"; there's an old Jewish joke about a guy who goes into a store whose proprietor is named "Shane Ferguson."  He meets the proprietor, who appears to not only be not-Irish, but an Orthodox Jew.  "You're Shane Ferguson?" asks the incredulous customer.  "Yes," says the proprietor.  "When I came to this country, everyone on the boat said, "It's a new country, take a new name.  So, I chose a new name, but when I spoke to the immigration official I was so nervous I couldn't remember it, so I said to him, 'Sh'ayn fergessen ["I forgot!" in Yiddish]!" So, he entered my name as Shane Ferguson."

vxbush 5/13/2024 12:14:59 PM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: So, I chose a new name, but when I spoke to the immigration official I was so nervous I couldn't remember it, so I said to him, 'Sh'ayn fergessen ["I forgot!" in Yiddish]!" So, he entered my name as Shane Ferguson."

Heh. That's great. 

Occasional Reader 5/13/2024 1:04:50 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

CULTURAL APPOPRIATION!   HOW DARE (((YOU PEOPLE)))!!!

vxbush 5/13/2024 1:43:19 PM

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Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold On Tight Supply

Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall. Spot prices at the North Hub, which includes Dallas, jumped to more than $3,000 a megawatt-hour just before 7 p.m. local time, versus about $32 at the same time Tuesday, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. This morning, Ercot, as the state's main grid operator is known, issued a "watch" for a potential capacity reserve shortage from about 7-9 p.m., meaning the buffer of spare supplies could fall to low enough levels to call on back-up generation, cancel or delay outages or curb usage.