Rant for the Day (keep it clean)

[Magus]

Biden needs a blanket party.
USMC Yoho style.

 

[AMC]

My grandpa passed away.

 

[Pearl]

My grandpa passed away.

I'm sorry!!

 

[Amish Heart]

That's terribly sad, AMC. I'm sorry.

 

[Peepaw from Tex]

Sorry to hear about your loss.

 

[Amish Heart]

My rant today would be Trump's Stargate Data Centers. Wow.

 

[Weedygarden]

My grandpa passed away.

I'm sorry. That is not good.

 

[Haertig]

My grandpa passed away.

I am sorry to hear this. My prayers for you and your family to find comfort after your loss.

 

[Pearl]

My rant today would be Trump's Stargate Data Centers. Wow.

It would put the US in front of all other countries for computing and AI! No more China hacks, cheaper Internet, better Internet! AT&T won't be charging hundreds a month for Internet! It will bring jobs and control! If we don't have it.... someone else will!

 

[Amish Heart]

Be careful what you wish for.

It would put the US in front of all other countries for computing and AI! No more China hacks, cheaper Internet, better Internet! AT&T won't be charging hundreds a month for Internet! It will bring jobs and control! If we don't have it.... someone else will!

This may not be a good thing at all. If you are not a Bible reading person, I suggest you start.

 

[Pearl]

Be careful what you wish for.

This may not be a good thing at all. If you are not a Bible reading person, I suggest you start.

I see your point, but technology will not stop!! It's a competitive world, AI will be a part of life, let's be number 1!!

 

[Neb]

Be careful what you wish for.

This may not be a good thing at all. If you are not a Bible reading person, I suggest you start.

100 billion is about 8 eight aircraft carriers.

The first country to achieve artificial super intelligence will have an advantage over other countries in future war fair.

Will this $100B return $500B ?

Not clear.

Curious about your objection.

Ben

 

[Patchouli]

Being associated with haters. Yesterday I was surprised to see my mid 60s in-law going ballistic on social media over her personal loss in DC. Says she hates him. So ugly, like a temper tantrum from from a petty tyrant. As if anyone cares, and a few do. I think we were both surprised that the majority of old high school friends we have in common were not on the losing side. So many in fact, that she’d be pulverized into the ground if she kept going off about it. And after awhile everyone ignores her. Such rage. Just ugly.

 

[zannej]

It's down to 19°F so the pipes froze. Ugh. I'm hoping it will warm up enough for them to thaw out, but I do have some 5 gallon buckets filled with water inside so we can flush the toilets by dumping some water down the bowls. Really hoping nothing ruptured. PEX tends to be forgiving but this is the coldest its gotten since we installed PEX. I'd wanted my friend to put those foam pipe sleeves on when he was installing stuff but he said it could wait and then never got to it. Can't really blame him though. I hope his waterlines didn't freeze.

 

[OldSchool]

For a weather related rant: I have to clip my dog's toenails for the first time. No concrete to wear them down like normal. -6 degrees here, the snow is hurting her feet.

Gotta order clippers on line with next day delivery or pay twice as much at local store. /rant

 

[Patchouli]

For a weather related rant: I have to clip my dog's toenails for the first time. No concrete to wear them down like normal. -6 degrees here, the snow is hurting her feet.

Gotta order clippers on line with next day delivery or pay twice as much at local store. /rant

We used to run or walk our dog a lot on the street, road, sidewalk, etc. and her nails stayed at a good length. Now she's older and sometimes very stubborn about going much of anywhere. Just got her nails clipped a couple weeks ago and they said she behaved real well for it! We can't even hardly get her to let us examine her feet! Maybe they wear peanut butter and bacon grease hats so she can lick it off while they're trimming.

 

[OldSchool]

We used to run or walk our dog a lot on the street, road, sidewalk, etc. and her nails stayed at a good length. Now she's older and sometimes very stubborn about going much of anywhere. Just got her nails clipped a couple weeks ago and they said she behaved real well for it! We can't even hardly get her to let us examine her feet! Maybe they wear peanut butter and bacon grease hats so she can lick it off while they're trimming.

I'd happily pay a groomer if I knew all would go well. She lets me check her feet and she's generally good at the vet, unless other dogs are there. She has what I call animal aggression issues. That and she always gets too excited there. I'm tempted to ask a neighbor lady to help. She loves my dog and likes me, it's mutual. But, she's married.... so.... not going there. One of these days though in warmer whether when I see her more, walking and she stops to visit and give my dog attention - I'm gonna ask her if she'd care for my dog if something happens to me, or maybe dog-sit if I wanna take a vacation or go out of town for a few days.

 

[Patchouli]

We don’t mess with groomers either, we go to the vet for it. She freaks out and is not easy to handle. Good luck.

 

[Amish Heart]

My what the heck rant...
just reading that the three Israeli hostages that were released had been held at one point in their 400 something days in a UN camp in Gaza.

 

[sonya123]

We used to run or walk our dog a lot on the street, road, sidewalk, etc. and her nails stayed at a good length. Now she's older and sometimes very stubborn about going much of anywhere. Just got her nails clipped a couple weeks ago and they said she behaved real well for it! We can't even hardly get her to let us examine her feet! Maybe they wear peanut butter and bacon grease hats so she can lick it off while they're trimming.

Otto lets me do 1 nail per treat at a time LOL, just find something your dog really likes and try that
I also play with his paws all the time so he is used to me touching them

 

[sonya123]

my rant today same as usual: @##$#$!!! the weather !! Can someone make it go away ?

 

[Amish Heart]

nope

 

[sonya123]

nope

pray? Magic spell? Anti snow dance? Something????

 

[Amish Heart]

I'll tell you what...the dog and I thought we were going to die yesterday when the wind whipped up and I had an hr and a half of outdoor chores when it hardly was above 0. I have to carry a phone in case husband has issues, and he called an hr in (to see what I was up to) and I could barely walk and talk and pull the wagon with frozen water buckets. It sucked. Glad that is over, and today will be 15 degrees warmer.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We never haul water anywhere no matter how cold it gets. We just turn over their rubber tubs and stomp on the bottom and all of the ice comes out. Then refill out of the hydrant. Couldn't be easier.
For next winter I'm going to buy a propane stock tank heater for the cattle and horses. I'll build a ramp so the pigs, chickens and ducks can reach it too.

 

[Haertig]

I finally did it. After 45+ years of using and administering Unix/Linux I finally deleted a partition table that I did not mean to! ARRRGGGHHH!!!

After a minute or two of cold sweats, rapid breathing and a pulse rate of 200 - I calmed myself. "Don't panic, don't panic. Breath!"

I was lucky. I was scratching my head, "What is that Linux program you use for these disasters? Oh no, I've forgotten. Testdisk! Yes, testdisk!!! Now, do I remember how to use that? It's been years and years." I booted up my laptop to do my testdisk research and Google searches on. I didn't want to touch the computer where I nuked the partition table until I knew my exact plan of action. "OK. Right. Testdisk is simple. I remember this now. Thanks Google."

I restored the partition table. Phew. I dodged a bullet. It took me over 45 years of computer use to shoot myself in the foot like this, but yeah, I finally did it. Luckily 45 years of telling other computer users to "remain calm!" during disasters so they could think their way through it finally sunk in for my own stupid self. But that momentary panic when you do something really dumb does hit you hard. Sure, I do have good backups and I could have recovered that way if all went to hell. But less than a minute using testdisk sure beats a couple of hours doing a bare bones recovery from backup.

I always check, double check, and triple check that I am working on the correct disk when playing with partition tables. So how could I have "accidentally" wiped out the partition table on my primary SSD? Lord only knows!

 

[sonya123]

We never haul water anywhere no matter how cold it gets. We just turn over their rubber tubs and stomp on the bottom and all of the ice comes out. Then refill out of the hydrant. Couldn't be easier.
For next winter I'm going to buy a propane stock tank heater for the cattle and horses. I'll build a ramp so the pigs, chickens and ducks can reach it too.

we give the animals warm water so we have to haul it from the house. Driving it to the barn with the truck right now, only thing that starts, but almost didn't this morning. This cold is very hard on all the equipment.

 

[dademoss]

I finally did it. After 45+ years of using and administering Unix/Linux I finally deleted a partition table that I did not mean to! ARRRGGGHHH!!!

After a minute or two of cold sweats, rapid breathing and a pulse rate of 200 - I calmed myself. "Don't panic, don't panic. Breath!"

I was lucky. I was scratching my head, "What is that Linux program you use for these disasters? Oh no, I've forgotten. Testdisk! Yes, testdisk!!! Now, do I remember how to use that? It's been years and years." I booted up my laptop to do my testdisk research and Google searches on. I didn't want to touch the computer where I nuked the partition table until I knew my exact plan of action. "OK. Right. Testdisk is simple. I remember this now. Thanks Google."

I restored the partition table. Phew. I dodged a bullet. It took me over 45 years of computer use to shoot myself in the foot like this, but yeah, I finally did it. Luckily 45 years of telling other computer users to "remain calm!" during disasters so they could think their way through it finally sunk in for my own stupid self. But that momentary panic when you do something really dumb does hit you hard. Sure, I do have good backups and I could have recovered that way if all went to hell. But less than a minute using testdisk sure beats a couple of hours doing a bare bones recovery from backup.

I always check, double check, and triple check that I am working on the correct disk when playing with partition tables. So how could I have "accidentally" wiped out the partition table on my primary SSD? Lord only knows!

happens when you are root. Glad you got it back.

 

[Mountain trapper]

we give the animals warm water so we have to haul it from the house. Driving it to the barn with the truck right now, only thing that starts, but almost didn't this morning. This cold is very hard on all the equipment.

That's something we never do either, haul warm water. Actually when it's zero out, the water from the hydrant is pretty warm by comparison. Our water is pumped from 650 feet under ground to the pressure tank in the pump house, which is kept at 45 degrees, then piped through almost a half mile of pipe buried over 5 feet deep. The animals all do good with this arrangement. Even the cattle have learned to drink when I take the ice out of their tank and refill with fresh water.

 

[sonya123]

That's something we never do either, haul warm water. Actually when it's zero out, the water from the hydrant is pretty warm by comparison. Our water is pumped from 650 feet under ground to the pressure tank in the pump house, which is kept at 45 degrees, then piped through almost a half mile of pipe buried over 5 feet deep. The animals all do good with this arrangement. Even the cattle have learned to drink when I take the ice out of their tank and refill with fresh water.

but you dont have goats
the sheep would probably be ok with just cold water but the goats are Boer and Kiko mixes ( meaning from climates not anywhere near as cold or not cold at all)