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by ZoWie
Sun Oct 11, 2026 1:44 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"
Replies: 17
Views: 26972

Re: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"

10/11: Light rain from Isaias continues to drip half-heartedly on Times Square. Some Eastern religious Thing has tents up, with signs and portraits of some guru or perfect master or whatever he is. There are three rows of chairs set up, but they are wet and unoccupied. Four people with umbrellas con...
by ZoWie
Sun Oct 11, 2026 1:36 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

For the first time I can remember, both coasts have hurricane remnants causing rain at the same time. I'm looking out the window at what's left (not much) of Isaias, and the remnants of some Mexican storm (there are several) are going through LA making it drizzle. But there's nothing wrong with the ...
by ZoWie
Sat Oct 10, 2026 3:27 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Latest Solar Gobbledygook
Replies: 69
Views: 443005

Re: Latest Solar Gobbledygook

Surprise solar wind from several mass ejections has caused a geomagnetic storm, currently with a fairly respectable Kp index of 7. Aurora from events of this moderate level is always stronger around equinoxes, and so a major auroral event is in progress over Europe. If conditions persist, late night...
by ZoWie
Sat Oct 10, 2026 10:08 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

All hell has broken loose on the US coasts. In the east, hurricane season came late but now we have a scenario that we hadn't seen in two years, with a cat 3 storm coming ashore in Florida and spreading bad weather up through the whole southeastern US. In the west, all hell has broken loose with wei...
by ZoWie
Sat Oct 10, 2026 9:54 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: French election causes massive student violence
Replies: 3
Views: 54

Re: French election causes massive student violence

The French school protest starts to look more and more like a generational revolution a la what happened in the US in the 1970s. Ignore it at your extreme peril. It's an extreme case of what kind of history inevitably results when the rich are allowed to take over and set national priorities, and yo...
by ZoWie
Fri Oct 09, 2026 11:26 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

Got Isaias on the HF radio, fortunate to be in the same time zone for a change. Cat three, oof. 000 WTNT44 KNHC 091454 TCDAT4 Hurricane Isaias Discussion Number 12 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092026 1000 AM CDT Fri Oct 09 2026 An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft currently inv...
by ZoWie
Tue Oct 06, 2026 3:37 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread
Replies: 1716
Views: 3418404

Re: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread

The excrement has hit the rotary air mover........... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6r7yn8pknyxo Trump, while speaking on Monday in Nebraska about the Iran conflict, said: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them ta...
by ZoWie
Tue Oct 06, 2026 10:00 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: French election causes massive student violence
Replies: 3
Views: 54

Re: French election causes massive student violence

This shit is getting big, ignore it at your peril. It won't end well, but then in politics what ever does? https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm93egpj7y0kt Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating across France, in protest at what they say is under-investment in high schools One union says 2,000 hig...
by ZoWie
Tue Oct 06, 2026 9:48 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: French election causes massive student violence
Replies: 3
Views: 54

Re: French election causes massive student violence

French student rumble has spread. Nooz claims 2000 schools closed. BBC running live shots of students piling up stuff and lighting it on fire in Paris streets. BBC is all over it. While US nooz tells you everything is fine, other networks that don't rely as much on advertising tell it like it is. Ap...
by ZoWie
Tue Oct 06, 2026 8:15 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Paramount responds to letter from Hollywood figures
Replies: 10
Views: 80930

Re: Paramount responds to letter from Hollywood figures

It's over. BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxj0604d33qzo Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger The newly merged entertainment behemoth will be re-branded under the name Skydance Corporation, the company orginally founded by David Ellison before he took over both Paramoun...
by ZoWie
Mon Oct 05, 2026 8:40 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"
Replies: 17
Views: 26972

Re: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"

10/5: OK, it's Monday. So sue me. Times Square is kind of empty right now. Once again, the uptown portion (Duffy Square) is barricaded off, for some typically inexplicable reason. A bobtail truck is parked next to the statue, but it has no identifying signs on it. It rained on Sunday, the way it doe...
by ZoWie
Mon Oct 05, 2026 8:29 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: French election causes massive student violence
Replies: 3
Views: 54

French election causes massive student violence

BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c69wzjjxex8po School protests send shivers down French government's spine A movement that started nearly two weeks ago in the low-income Seine-Saint-Denis area of northern Paris has in the last few days spread across the country. On Thursday – the high point so...
by ZoWie
Sat Oct 03, 2026 9:04 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: It was 100 degrees here today
Replies: 1
Views: 45

Re: It was 100 degrees here today

I feel your pain. Fortunately I fled to New York weeks ago and I'm not leaving any time soon. I tend to avoid LA in the dreaded October. There was a Noreaster which was ridiculously early as those go, but it didn't do much in Manhattan. Some places right on the ocean weren't so lucky. Republicans ar...
by ZoWie
Fri Oct 02, 2026 8:23 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Bye
Replies: 2241
Views: 4710995

Re: Bye

While most people are too shell-shocked to publically protest these mergers, the resulting consequences are well documented from past such greed trips, and they invariably include the kind of economics that produce history. The shit will hit the fan, though we don't know the details until they happe...
by ZoWie
Wed Sep 30, 2026 8:21 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Really crazy hijacking in Dubai
Replies: 0
Views: 83

Really crazy hijacking in Dubai

This account comes mostly from BBC, but it dominates all world news. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjdv7pmj9dno A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was unexpectedly diverted to Saudi Arabia after a pilot was stabbed, Israeli officials have told local media. The Flydubai plane - which took off from ...
by ZoWie
Tue Sep 29, 2026 10:09 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

One of the hurricanes went right through Baja, which is rare, and now is hanging together over central Mexico, which is practically unheard of. Arizona, NM, CO, comin' atcha.
by ZoWie
Sun Sep 27, 2026 9:33 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

The West Coast and Hawaii are being blasted by swells and historically high tides from two El Nino hurricanes. Beaches are being destroyed, along with anything built too close to them. Meanwhile, the East Coast has one of its earliest nor'easters ever, and is getting similarly blasted, as the Weathe...
by ZoWie
Sun Sep 27, 2026 9:23 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"
Replies: 17
Views: 26972

Re: Return of "Sunday in Times Square"

9/27: Perhaps in anticipation of the nor'easter that's been blasting the NE US this weekend, Duffy Square is completely barricaded off. A handful of brave souls in full rain gear walk around the periphery, otherwise all of the greater expanse of the whole Times Square is wet and empty. Streets are l...
by ZoWie
Sat Sep 26, 2026 9:17 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Shit hits fan on AI
Replies: 6
Views: 5857

Re: Shit hits fan on AI

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly. AI agents attempted to get ...
by ZoWie
Fri Sep 25, 2026 9:12 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread
Replies: 1716
Views: 3418404

Re: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread

Red meat for the loony base. It works with the hard core because they think anyone who doesn't agree with them is a Marxist, Communist, and socialist all at once, since they have no clue what real Marxists, Comunists, and socialists really are.
by ZoWie
Fri Sep 25, 2026 9:06 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

The moon was pretty spectacular last night as it was.
by ZoWie
Thu Sep 24, 2026 11:10 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Flock cameras can track people, sort of
Replies: 1
Views: 300

Re: Flock cameras can track people, sort of

Flock cameras are all over the Nooz. They have become a THING, like AI and Internet surveillance. To put it simply, people are appalled about their proliferation absent Federal laws on how the data is used.
by ZoWie
Thu Sep 24, 2026 11:04 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: ...'data'..and...plastics....
Replies: 77
Views: 85757

Re: ...'data'..and...plastics....

That will be about as successful as the new names for Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico.

Orwell spent quite a bit of "1984" explaining how totalitarians monkey with the language in an attempt to control what you think.
by ZoWie
Tue Sep 22, 2026 2:36 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread
Replies: 1716
Views: 3418404

Re: The Donald Trump is Batcrap Crazy and The Leader of the GOP Thread

The system is antiquated, and instead of spending the money to update it, we gave tax breaks to billionaires.
by ZoWie
Tue Sep 22, 2026 2:33 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 2601
Views: 5699774

Re: EARTH....

Not just El Nino. The weather in SoCal is having it's periodic rampage. Everything's too hot or too humid or too rainy or too windy, and nobody ever really planned for that. A lot of construction occurred in places where weather has historically done massive damage. It's some kind of a cycle that is...