"It's news to me!"

[ygmir]

“Oscar Mayer is giving a new name to the weinermobile. This is the first name has change in Oscar Mayer history.

They will now call all of their hot dog shaped cars “Frankmobiles” with goal to bring attention to a new recipe for All Beef Franks.”

…what about the song?

sacrilege. The heretics should be burned at the stake (steak?). It's like any tradition that can be changed, is...

[Simon of the Playa]

golly, i remember taking the sacrament from them in 1996...


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... drag-group

[The Rod]

Just seen that thing just this last week driving north on I-5 between portland and eugene

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

[Simon of the Playa]

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Millions of Mormon crickets have descended on six counties in Nevada, creating a bug-infested nightmare for many residents.

"They're just gross," Elko resident Precious Drake said. "They look like spiders, and they poop everywhere."

The crickets converged on Elko on Monday, covering vegetation, the roadways, and even the Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital walls.

"Just to get patients into the hospital, we had people out there with leaf blowers, with brooms. At one point, we even had a tractor with a snowplow on it just to push the piles of crickets and move them on their way," Steve Burrows, director of community relations at Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, said.

According to Jeff Knight, an entomologist for the Nevada Department of Agriculture, the crickets have a four-to-six-year cycle and then disappear for a while. The dormant period for Elko and the other five counties seeing the infestation ended in 2019 – and so now they're back.


https://www.ksl.com/article/50663176/mi ... lko-nevada

[some seeing eye]

Thank fucking god. Plan B vending machines. Hope there is a plan for similar on playa.

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/ ... 180481.php

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

Yikes! The manosphere

We Investigated the Deepest, Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre New Video
Sure, there’s Patrick Bateman and Jordan Belfort. But have you heard of GigaChad?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... d-00105238

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts.

Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years owing to global heating and researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... y-suggests

[Elorrum]

The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts.

Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years owing to global heating and researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... y-suggests

I need to go for a walk after I read these reports. TWO YEARS FROM NOW?! The years they estimated before global warming would be a problem were based on average changes over time, but the reality is that the extreme occurrences, being well beyond the estimated average increases, act as accelerants. I think the real tipping point has been reached and blown past: The number of people who could do something, but won't sacrifice any of their own luxuries.

Vertical sheer in jet streams is causing increasingly worse turbulence for air travel. Heat is melting runways. I took slight comfort in knowing that the people who won't examine their addiction to commercial, and private, flight, or the unnecessary transport of all the shit we don't really need that fast by air. The tiny percentage of the world who believe they get all they want whenever they want wherever it is at any price, and endless electricity, and air conditioning (uh oh, sound familiar?) wherever they roam, at least they may be inconvenienced. Maybe I was only noting the irony. I bet we'll hear more about this during hurricane season, pretty soon.

[Elorrum]

One of the Ocean's gate founders is moving on with plans to take people to Venus. Guillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate before leaving the company in 2013, said in a recent interview with Insider that he believes 1,000 humans could colonize the planet in the not-so-distant future. Venus is a very hostile place. It is a very dry planet with no evidence of water, its surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead, and its atmosphere is so thick that the air pressure on its surface is over 90 times that on Earth." I guess they chose it because it was "available." Plus, you know what they say about real estate/land: "They aren't making any more."

https://www.newsweek.com/oceangate-foun ... us-1816364

[Simon of the Playa]

oh, hello...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Cali ... ical_storm

[Elorrum]

A climate change activists who tried to block the highway into Burning Man asked, “What is being late to Burning Man in comparison to having your entire planet on fire?” Some free range videos are out there. I think the officer in the truck who rammed the trailer blocking the road was frighteningly and aggressively negligent towards the safety of the individuals who were chained and padlocked to the trailer.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/artic ... 334916.php

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... nvironment

[ygmir]

A climate change activists who tried to block the highway into Burning Man asked, “What is being late to Burning Man in comparison to having your entire planet on fire?” Some free range videos are out there. I think the officer in the truck who rammed the trailer blocking the road was frighteningly and aggressively negligent towards the safety of the individuals who were chained and padlocked to the trailer.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/artic ... 334916.php

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... nvironment

I was pleased to see the tribal police handling this. I think they did it, just right.

[Elorrum]

I was pleased to see the tribal police handling this. I think they did it, just right.

I agree that action needed to be expedient and the impedance needed to be cleared and dealt with. The cheering of getting the beat down that they stupidly deserve is saddening. Police are not the punitive arm of the legal system… are they? The eventuality of first being terrorized and then handled violently as how you will enter into any police interaction, is being well established.

I saw there were at least two people fairly evidently attached to parts of the trailer blockade that ranger plowed his truck through, that were jerked about by the wreckage at speed. Not a safe approach to the problem to my thinking. I’m glad nobody was torn apart.

[Token]

Hahaha, that was brilliant! Kudos to the Rangers!

I must have watched this in slow motion a dozen times ... the facial expressions are pure gold!

Sovereignty lesson delivered by a Chevy Z71 ... just epic good.

Protesting 101:

Don't block a public road.
Don't block the ONLY road through a sovereign nation.

OK, I'm adding a bit of flair here, but it illustrates the point ... if cops are generally fuck-all, tribal cops can be doubly so. Like the FBI is going to go in and investigate this ...

The dude with the hardhat and extra long chain had the right idea. Lesson learned.

Such entitlement by the doom hippies. What did they think would happen?

[Elorrum]

They were chained to the trailer. Is anybody getting this? It’s damn lucky 2 women weren’t dragged down the road behind that truck.

Yes they were naive, stupid. In the wrong.
But…
Do police need to be in the business of running people down in a road? Is that something you really celebrate?

[ygmir]

some people play stupid games, and win stupid prizes.
Do I want them hurt? no.
Do I feel if they do something so ill advised, (even if they didn't think it'd happen to them) , and got bruised up and "scared", that they should have thought of it and "sorry, not sorry" it happened? yes.
They are narcissists, looking for attention, and feeling they are invulnerable. They think "their cause" overrides others right to carry on with life unimpeded. They've seen rabble around the country blocking freeways, causing mayhem in cities with impunity, and think, somehow, it's "ok".
They don't think of the harm they could be causing in the stopped-up traffic, medical emergencies, etc.....and they'd respond "we didn't mean for that to happen, but, our cause is important", and move on.
The irony of protesting capitalism and environmental causes and causing huge amounts of extra pollution and fuel purchases by making people idle along the road, is not lost.
If LE would deal harsher with this type of thing, it'd happen less often. It's not ok.
Sure, protest along the road, even yell at people and gesture at them. But, interfere with people living their lives, and very possibly causing harm with it? nope. you get bruised and dragged off the road.
IMHO

[Elorrum]

I’m trying to be specific about the tactic of running a truck through a roadblock that individuals have chained themselves to. It was ridiculously irresponsible, and negligent. I hope that Ranger receives all sanctions available.

[Token]

They were chained to the trailer. Is anybody getting this? It’s damn lucky 2 women weren’t dragged down the road behind that truck.

Yes they were naive, stupid. In the wrong.
But…
Do police need to be in the business of running people down in a road? Is that something you really celebrate?

Oh yes, I sure do get that act of epic stupidity and don't feel one bit bad.

One woman that got bumped from the trailer she was leaning on and the guy with the hardhat that remained in the chair. No injuries.

Could it have gone terribly wrong - yes. Did it go terribly wrong - No. I'm not wasting time on what-if and creative exaggeration of "running people down in the road". That didn't happen.

This was pure Darwin Award!

[art walsh]

If you look closely, the truck was going <2MPH when he made contact with the trailer. That's not what I'd call ramming. He nudged the trailer aside. Also, there was a report to the police of a gun being see with the protesters (false report). The LEO had to take that seriously and be ready when he got out of his truck and drew his weapon and ordered the protesters to the ground.

[ygmir]

agreed. handled well, and probably nicer and gentler, than necessary. Stupid/narcissistic/inconsiderate action hurt and can hurt. Perhaps, should hurt. The protestors could have really caused harm to those stuck in the traffic, and have no business interfering with the free passage of others (ironically, many in that line may well have been sympathetic). If it'd hurt and have consequences (jail and or fines) more often, that stuff would happen less.
I see the protestors as narcissistic jackals, taking the easy way of driving out there and blocking the road, knowing full well, nothing they did there, would make any difference at all. It was just so they could social signal to the rest of their flock, that they are "super bad ass and really really care". ( like bad ass could apply in reality, to them, anyway).
and yes, I'm cynical, jaded and prejudice against those groups and their actions.

[Simon of the Playa]

road on tribal land got cleared.

hippies got tons o' publicity.

nobody got hurt, even though they might have.

looks like everybody got what they wanted.

on to the next kerfluffle.

[Token]

Hehehe, next kerfluffle - freezing their little hineys off the next few days on Playa …

A good downpour would be a bonus to remind folks that 1999 did party.

[Token]

Ha! 9 hours of rain! Over 1/2 an inch recorded on the station on-Playa.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/ ... 09-1/daily

And it ain’t over yet.

I can’t wait to hear the stories about the JOTS when the honeypots can’t drive in to service them for a couple days.

Legendary year!

[ygmir]

Ha! 9 hours of rain! Over 1/2 an inch recorded on the station on-Playa.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/ ... 09-1/daily

And it ain’t over yet.

I can’t wait to hear the stories about the JOTS when the honeypots can’t drive in to service them for a couple days.

Legendary year!

it's gunna be exquisite...

[FlyingMonkey]

So far not so bad. There's about 2 inches of mud in the porto's. But they were in relatively good shape. Tuesday may be a different story.

Glass half full, there's no dust and we get extra Burning Man this year.

[Token]

Personally, this is pure poetry for me.

Two consecutive brutal years.

This may be the “reset” many dreamed about.