| 6ixStringJack: I wish you could do that with a real life hoard. Working with a digital hoard like this is like having an inter-dimensional box for everything. A near-endless amount of data, but at the end of the day it's all packed into a few drives around the size of a credit card and the thickness of a 200 page novella. |
6ixStringJack: 10 years ago I would have, but wasting 350GB of space on 2 drives in 2026 just isn't a thing that bothers me anymore. Especially when I can make it all essentially one big brick of a file that I never have to look at again if I don't want to.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Got a large portion of around half a tb of unused data that could prove valuable down the road and I'm not quite ready to delete all archived and packed down to about 2/3rds of that size. I may never look at any of that stuff ever again, but I felt it was valuable enough to hold onto and would no longer be any bother to me when archived as 7zip which does not bog down file searches like zip/rar files do, even though it is still taking up quite a bit of space. It's there if I ever need it, and it's not clogged up with a ton of huge things that are just completely wasting space. I do know a lot of that IS a waste of space, but I don't feel like wasting a lot of time (weeks maybe) going through hundreds of thousands of small files when drive space is cheap. |
6ixStringJack: Nice... Though I've been doing a lot of other things in the meantime, the big re-org is almost done. I've had my project largely spread out among two 5tb hard drives for years now, but I've managed to remove nearly 3tb of now redundant data, which lead to around 2tb of free space after adding another 1tb from some new stuff that I now had room for. Most of the large stuff is gone, but I know I can get rid of at least 300GB more after some more work is done. The main bulk of the project can now be stored very easily with plenty of room to spare on a single 5tb drive now, although a large add-on that I prepared years ago and have yet to add back is around 3tb and needs to be accessed from a different source until I get some 10tb drives down the road and do a total legit backup. This feels really good. Head's feeling a lot less cluttered, even though it was a digital hoard.  |
| 6ixStringJack: It's actually kind of nice when my furnace isn't trying to make it nearly 100 degrees warmer inside my house than it is outside and it's only struggling to keep it 80 degrees warmer inside the house than outside. |
| 6ixStringJack: Time for Trump to remove ALL "green" bullshit and get natural gas and electric prices down to reasonable costs after Joe Biden*'s fake and cheating administration ruined our power supply chain with their "green" bullshit. Codify it. Get rid of it forever. No more solar farms. No more windmill farms. All they were was a multi-trillion dollar failed experiment that was destined to fail from the start, brought to you by the corrupted Democratic Party and Legacy Media. |
| 6ixStringJack: I've had it higher than any year before now, at 68 degrees (Before my diabetes diagnosis, it wouldn't be uncommon for me to keep that at 60 degrees or even below that). I was so cold the other night, I put it up to 69 degrees and it was on for 15 straight minutes with less than 3 minutes before the heat kicked on again. No good. That single degree when it was -30 with the windchill outside was about a 33% increase in the amount of time my furnace was on, so I just turned it back to 68. At least it's a little warmer today and (hopefully) the worst nights are behind us after tonight's -4 degrees. |
| 6ixStringJack: Just got my power bill here. Nearly $350 for a 35 day period. Almost $10 per day to be borderline miserable at these temps, but at least the pipes aren't bursting. For about 3 months this winter, my electric/gas costs are going to be more money per day than every single other thing I buy to live combined, including all of my bills and property taxes. I would feel a lot better about that if it were at least comfortable. |
| 6ixStringJack: Hey Brenda, sorry... In a rather ornery mood the last few days with the bitter cold both inside and outside my house. I know you said Sunday would be the day you might try backing your book up again. Any luck? |
| 6ixStringJack: Don't ever bring up anything having to do with math, statistics or numbers to me. You should know this by now. You are retarded and you don't understand how basic math works. |
| 6ixStringJack: Irrelevant. You can't compare prices in China to prices in the US. Not when it would likely cost 10 times as much to get nuclear plants up and running in California than it would Indiana. Not when housing and rent in blue shitholes is stupid expensive to most of the rest of the country. Take whatever disingenuous "point" you were trying to make and go bounce on it, stupid. I don't waste anymore time debating Lefty low-IQ morons. |
| second: 6ix, can you tell which is cheaper? China has nuclear construction costs of approximately $3 billion per gigawatt while utility-scale solar in China is estimated at roughly $260 million per gigawatt. |
| 6ixStringJack: As for the rest of your "thoughts" that were given to you by your overlords today, Second, save them. Nobody cares about your TDS anymore either. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nuclear power is only expensive because YOU made it expensive. The good news is that YOU only made the old ways of making plants expensive and we will get around that by having much smaller plants and many, many more of them. Solar and Windmill farms were a complete waste of money and a hobbyist project turned into yet another government run money laundering scheme. We don't believe any of your bullshit anymore and all of your so-called experts are con-men and crooks. |
| second: Trump listens to Putin, he listens to Xi, he listens to how they talk about governing unburdened by uncooperative legislatures, unconcerned with what the judiciary may do, and he thinks to himself, Why can’t I do that? This doesn’t amount to being a fascist, in my view, or having a theory of how you want to govern. It’s just Why can’t I have the same fun they have? [go to link] |
| second: t’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea, Part 3.
“It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely,” Thomas Mann wrote a century ago, in his novel “The Magic Mountain,” set in a sanitarium perched above the Swiss mountain town of Davos, where Trump spent the better part of this week proving to the stunned attendees of the annual World Economic Forum the continuing relevance of Mann’s observation. [go to link] |
| second: It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea, Part 2.
There are many conclusions to be drawn from this astonishing statistic, including the obvious one, that our leader loves the sound of his own voice, and the slightly less obvious corollary that he has no one around him willing or able to tell him to shut up. It’s also true that, in rambling on so much, Trump reveals just about everything one could ever want to know about him—his lack of discipline, his ignorance, his vanity, insecurity, and crudeness, and a mean streak that knows no limits. [go to link] |
| second: It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea, Part 1.
Donald Trump is an editor’s nightmare and a psychiatrist’s dream. Amid all the coverage marking the first anniversary of his return to the White House, one story—which did not get the attention it deserved—stood out for me: a Times analysis of how much more the President has been talking and talking and talking. The findings? One million nine hundred and seventy-seven thousand six hundred and nine words in the Presidential appearances, as of January 20th—an increase of two hundred and forty-five per cent compared with the first year of Trump’s first term in office, back in 2017. [go to link] |
| second: Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling knew that ice had formed there overnight and that freezing temperatures that morning made it too risky for liftoff. "He said we are going to have a catastrophic event today," recalled his daughter Leslie Ebeling, who, like her father, worked at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol and who was in the car in 1986 on that 30-mile drive to the company's booster rocket complex outside Brigham City, Utah. "He said the Challenger's going to blow up. Everyone's going to die. And he was beating his hands on the dashboard. … He was frantic." [go to link] |
| second: Trump made claims in Davos, including: 1) "Instead of building ineffective money-losing windmills, we're taking them down and not approving any" (wind turbines are the second cheapest option for new electricity generation capacity globally now, only trailing solar panels — and most of the world knows this) 2) "Every major oil company is coming with us" to invest in Venezuela, Trump also said. That's a blatant lie. 3) He called nuclear power "cheap and safe," even though it's the most expensive option for new power capacity — multiple times more expensive than those "windmills" he mentioned above. Is Donald Trump the dumbest block of cheese in world politics? [go to link] |