Ward of the State?   Last I checked, I am a disabled citizen who's using his medical insurance to reside in a post acute care rehab facility.  It's not a prison or an orphanage.  So besides trying to insult me, he's inaccurate.  Even if I was a ward of the state, there's no shame in that.  Is it shameful to be an orphan?  It happens.  I got injured and have medical issues.  It happens.

At least I'm not so unhappy with my life I  entertain myself by trying to insult people on the internet.

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The Diner Troll continues to return, and as usual he is tolerated until he gets insulting.  That is pretty much getting to be right away as things are going.

TDOS has been told not to refer to the Diner membership as three old geriatrics several times.

TDOS You forget I am the Übermensch who pays the bills, and who writes the code.  It is sort of like I own the place.  RE and I make the rules.

QuotePlot the relationship between x:y (1:7) and x1:y1 (2:14) and try not to get a straight line. Avoid admitting as best you can that this is EXACTLY why only one of us is still working at our professional peak while the other "elderly gentlemen" are left with being happily stoned stupid or a ward of the state.

TDOS I could delete your post for that, and give you another three days off.  <-----  And I just did.

For someone who is thousands of miles away you sure know a lot about me.  Your clairvoyance is beyond belief.  And still working at your professional peak implies that you are a professional troll because otherwise you would not be arguing with a former engineer with a Masters Degree about an exponential that is piecewise linear with a slope of 7 around the data point of interest.  You would be too busy at your real job, or you must hate your real job with a passion to bother coming here where you only get suspended over and over again for being rude and insulting.

*  I am not feeding the troll.  I just suspended him for three more days.  AGAIN


The statement

QuoteFor every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold ~7% more water vapor—like a sponge expanding

is a good analogy that captures the essence of a fundamental physical principle governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

The "7% for every 1°C" rule (sometimes cited as 6-7%) is an empirical observation derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. When you plug in the relevant physical constants for water (like the latent heat of vaporization) and consider typical atmospheric temperatures, the equation shows that saturation vapor pressure indeed increases by roughly this percentage for each degree Celsius of warming.

Sweet someone with a private website like ours who lets his stuff get embedded.


100% About what Luke Smith says about AI.  The massive quantities of power is another question.  What it is and what it is good for it the question for today.

And my fooling around with it consumes as much power as a 100 watt old school light bulb while the program runs.

My python AI project  <--- I format a continuous un-formatted string of text into a properly formatted string of text with punctuated and identified sentences.  Fragments remaining un-formatted.  It is a work in progress and quite a nut to crack.  To the technically curious - It is complicated task to make a large text file flow through a small context window.

I have made enough progress to know I am going to wind up with something useful.  And repeating Luke's point of view. 100% AI is a tool and useless without humans in the loop.

The OBBBA's Medicaid cuts are catastrophic in scale, with 11.8M–17M losing coverage, 1M+ jobs vanishing, and $100B+ in economic activity evaporating annually.

Rural areas and vulnerable populations (disabled, elderly, children) will bear the brunt.

First wave:  Administrative disruptions and provider strain (2025–2026)
Second wave: Mass coverage losses and job cuts (2026–2027)
Third wave:  Economic collapse in vulnerable states (2028–2034)

Trump's new law strips coverage, jacks up costs, and risks 200,000 deaths

Various estimates have come dropping in for the potential death count resultant from the Big Ugly Bill, starting down around the ridiculously low figure of 50K.  How do you count up such a number?  Which deaths do you attribute to lack of access to care when hospitals close?  Which from peoplee who choose not to go to the doctor because they know they can't afford it?  Over what time period are you measuring this death toll?

Suffice it to say, the numbers are likely gross under estimates, but one thing is clear.  The death toll whatever it is will fall disproportionately on the poor.  The effects however won't stop there, since a huge number of middle class families of health care workers get paid by the medicaid budget.

Whatever it ends up being will take quite a while to play out.  Unpleasaantt time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-medicaid-big-beautiful-bill-americans-uninsured-1235379423/

Trump's Big Bill Will Make Americans Uninsured Again

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Ten inches of rain in a short time on saturated ground over multiple counties.

The death toll so far is 79, it will go up.

How Global Heating Causes Extreme Rain:

The Science Explained

1. The Basic Physics: More Heat, More Water
For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold ~7% more water vapor—like a sponge expanding. This is a logarithmic relationship: small temperature increases lead to accelerating moisture capacity.
→ At 2°C warming, storms can dump 14% more rain in extreme events PIK Potsdam.

2. Why Rain Turns Extreme
Warmer air doesn't just hold moisture—it unleashes it violently:

    Convective Storms: Hotter air fuels stronger updrafts, creating towering clouds that rain harder and faster.

    Stalled Systems: Heat domes trap rain for days (e.g., 2021 European floods).
    → The heaviest 1% of rains now deliver 20% more water per degree Nature Study.

3. Worse Than Linear: Feedback Loops

    Tropical Regions: Higher humidity = exponential rain risks (e.g., Pakistan's 2022 super floods).

    Colder Areas: More snowfall from the same mechanism (Arctic warming).
    → Once-a-decade storms may occur 2.5x more often at 2°C NOAA.

Key Takeaway
Global heating doesn't just increase rain—it distorts how rain falls, making extremes more sudden and severe. Each degree matters.

QuoteAnd the reason that all of these politicians are not jumping on board with this is because Zoron Mandani is their worst nightmare.

They rely on propaganda to get the money from the United States of America and to get our military protection by propagandizing and lying to American citizens that:

    All Muslims are terrorists. All Muslims hate women. All Muslims want Sharia law.

And here you have Zoron Mendani who stands with, um, one of his opponents who is a Jewish man — who ended up endorsing Zoron — who says:

    "I want to join you in your fight against anti-semitism. And all of you trans kids that are getting bullied — I stand with you. I want to comfort you. I want you to have a place under my tent."

And:

    "Everybody who works hard all the time and can never get ahead — I don't care what color your skin is. I don't care what your religion is. I'm here to champion for you. I'm here for everyone. Because none of us are free until all of us are free."

So, as an objective person that lives in the middle of America in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
I don't want my taxpayer dollars going over to some homicidal maniac, Benjamin Netanyahu.  I don't think it's right.  How does this advance American interests?

I like listening to these two.

I do not believe that the Democratic Party can be reformed.  American politicians from both parties are bought and paid for, and it is not the American people who bought them.

The only way reform could happen is if every single elected congressman/woman knew they would not be re-elected if they did not do the people's work.  Unfortunately the people are not ready to lead.  If they were nonsense would end in a heartbeat.

Israeli settlers, protected by the army, ramp up violence in occupied West Bank

QuoteWhile global attention focused on the conflict between Israel and Iran, Jewish extremists intensified their attacks on Palestinian villages. On Wednesday in Kafr Malik, the Israeli army killed three civilians after 'stone-throwing' incidents.

Every time I turned on a You Tube video to see the flying missiles I knew it was a cover for atrocity.

Peak stupidity.  Slogans now define reality uncoupled from truth of any kind.

A giant toilet flush in the Kuwait Oil Museum convinces someone that oil will last forever, and this nimrod tweet gets 63000 likes or something like this.

No doubt about it.  We should have given cows guns a long time ago.