Post by: K-Dog on December 22, 2018, 02:31:15 PM
Irv's site (A common Blogspot look and feel) Nothing wrong with it if you don't mind the golden handcuffs.
http://theeasiestpersontofool.blogspot.com/2018/10/responding-to-collapse-part-3-decling.html (http://theeasiestpersontofool.blogspot.com/2018/10/responding-to-collapse-part-3-decling.html)
Compare that with a peek at what I'm up to now. This is a screenshot. I started writing an 'article' using my internal editor and added some dummy comments.
(http://chasingthesquirrel.com/pics/kblog.png)
As you see if I just wanted a blogspot looking site where I write the software and host it myself I can be up and running pretty quick. That just polishes what I have now. But I want more than that so this post is just a tease. Kblog really is up on the dark web and if you knew what to type in as a URL you could actually get there. You could even leave a comment. But like I said, not yet. I have plans.
(https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Nazi-Porsche-Adolf-Hitler-and-the-Volkswagen-Beetle.jpg)
I'll be correcting the 'Dune' quote above through my Admin Panel but I'll have to create a Frank Herbert user first. Go ahead and comment on my nascent essay. Your input could make it into the debut Kblog release!
Whenever that is. :icon_sunny:
Post by: azozeo on December 22, 2018, 02:43:37 PM
:icon_sunny: :icon_sunny: :icon_sunny:
Be gentle with them.... (hehehehe)
Post by: RE on December 22, 2018, 02:55:36 PM
Send me the URL in PM and I'll hel you troubleshoot it.
RE
Post by: Eddie on January 27, 2019, 09:10:49 AM
Post by: azozeo on June 30, 2019, 04:54:22 PM
oH YEAH.
http://www.youtube.com/v/KXswX7zFqvc
The Diner is mentioned.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Post by: Guest on July 06, 2019, 02:21:52 AM
Off the keyboard & microphone of K-Dog
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on July 6, 2019
Discuss this Interview at the Off the Leash Newz Table inside the Diner
Greetings Diners, K-Dog here,
I had the pleasure of being invited to share a few of my thoughs of Doom by Sam Mitchell. It is quite an honor to become a member of the kennel club that Sam Mitchel interviews. Sam finds good people. After you get your fix here at the Diner you might take a peek and look at who else Sam has interviewed at Collapse Chronicles. I have and I'm glad I did. Above is my interview.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich was Sam's first interview.
Saying it was an honor to be interviewed by Sam obviously does not say enough, Paul needs no introduction.
Best wishes,
K-Dog
Post by: UnhingedBecauseLucid on July 13, 2019, 01:43:35 PM
...pulled me out of a ... ... 'lethargic episode'.
Post by: Surly1 on July 13, 2019, 01:45:18 PM
Nice to [almost] meet you ;)
...pulled me out of a ... ... 'lethargic episode'.
???
Post by: UnhingedBecauseLucid on July 13, 2019, 02:15:02 PM
Quote
???
Let's just call it 'wallowing in sin & cynicism to alleviate the boredom and despair that commonly afflicts jaded iconoclasts that feel trapped by circumstances of life every now and then'
But you probably wouldn't understand being the cheerful upstanding citizen filled with love and feelings of goodwill towards Mankind that you are ... ::) :exp-angel: :exp-rolleyes: ;D
Post by: Surly1 on July 13, 2019, 04:36:04 PM
Quote???
Let's just call it 'wallowing in sin & cynicism to alleviate the boredom and despair that commonly afflicts jaded iconoclasts that feel trapped by circumstances of life every now and then'
But you probably wouldn't understand being the cheerful upstanding citizen filled with love and feelings of goodwill towards Mankind that you are ... ::) :exp-angel: :exp-rolleyes: ;D
Yep. Got me down pat.
Post by: RE on October 03, 2019, 08:34:09 PM
(https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2019/09/17/Photos/ZH/MW-HR446_NorthP_20190917103845_ZH.jpg?uuid=daac6ce4-d958-11e9-8fe6-9c8e992d421e)
My own place in the doomosphere will be hosting comments soon. I have been farting around have done all the stuff to make it work long enough I think I have skill enough to actually get it working. It is quite an onion. Commenting on a website is a two way conversation. Both uploading and downloading have to be done.
So now if you go to the end of my last Monday's rambling you see a 'comment' button. If you click it a request will be sent to:
http://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (http://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
The request will be for a list of comments which arrive and have to be displayed on screen. Right now it is fun, at least for me to watch it work while I work out the display kinks. Reloading the page will close things, but why? Buttons will be added later.
All you see are some dummy comments right now. Next I link them together so they can be easily navigated in a way I invented myself.
(https://24dlmn2bqamt1e72kah59881-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wizard_of_oz_man_behind_curtain_bluesnap.gif)
I'll check it out.
RE
Post by: RE on November 01, 2019, 03:59:50 AM
A lot has been done. No comments yet. I found I needed to do more to get ready for them.I had to write K-Dog 2.0
Now my page is automatically generated. I had to do it because the tags in my HTML have to get deeper for the neat shit and it was too much to do by hand. My big flat HTML files were too hard to keep error free but to my delight when I posted:
K-Dogs Excellent Adventures 2.0
today at:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
it came back as verified with the little green padlock. All the HTML looks to be clean so far and because my new page validates as safe apparently some of the bots are being kept away by the validation service.
Whatever, it may look pretty much the same with a new two column format but under the hood things are completely different, and better.
I'm still waiting for a better Commenting system for the Diner than the SMF we use.
RE
Post by: RE on November 01, 2019, 10:09:45 AM
A lot has been done. No comments yet. I found I needed to do more to get ready for them.I had to write K-Dog 2.0
Now my page is automatically generated. I had to do it because the tags in my HTML have to get deeper for the neat shit and it was too much to do by hand. My big flat HTML files were too hard to keep error free but to my delight when I posted:
K-Dogs Excellent Adventures 2.0
today at:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
it came back as verified with the little green padlock. All the HTML looks to be clean so far and because my new page validates as safe apparently some of the bots are being kept away by the validation service.
Whatever, it may look pretty much the same with a new two column format but under the hood things are completely different, and better.
I'm still waiting for a better Commenting system for the Diner than the SMF we use.
RE
Yes, when it is working it will be better out of the box but there is more to getting a article/comment dialog system working than just getting an edit box up and posting. My new release is a big part of that but only a part. For instance I'll have to have registered users. Another layer of the onion, but you are being a Debbie Downer. If doing all this was super easy other people would have made better systems long ago.
I'll of course be able to ban people if they are idiots but I'll need to have some simple controls up like being able to turn somebodies text color to match the background color if they piss me off from day one.
It's the adventure and not just the destination of it all that keeps me going. For a long time I had decided it was to hard but then I decided fuck it. I'm just going to do it. Hard or not. Now my skills are good enough to actually get the job done and I do not think that is a small thing to say. There is a hell of a lot to know to build a website from scratch.
Practically as soon as I get a log in screen up and working and install the editor I will have comments. I'll start by making it register by email only while I work on the nuts and bolts of a registration system that sends you the automated link thing. If I did not break login and registration into separate tasks comments could be a long way off.
Getting 2.0 as far along as it is I'll say is the same effort and time a small book could take. Not that the two are strictly equivalent of course but the complexity of the task is not small.
What is really good is that I can now write all sorts of goodies by hand. I have something that presents as well as a big name package does and I have full control over it. It is lean mean and well organized. I think I might run against Trump in the next election. I'll make a voting plugin on the site for the straw election. Sliding bars showing current vote count. I can make some nice graphics for a poll that would be the same task essentially.
I have learned enough to be dangerous.
Have any ideas for a poll?
My MAIN requirement is a FILING SYSTEM for the posting, so that you can find Comments not just by the particular blog they were attached to but by the Subject of the pot, as well as additional Tags to search it down by. SMF is not too bad with this, but it could be much better. WP commentary is utterly worthless for searching by topic.
RE
Post by: RE on November 01, 2019, 10:16:12 AM
A lot has been done. No comments yet. I found I needed to do more to get ready for them.I had to write K-Dog 2.0
Now my page is automatically generated. I had to do it because the tags in my HTML have to get deeper for the neat shit and it was too much to do by hand. My big flat HTML files were too hard to keep error free but to my delight when I posted:
K-Dogs Excellent Adventures 2.0
today at:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
it came back as verified with the little green padlock. All the HTML looks to be clean so far and because my new page validates as safe apparently some of the bots are being kept away by the validation service.
Whatever, it may look pretty much the same with a new two column format but under the hood things are completely different, and better.
I'm still waiting for a better Commenting system for the Diner than the SMF we use.
RE
Yes, when it is working it will be better out of the box but there is more to getting a article/comment dialog system working than just getting an edit box up and posting. My new release is a big part of that but only a part. For instance I'll have to have registered users. Another layer of the onion, but you are being a Debbie Downer. If doing all this was super easy other people would have made better systems long ago.
I'll of course be able to ban people if they are idiots but I'll need to have some simple controls up like being able to turn somebodies text color to match the background color if they piss me off from day one.
It's the adventure and not just the destination of it all that keeps me going. For a long time I had decided it was to hard but then I decided fuck it. I'm just going to do it. Hard or not. Now my skills are good enough to actually get the job done and I do not think that is a small thing to say. There is a hell of a lot to know to build a website from scratch.
Practically as soon as I get a log in screen up and working and install the editor I will have comments. I'll start by making it register by email only while I work on the nuts and bolts of a registration system that sends you the automated link thing. If I did not break login and registration into separate tasks comments could be a long way off.
Getting 2.0 as far along as it is I'll say is the same effort and time a small book could take. Not that the two are strictly equivalent of course but the complexity of the task is not small.
What is really good is that I can now write all sorts of goodies by hand. I have something that presents as well as a big name package does and I have full control over it. It is lean mean and well organized. I think I might run against Trump in the next election. I'll make a voting plugin on the site for the straw election. Sliding bars showing current vote count. I can make some nice graphics for a poll that would be the same task essentially.
I have learned enough to be dangerous.
Have any ideas for a poll?
My MAIN requirement is a FILING SYSTEM for the posting, so that you can find Comments not just by the particular blog they were attached to but by the Subject of the pot, as well as additional Tags to search it down by. SMF is not too bad with this, but it could be much better. WP commentary is utterly worthless for searching by topic.
RE
Oh, also, once you have created this Ultimate Commentary System (UCS) as you Code Jockey the Internet Horse, we need to be able to migrate the ENTIRE almost 8 year history of Diner Comments from SMF to the new Database. Take that Hot Dog and suck on it for a while. lol.
RE
Post by: RE on November 01, 2019, 10:11:08 PM
Quotewe need to be able to migrate the ENTIRE almost 8 year history of Diner Comments from SMF to the new Database.
In your dreams.
Had a feeling that was the case.
The Diner Forum shall remain on SMF until the SUN goes Red Giant.
RE
Post by: K-Dog on November 12, 2019, 09:46:44 PM
And clicking on the big menu which now has 400 links promotes your selection. The sort in the menu is alphabetic by section to start with but after that popularity sorts the menu. I use another page that does not 'vote' so I don't bias the results. Dark Green Mountain visited and found out right away. Good for him, it's all good.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
(https://i.imgflip.com/1ca8ut.jpg)
(http://www.farrockaway.com/carol/newsboy2.gif)
Post by: K-Dog on November 12, 2019, 10:07:56 PM
Quotewe need to be able to migrate the ENTIRE almost 8 year history of Diner Comments from SMF to the new Database.
In your dreams.
Had a feeling that was the case.
The Diner Forum shall remain on SMF until the SUN goes Red Giant.
RE
Actually not that hard. Down the road from what I want to do but since all the content here is clearly defined text and media a project to 'eat' a thread and post the digested content into my own format would be straightforward but with enough details to work out that it would take a while.
But keep dreaming. To return to some of this content would be a vulgarity. Even some of mine.
Post by: RE on November 12, 2019, 11:53:12 PM
Progress has been made. Who will be the first to send me a message?
Where's the Button for sending messages?
RE
Post by: K-Dog on November 13, 2019, 05:36:51 AM
Progress has been made. Who will be the first to send me a message?
Where's the Button for sending messages?
RE
Play around with the login button. It will lead you to a message button.
Login button -> (new user or message) button -> message form with send.
Post by: RE on November 13, 2019, 05:39:25 AM
Progress has been made. Who will be the first to send me a message?
Where's the Button for sending messages?
RE
Play around with the login button. It will lead you to a message button.
Login button -> (new user or message) button -> message form with send.
I will scope around.
Meanwhile, can you change that color scheme? I can hardly read it off that black background.
RE
Post by: K-Dog on November 13, 2019, 05:58:10 AM
Progress has been made. Who will be the first to send me a message?
Where's the Button for sending messages? I'm spending a fair amount of time adjusting the colors so they work with the dark background.
RE
Play around with the login button. It will lead you to a message button.
Login button -> (new user or message) button -> message form with send.
I will scope around.
Meanwhile, can you change that color scheme? I can hardly read it off that black background.
RE
Some people like it. I can't stand a light screen. I am adjusting the colors so they look good with the background .
Post by: RE on November 13, 2019, 01:16:26 PM
Progress has been made. Who will be the first to send me a message?
Where's the Button for sending messages?
RE
Play around with the login button. It will lead you to a message button.
Login button -> (new user or message) button -> message form with send.
I will scope around.
Meanwhile, can you change that color scheme? I can hardly read it off that black background.
RE
When I click the Lpgin Button, it tells me to click the Enter Button. After I click that, I get a dialogue line to put in my user name. That does not seem to work
The readability looks a bit improved.
R
Post by: K-Dog on November 13, 2019, 02:04:06 PM
Post by: K-Dog on November 13, 2019, 02:20:51 PM
Post by: RE on November 13, 2019, 02:47:41 PM
Now you can't miss it.
Will try again later.
Right now trying to work out communications with a Ruskie on Vikings. ::)
RE
Post by: K-Dog on November 13, 2019, 11:37:29 PM
Now you can't miss it.
Will try again later.
Right now trying to work out communications with a Ruskie on Vikings. ::)
RE
Thanks for the message. Good input thanks. I may work on a page two with a pale pastel colored page. That would be kind of cool. Add other pages but keep the entry hall dark.
I will have to add a way to reset passwords. A lot of this stuff you don't realize until you get something working. My 'other choices button' seemed obvious but when I looked at my page after you missed it I realized how easy it was to pass over.
If people don't forget their passwords the minimum I have now will at least allow someone to edit and write protect their comments provided they don't cause me to swing the ban hammer. I have some back end stuff to write to support such admin tasks before I can go prime time. Truth be told that is what the messaging is all about. I can write stuff to process the messages that I can reuse as the backbone for comment manipulations which are just enough harder to make it smart to do messages first.
The way my passwords work is you pick a password and code in your browser munges it together with your username. Code then takes the md5 checksum of the resulting munged text. That resulting checksum is sent from your browser to my registration functions where it is stored with email, username and real name as the user password.
The actual password a person picks never leaves their computer and going backwards from an md5 checksum to whatever a person picked is hard enough, but what do I mean by 'munged'? Only I know that and since I have all the tools to make a trolls' text color match their background color or ban them outright anytime I want I'd need someones password why?
Point is, my passwords are secure. I can't possibly tell what a person picked and all I will have to do to let a person reset a password is have them to enter an random email code sent only by requesting a reset. It will all be automatic. I will be fancy and only let someone have ten minutes to use their email code like everyone else does; but time limits are only psychological feel good stuff. Time has nothing to do with it. It is secure or it isn't and my little amateur site will be more secure than most big players.
Ask yourself next time you are in password hell. How do they know your new password is almost like the old one and so should not be accepted as valid? How could they ever know? I won't be able to know or possibly guess. If I look at a stored password all I will see is what looks to be a 128 bit random number. I won't be able to tell what name/password combination originally made it before it was sent up to the server.
Of course if Uncle Sam is into our shit (and they are) none of what I say matters. They will do whatever they want.
If you register and are successful a green message will say 'you have been registered'. So far nobody has registered but K-Dog and some other test dogs I made up and already deleted. 'Fido' was entered and deleted at least ten times while I debugged my code and it should not be possible to get a 'you have been registered' message without actually entering a new user successfully.
Post by: RE on November 13, 2019, 11:47:17 PM
Now you can't miss it.
Will try again later.
Right now trying to work out communications with a Ruskie on Vikings. ::)
RE
Thanks for the message. Good input thanks. I may work on a page two with a pale pastel colored page. That would be kind of cool. Add other pages but keep the entry hall dark.
I will have to add a way to reset passwords. A lot of this stuff you don't realize until you get something working. My 'other choices button' seemed obvious but when I looked at my page after you missed it I realized how easy it was to pass over.
If people don't forget their passwords the minimum I have now will at least allow someone to edit and write protect their comments provided they don't cause me to swing the ban hammer. I have some back end stuff to write to support such admin tasks before I can go prime time. Truth be told that is what the messaging is all about. I can write stuff to process the messages that I can reuse as the backbone for comment manipulations which are just enough harder to make it smart to do messages first.
The way my passwords work is you pick a password and code in your browser munges it together with your username. Code then takes the md5 checksum of the resulting munged text. That resulting checksum is sent from your browser to my registration functions where it is stored with email, username and real name as the user password.
The actual password a person picks never leaves their computer and going backwards from an md5 checksum to whatever a person picked is hard enough, but what do I mean by 'munged'? Only I know that and since I have all the tools to make a trolls' text color match their background color or ban them outright anytime I want I'd need someones password why?
Point is, my passwords are secure. I can't possibly tell what a person picked and all I will have to do to let a person reset a password is to have them to enter an random email code sent only by requesting a reset first. It will all be automatic. I will be fancy and only let someone have ten minutes to use their email code like everyone else does; but time limits are only psychological feel good stuff. Time has nothing to do with it. It is secure or it isn't and my little amateur site will be more secure than most big players.
Ask yourself next time you are in password hell. How do they know your new password is almost like the old one and so should not be accepted as valid? How could they ever know? I won't be able to know or possibly guess. If I look at a stored password all I will see is what looks to be a 128 bit random number. I won't be able to tell what name/password combination originally made it before it was sent up to the server.
Of course if Uncle Sam is into our shit (and they are) none of what I say matters. They will do whatever they want.
If you register and are successful a green message will say 'you have been registered'. So far nobody has registered but K-Dog and some other test dogs I made up and already deleted. 'Fido' was entered and deleted at least ten times while I debugged my code and it should not be possible to get a 'you have been registered' message without actually entering a new user successfully.
You are going OCD on this. ::)
RE
Post by: K-Dog on January 17, 2020, 09:45:03 PM
I've mentioned I'm working on a new web presence before. I am about as far as the functionality Irv Mills (and others) have with blogspots right now. The difference being my code is running in my own server on the very computer I'm typing this on.
Irv's site (A common Blogspot look and feel) Nothing wrong with it if you don't mind the golden handcuffs.
http://theeasiestpersontofool.blogspot.com/2018/10/responding-to-collapse-part-3-decling.html (http://theeasiestpersontofool.blogspot.com/2018/10/responding-to-collapse-part-3-decling.html)
Compare that with a peek at what I'm up to now. This is a screenshot. I started writing an 'article' using my internal editor and added some dummy comments.
(http://chasingthesquirrel.com/pics/kblog.png)
As you see if I just wanted a blogspot looking site where I write the software and host it myself I can be up and running pretty quick. That just polishes what I have now. But I want more than that so this post is just a tease. Kblog really is up on the dark web and if you knew what to type in as a URL you could actually get there. You could even leave a comment. But like I said, not yet. I have plans.
(https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Nazi-Porsche-Adolf-Hitler-and-the-Volkswagen-Beetle.jpg)
I'll be correcting the 'Dune' quote above through my Admin Panel but I'll have to create a Frank Herbert user first. Go ahead and comment on my nascent essay. Your input could make it into the debut Kblog release!
Whenever that is. :icon_sunny:
That was about a year ago. A bit more. Where Am I?
Today I actually have comments working at chasingthesquirrel.com. I loaded it up this morning and I made a quick test. I have it switched off until I have an admin panel written so I can manage users. How hard will that be?
Not very hard because I already wrote it once. The website I described a year ago I finished but I only loaded it up on a local server. I never used that software because I wanted to maintain continuity with what I already had at chasingthesquirrel. My new version reconfigured my server in such a way that my old web page was totally incompatible and could not be mixed in.
The code I wrote a year ago is a code masterpiece that will be a pleasure to reverse engineer. That is what I have to do now. Reverse engineer my own code because I wrote it 400 days ago and can't remember it well enough to just start working on it. I forgot my admin password and I had to search the code to find out how I generated passwords because they are hashed. I always do that.
I was able to hash a new password and drop it into the MySQL database just like the NSA can do. I wonder what they would do if they could not access common databases. Something to think about.
The end result is I have totally hacked into another fully working website (my own) which I have running on my local server. I already was an admin there of course. I can redo the admin panel functions I already know work into the code I am writing now. It is not a cut and paste because I am moving a work of art into more conventional code and it can't just drop in because of the server configuration issue.
Another turn of the circle. But what I have left to do won't take a year.
In the meantime. Visit and experience my rudimentary but still very cool editor. It is in demo mode because everything it sends to my server right now gets an 'under construction' reply. Nothing at the server can be changed.
Double click on an article or comment. I have it set so anything editable will launch my editor with a double click. Or hit a reply or new comment button. When I pull out the under construction blocks you will have to sign in to launch the editor.
Unless I enable anonymous comments at the new comment button. That is what writing the admin panel is about. I need management functions.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Post by: azozeo on January 18, 2020, 02:22:34 PM
(https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Nazi-Porsche-Adolf-Hitler-and-the-Volkswagen-Beetle.jpg)
NICE ! ride :icon_mrgreen:
Post by: K-Dog on January 26, 2020, 02:08:47 PM
Not the way I originally planned and it isn't finished but I have comments working at my place. Register using the login button and choose other stuff.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
You won't be able to log on until I put you in the user list. Right now that is more manual than automatic. That is what I work on next.
I rolled my own!
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscx1.b-cdn.net%2Fcsz%2Fnews%2F800%2F2017%2Fcheapercigar.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
Post by: K-Dog on January 28, 2020, 06:41:18 PM
Doomer duty calls. Expand your horizons. Claim some territory. We are the orange part of the map.
(http://24914743.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/6/6/16665604/9003234.png)
Weapons are being issued with a click of the Login Button:
(https://chasingthesquirrel.com/pics/starttoregister.png)
Then follow:
More Stuff ==>
RE tested it a while back but he will have to redo his registration. I did not have my process nailed down as well as I do now. Not that there is not more work to be done. But it does not have to be all automatic yet. People are not going to line up to comment at chaisingthesquirrel.com anytime soon so if I have to do a bit of cut and pasting here and there I can deal with it.
Diners, please register at chasingthesquirrel.com. You can leave comments there now!
Post by: K-Dog on February 04, 2020, 09:45:09 PM
But what numbers really make it look good? Neither GDP nor Wall Street is a solid measure of the economy. They are fickle and don't measure stability or how well people are actually doing in their everyday lives.
In only two years the number of Americans without health insurance increased from 10.9 to 13.7%. Tax cuts have benefited the already rich and corporations. Mostly the very rich enjoyed cuts and big corporations pay no tax at all. The median wage of full-time workers is more than 3% below what it was 40 years ago. Supposedly everyone who wants a job has one. I know this not to be true.
Real unemployment is not the same thing as the voodoo percentage of reported unemployment. Many people know this is true but not enough do. Unemployment is a complex issue. There are different types. Cyclical, frictional, structural, natural, long-term, real, seasonal, classical, underemployment are nine different types and I doubt these definitions cover all cases.
After the Korean War unemployment was at a percentage point less than it is now. The economy was then in a bubble that burst leading to recession. A health economy will have a natural unemployment rate a percentage point higher than what it is reported at now. Behind Trumps single claim to greatness, a current and quite temporary low unemployment rate, there is much juju.
Consumer culture, the only culture we as Americans in the collective currently know requires optimism as a basic nutrient. Without optimism, consumer culture crashes and it crashes so hard that optimism is essential for life as Americans know it. Living in a reality of happy happy joy joy optimism is mandatory for American consumer culture to function. But unfounded optimism distorts reality, and American optimism is without foundation. Optimism at this point is now fatal.
Nine in ten American tight oil producers have a negative cash flow. The American tight oil industry requires continuing investment to operate and without tax subsidy there will be no profit. Expounding on tax cuts needed to save an industry is a devious way to make the bad look good but Trump and Republicans in general are not above being devious. They love to make people feel good about tax cuts and they get special thrills talking tax cuts to ordinary people who don’t actually benefit from any of the Trump cuts. It is suit schadenfreude.
Consumer culture must consume a diet of optimistic propaganda for food or it fails, but that is not the end of the need for cultural deception. The central banking system, the blood of the global economy and the consumer culture requires continuing growth or it fails. It fails when debts can’t be paid back because growth slows down. The banking system was constructed so new investment pays off older debt. If that cant’ happen economic our fabric rips apart.
Other economic systems are possible but a new economic system would require change that would be violently opposed by those who benefit from the system as it is now. This makes us locked into our current banking system the way Thelma & Louise were locked into their drive off the Dead Horse Point State Park cliff.
Global growth is now dependent on a U.S. tight oil industry which is unable to produce at a profit. The industry only rides on a wave of investor confidence and it must fail. Reality will not be ignored. When the American fracking industry will go tits-up I can’t say. But it must. The tight oil plays are already mature.
Tight oil fields go through a four stage life cycle. Mature is the third stage and it precedes decline, the final stage. The Permian, Eagle Ford, and Bakken tight oil plays are all in the third stage of life cycle. More wells are drilled but less oil now comes up. In an industry that does not yet make profit that is a very bad thing.
Oil is a raw material. 14% of oil use in 2018 was used to make plastic and fertilizer. Agriculture as we know it requires oil or it can’t function. In America 70.56% of oil is used for transport. We have few ways of getting around which don’t use oil. Without oil Americans die.
Oil was discovered at the lowest rates on record in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019. Discoveries in these years at one-tenth any 1960's rate. The quality of oil produced degrades and becoming ever more expensive with a falling EROEI. When the American tight oil collapses there will be nothing to save the American economy. Recession will be here to stay and it won't go away.
Economic crash won’t be avoided despite big brains knowing the truth of our situation for decades. Global greenhouse gas emissions have gone up every year for the last 20 years. Global population continues to grow. Global warming is on track to exceed 1.5 Celsius within ten years. Two degrees will arrive shortly thereafter. Despite the horror of this doomsday scenario Trump and other leaders of his kind do not care. Their philosophy is a last man standing philosophy. Under the circumstances getting the most for themselves and ignoring that others have needs makes sense to them. Sadly being stuck at this primitive level of social awareness is a common madness of the privileged. Elitism kills empathy.
American leaders have not led. Ensconced in personal tribal pursuits our leaders squandered our future and we let them do it. To save humanity low-energy self-sufficient local and regional economies would have to replace contemporary culture all over the world before 1.5 degrees Celsius is reached. Failure to do so will mean biosphere collapse. 1.5 degrees stresses the world too much to feed ten billion people which is how many people will have to be fed when we reach 1.5 degrees C of global warming.
Yet nothing will be done. As a case study the Aral Sea could have been saved but established bureaucracy no matter where on Earth it is, cannot deal with future consequences. The Aral sea is now gone. Around the Aral Sea cotton production introduced in the 1960's had to be maintained and irrigation was applied without limit. Bureaucracy increased pesticide use to maintain existing yield after soil became depleted from lack of crop rotation. The result was a sea half the size of Great Britain became desert with pesticide in the sands limiting life expectancy in the region, which once exceed 60 years, to now be less than 55 years. The local economy once supported a thriving fishing industry. Now there are no fish.
Lessons could have been learned from the Aral sea experience but I suspect most people in America do not even know about the Aral Sea. The sea of a thousand islands is gone. That is what it was once called. Only seas and islands of ignorance remain and they are not limited to the region.
You can comment on any of this using ‘Barking Dog’. Barking Dog is an anonymous user that anyone can log on with using ‘woof’ as the password. You can also register here now with your own username and password by following the ‘More Stuff ==>’ option under my login button.
A day ago I finished my user management software well enough to be useful. This means if you enter a username and password I’ll check it pretty quick. Robots not allowed . I have a button to click to see who registered. Another few clicks and you are in and then you can comment with your own username.
I wrote my comment and user management software and at the end of the job I had a few bugs. I hunted them down, killed them and suddenly realized I had finished a menu bar to manage my users with. Nothing left to fix or do. You can’t see it because you are on the user page and it lives on my administration page. It was the job I was trying to do and the last of a long chain of jobs. When I finished my code it was a surprise. Deep into work and suddenly boom! I was done. A working user management system with registered users and an editor that logged-in users can comment with. A complete interactive website!
It still is a work in progress but all the essentials are finally working. If you register please register with a real email address. Mine is at the bottom of this page.
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Post by: RE on February 05, 2020, 01:21:21 AM
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Post by: Eddie on February 05, 2020, 04:34:41 AM
"A great American comeback" Trump claims as he exaggerates his credit for the current state of the economy. And by the numbers the American economy seems good.
But what numbers really make it look good? Neither GDP nor Wall Street is a solid measure of the economy. They are fickle and don't measure stability or how well people are actually doing in their everyday lives.
In only two years the number of Americans without health insurance increased from 10.9 to 13.7%. Tax cuts have benefited the already rich and corporations. Mostly the very rich enjoyed cuts and big corporations pay no tax at all. The median wage of full-time workers is more than 3% below what it was 40 years ago. Supposedly everyone who wants a job has one. I know this not to be true.
Real unemployment is not the same thing as the voodoo percentage of reported unemployment. Many people know this is true but not enough do. Unemployment is a complex issue. There are different types. Cyclical, frictional, structural, natural, long-term, real, seasonal, classical, underemployment are nine different types and I doubt these definitions cover all cases.
After the Korean War unemployment was at a percentage point less than it is now. The economy was then in a bubble that burst leading to recession. A health economy will have a natural unemployment rate a percentage point higher than what it is reported at now. Behind Trumps single claim to greatness, a current and quite temporary low unemployment rate, there is much juju.
Consumer culture, the only culture we as Americans in the collective currently know requires optimism as a basic nutrient. Without optimism, consumer culture crashes and it crashes so hard that optimism is essential for life as Americans know it. Living in a reality of happy happy joy joy optimism is mandatory for American consumer culture to function. But unfounded optimism distorts reality, and American optimism is without foundation. Optimism at this point is now fatal.
Nine in ten American tight oil producers have a negative cash flow. The American tight oil industry requires continuing investment to operate and without tax subsidy there will be no profit. Expounding on tax cuts needed to save an industry is a devious way to make the bad look good but Trump and Republicans in general are not above being devious. They love to make people feel good about tax cuts and they get special thrills talking tax cuts to ordinary people who don’t actually benefit from any of the Trump cuts. It is suit schadenfreude.
Consumer culture must consume a diet of optimistic propaganda for food or it fails, but that is not the end of the need for cultural deception. The central banking system, the blood of the global economy and the consumer culture requires continuing growth or it fails. It fails when debts can’t be paid back because growth slows down. The banking system was constructed so new investment pays off older debt. If that cant’ happen economic our fabric rips apart.
Other economic systems are possible but a new economic system would require change that would be violently opposed by those who benefit from the system as it is now. This makes us locked into our current banking system the way Thelma & Louise were locked into their drive off the Dead Horse Point State Park cliff.
Global growth is now dependent on a U.S. tight oil industry which is unable to produce at a profit. The industry only rides on a wave of investor confidence and it must fail. Reality will not be ignored. When the American fracking industry will go tits-up I can’t say. But it must. The tight oil plays are already mature.
Tight oil fields go through a four stage life cycle. Mature is the third stage and it precedes decline, the final stage. The Permian, Eagle Ford, and Bakken tight oil plays are all in the third stage of life cycle. More wells are drilled but less oil now comes up. In an industry that does not yet make profit that is a very bad thing.
Oil is a raw material. 14% of oil use in 2018 was used to make plastic and fertilizer. Agriculture as we know it requires oil or it can’t function. In America 70.56% of oil is used for transport. We have few ways of getting around which don’t use oil. Without oil Americans die.
Oil was discovered at the lowest rates on record in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019. Discoveries in these years at one-tenth any 1960's rate. The quality of oil produced degrades and becoming ever more expensive with a falling EROEI. When the American tight oil collapses there will be nothing to save the American economy. Recession will be here to stay and it won't go away.
Economic crash won’t be avoided despite big brains knowing the truth of our situation for decades. Global greenhouse gas emissions have gone up every year for the last 20 years. Global population continues to grow. Global warming is on track to exceed 1.5 Celsius within ten years. Two degrees will arrive shortly thereafter. Despite the horror of this doomsday scenario Trump and other leaders of his kind do not care. Their philosophy is a last man standing philosophy. Under the circumstances getting the most for themselves and ignoring that others have needs makes sense to them. Sadly being stuck at this primitive level of social awareness is a common madness of the privileged. Elitism kills empathy.
American leaders have not led. Ensconced in personal tribal pursuits our leaders squandered our future and we let them do it. To save humanity low-energy self-sufficient local and regional economies would have to replace contemporary culture all over the world before 1.5 degrees Celsius is reached. Failure to do so will mean biosphere collapse. 1.5 degrees stresses the world too much to feed ten billion people which is how many people will have to be fed when we reach 1.5 degrees C of global warming.
Yet nothing will be done. As a case study the Aral Sea could have been saved but established bureaucracy no matter where on Earth it is, cannot deal with future consequences. The Aral sea is now gone. Around the Aral Sea cotton production introduced in the 1960's had to be maintained and irrigation was applied without limit. Bureaucracy increased pesticide use to maintain existing yield after soil became depleted from lack of crop rotation. The result was a sea half the size of Great Britain became desert with pesticide in the sands limiting life expectancy in the region, which once exceed 60 years, to now be less than 55 years. The local economy once supported a thriving fishing industry. Now there are no fish.
Lessons could have been learned from the Aral sea experience but I suspect most people in America do not even know about the Aral Sea. The sea of a thousand islands is gone. That is what it was once called. Only seas and islands of ignorance remain and they are not limited to the region.
You can comment on any of this using ‘Barking Dog’. Barking Dog is an anonymous user that anyone can log on with using ‘woof’ as the password. You can also register here now with your own username and password by following the ‘More Stuff ==>’ option under my login button.
A day ago I finished my user management software well enough to be useful. This means if you enter a username and password I’ll check it pretty quick. Robots not allowed . I have a button to click to see who registered. Another few clicks and you are in and then you can comment with your own username.
I wrote my comment and user management software and at the end of the job I had a few bugs. I hunted them down, killed them and suddenly realized I had finished a menu bar to manage my users with. Nothing left to fix or do. You can’t see it because you are on the user page and it lives on my administration page. It was the job I was trying to do and the last of a long chain of jobs. When I finished my code it was a surprise. Deep into work and suddenly boom! I was done. A working user management system with registered users and an editor that logged-in users can comment with. A complete interactive website!
It still is a work in progress but all the essentials are finally working. If you register please register with a real email address. Mine is at the bottom of this page.QuoteThe last part I wrote about leaving a comment obviously only applies at chasingthesquirrel.com Here comments came out of a box.
Great piece. I agree with most of it.
How are you getting to 1.5 degree rise in 10 years? What is that prediction based upon? Because what I've been reading does get us to a 1.5 to 2 degree rise, but it takes the rest of the century.
In the long run I guess that's not too different. but I'd like to understand why you say that.
Congrats on your site, I will get over there.
Post by: K-Dog on February 05, 2020, 11:50:17 AM
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The Illusion of Saving the World
https://mahb.stanford.edu/post-author/kirkpatrick-sale/
Last month, as you probably know by now, an extraordinary hoopla event descended on Manhattan in the form of a “Climate Action Summit,” summoned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to get the nations of the world finally to take seriously the threat of “global warming” and pledge to actually take serious action to save the world from catastrophe.
The chances of anything useful coming from that are nil.
Oh, yes there will be speeches and promises. Under increasing pressure from alarmed citizens, led by the enlightened youth of the world who know they will be the primary victims of the coming environmental disaster, most national leaders tossed around ideas like carbon taxes, bans on coal mining and nuclear energy, building “retrofitting,” renewable solar fuels, carbon dioxide entrapment, and “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions. Some will be willing to start doing something about one or another, while simultaneously asking for somebody else to pay for the astronomic costs.
But the whole thing is an illusion. The problem is too big, the solutions too imperfect, and the timing, even if everything got fixed in a decade, is too late.
Most scientists believe, with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that if the earth’s temperature should increase by 2 degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit) the rise in sea levels would engulf 280 million people, earthquakes could wipe out 17.6 million, and subsequent droughts and famines would like result in another 231 million, not to mention uncontrolled worldwide migrations, the collapse of many fragile states, and the threat of civil disorder throughout the developed world.
This is why the last global climate gathering, in Paris in 2015, set a goal of reducing global gas emissions enough by 2050 so as to avoid reaching a world temperature of a 1.5 Celsius increase. This would mean reducing emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 and virtually 100 per cent by the target date.
And what is happening? Global gas emissions have increased every year for the last 20 years, with a record set in 2018 (to which the U.S. contributed a record 3.4 per cent), and at this rate, unless miracles occur, we’ll reach 1.5 Celsius by 2030, 2 Celsius shortly thereafter.
Here are two hard truths. In order to reach the Paris Accord goals, according to the Intergovernmental Panel, the world would need to see “rapid and far-reaching” changes in energy systems (immediate end of fossil fuels), land use (agricultural land replanted with trees), city layouts and transportation (to reduce car use), buildings (all retrofitted to renewable energy), vast reduction or elimination of road and air travel, and worldwide checks on human material consumption. In other words, the end of capital civilization as we know it and its replacement by low-energy, pre-industrial, self-sufficient local and regional economies—within a decade.
And two, even those miracles would probably be too late. The ten hottest years on earth, since quasi-global records began to be kept in 1850, have been between 2005 and 2019, and the hottest by far have been the last five years. (July was the hottest month since record-keeping began.) Hot temperatures cause melting ice, at the poles, in Greenland, and at glaciers worldwide, thus reducing reflection of sunlight back into the atmosphere and increasing the amount that warms the surface. Melting permafrost layers release massive amounts of methane gas, a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, increasing temperatures worldwide.
The tragedy is that we have already increased temperatures so much, and created conditions so that they will inevitably increase further, that there is nothing that science—or any United Nations mandate of any kind—can do that will reduce temperatures in ten years. Period.
Last year an English scientist named Jem Bendell wrote a paper that shocked many of his fellow scholars by coming out and saying what everyone knew the data pointed to but no one wanted to admit. He had devoted decades to “sustainable development,” he said, but had to conclude that “the whole field of sustainable development research…is based on the view that we can halt climate change and avert catastrophe. By returning to the science, I discovered that view is no longer tenable,” and there was very little prospect that any kind of social change would save the world from an imminent environmental disaster and “the likelihood of near term societal collapse.”
It is still not a generally accepted scientific position, and its implications are so far-reaching that a great many people prefer simply to ignore it; his fellow scientists criticize it as excessively gloomy, which of course it is. But it is hardly surprising that in the last few years there have grown up several organizations that have confronted that truth head-on. For example, something called the Near Term Human Extinction Support Group started a Facebook group in 2013 and has since added a Near Term Human Extinction Evidence Group, both flourishing with new material every day to comfort or discomfort their adherents.
It’s not necessary to side with the NTHers, but I would advise you not to fall into the delusions offered by the Summitists.
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A reverse quote. K-Dog here. Try the link but if you can't get in I published Kirkpatrick's blog article here for you.
Post by: Eddie on February 05, 2020, 12:55:56 PM
Part of this problem of evaluating the effects of Climate Change (and most problems these days) is finding any good sources that aren't SUPER biased. Climate change is not the only subject full of biased journalism...but you have to go to the hard science, and then be able to make heads or tails of that......which I can personally attest is not an easy thing. Climate publications are some dense shit.
Everyone is basically taking one of two positions. Some people see certain doom. Others see a hoax. Neither of those positions is supported by data....as best as I can tell. I continue to read and try to educate myself, and I'm not easy to convince of anything....by anybody. But I will always consider facts.
It is true that CO2 keeps going up...which bothered me to no end....... until I realized that THAT has happened....but that the expected temperature rise FAR predicted has so far not manifested.
RCP 8.5 is not reality. Not yet anyway. We are below RCP 4.5
The oceans are still taking on CO2 and ocean temps are still rising. This is troubling, of course. Because we could see a hockey stick chart still form..we could go exponential.........but it isn't happening now.
The things FAR and the early IPCC scenarios seems to have gotten wrong have to do with the numbers they came up with for what they call "forcing". Maybe you understand that better than I do. Their methane predictions, too (in spite of melting permafrost, etc)......seem to have been a LOT higher than what is being observed.
And the effects of CO2 in the troposphere might turn out to be a negative feedback loop instead of a positive feedback loop. This is from what Curry wrote..
There is plenty of reason to worry about Climate Change....but widespread sheer panic is an over-reaction. It's gong to play out a little slower than we thought...at least it looks that way to me.
Post by: K-Dog on February 09, 2020, 03:13:13 PM
Post by: K-Dog on February 23, 2020, 10:54:57 AM
Having this channel open is nice because I learned something very bad yesterday.
I took Mrs. Dog to Target and tried to log onto chasingthesquirrel.com which is my personal soapbox if I want to rant in the middle of the night while she shopped.
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This website has been blocked: Hate and Racist Content.
I'm not surprised. I noticed Homeland Security activity recently (that real time globe I have is more than eye candy) and know I'm being suppressed. Looking at French news and playing with Google Translate I even know why. My association with Deep Green Resistance. Deep Green resistance was interviewed on the equivalent of French NPR In a documentary recently. The documentary is on my website. It is one of the K-Dog feature films. All in French but if you watch the last part before some well known French woman closes things you will see MAX WILBERT (whom Sam Mitchell interviewed three weeks ago) and another person I really should know by name having seen him before describing the violent destruction of Western Industrial Civilization and the inevitability of armed struggle. I have yet to translate it.
Cut and paste MAX WILBERT into your search box and search my website. I link to Max's Website. Max and I are both in Seattle. I hope we meet. As far as I know I am only locked out of the American retail network so far. The process of associating me with drooling nutcase fake news environmental doom porn has only begun.
Clear reasons why the FBI has me in the Doghouse. Nothing paranoid about it. I have half a dozen links to deep green environmentalism and WE are not fucking around. In the French documentary guns are shown. My Gun Is This Info.
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I'll be calling Target Monday.
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Post by: azozeo on February 23, 2020, 03:26:05 PM
The funny thing about making progress at my own website is that it makes me come to the Diner more.
Having this channel open is nice because I learned something very bad yesterday.
I took Mrs. Dog to Target and tried to log onto chasingthesquirrel.com which is my personal soapbox if I want to rant in the middle of the night while she shopped.QuoteThis website has been blocked: Hate and Racist Content.
I'm not surprised. I noticed Homeland Security activity recently (that real time globe I have is more than eye candy) and know I'm being suppressed. Looking at French news and playing with Google Translate I even know why. My association with Deep Green Resistance. Deep Green resistance was interviewed on the equivalent of French NPR In a documentary recently. The documentary is on my website. It is one of the K-Dog feature films. All in French but if you watch the last part before some well known French woman closes things you will see MAX WILBERT (whom Sam Mitchell interviewed three weeks ago) and another person I really should know by name having seen him before describing the violent destruction of Western Industrial Civilization and the inevitability of armed struggle. I have yet to translate it.
Cut and paste MAX WILBERT into your search box and search my website. I link to Max's Website. Max and I are both in Seattle. I hope we meet. As far as I know I am only locked out of the American retail network so far. The process of associating me with drooling nutcase fake news environmental doom porn has only begun.
Clear reasons why the FBI has me in the Doghouse. Nothing paranoid about it. I have half a dozen links to deep green environmentalism and WE are not fucking around. In the French documentary guns are shown. My Gun Is This Info.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amishcustoms.net%2Fimages270px%2Fkennels%2FBarnYard_0806_8323.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
I'll be calling Target Monday.
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Have your "gal" dial up Nicaragua while your at it amigo :coffee:
Journalistas have short life spans.... Be careful !
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-21/nicaragua-newspaper-president-ortega-la-prensa?utm_source=pocket-newtab (https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-21/nicaragua-newspaper-president-ortega-la-prensa?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
Post by: K-Dog on February 23, 2020, 04:56:33 PM
The funny thing about making progress at my own website is that it makes me come to the Diner more.
Having this channel open is nice because I learned something very bad yesterday.
I took Mrs. Dog to Target and tried to log onto chasingthesquirrel.com which is my personal soapbox if I want to rant in the middle of the night while she shopped.QuoteThis website has been blocked: Hate and Racist Content.
I'm not surprised. I noticed Homeland Security activity recently (that real time globe I have is more than eye candy) and know I'm being suppressed. Looking at French news and playing with Google Translate I even know why. My association with Deep Green Resistance. Deep Green resistance was interviewed on the equivalent of French NPR In a documentary recently. The documentary is on my website. It is one of the K-Dog feature films. All in French but if you watch the last part before some well known French woman closes things you will see MAX WILBERT (whom Sam Mitchell interviewed three weeks ago) and another person I really should know by name having seen him before describing the violent destruction of Western Industrial Civilization and the inevitability of armed struggle. I have yet to translate it.
Cut and paste MAX WILBERT into your search box and search my website. I link to Max's Website. Max and I are both in Seattle. I hope we meet. As far as I know I am only locked out of the American retail network so far. The process of associating me with drooling nutcase fake news environmental doom porn has only begun.
Clear reasons why the FBI has me in the Doghouse. Nothing paranoid about it. I have half a dozen links to deep green environmentalism and WE are not fucking around. In the French documentary guns are shown. My Gun Is This Info.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://www.amishcustoms.net/images270px/kennels/BarnYard_0806_8323.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
I'll be calling Target Monday.
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Have your "gal" dial up Nicaragua while your at it amigo :coffee:
Journalistas have short life spans.... Be careful !
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-21/nicaragua-newspaper-president-ortega-la-prensa?utm_source=pocket-newtab (https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-21/nicaragua-newspaper-president-ortega-la-prensa?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
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January 31, 2020
The attack on the Mayagna team happened deep in forest inNicaragua
Armed males have actually assaulted an indigenous neighborhood in Nicaragua, murder a minimum of six people and also kidnapping one more 10, civil liberties teams claim.
Police verified 2 fatalities and also stated they were checking out. The factor for the distinction in the toll is vague.
http://www.youtube.com/v/w6iRNVwslM4
A bad moon rising down there.
Post by: K-Dog on May 04, 2020, 10:22:47 AM
KDFP
K-Dog For President
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That is only a picture but go to my website in the right sidebar and you will see something that works when you mouse over it. An exclusive article at the Diner should launch the race but the tool is in Demo mode now.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Go there and fix it! Somebody selected Trump.
A bone in every bowl !
Post by: monsta666 on May 04, 2020, 12:02:02 PM
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What would you say to swing voters who happen to be cat lovers K-Dog?
Post by: K-Dog on May 04, 2020, 01:29:58 PM
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What would you say to swing voters who happen to be cat lovers K-Dog?
Let them eat fish.
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Post by: Surly1 on May 04, 2020, 05:21:51 PM
KDFP
K-Dog For President(https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/kdfp.png)
That is only a picture but go to my website in the right sidebar and you will see something that works when you mouse over it. An exclusive article at the Diner should launch the race but the tool is in Demo mode now.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Go there and fix it! Somebody selected Trump.
A bone in every bowl !
Couldn’t vote.
Post by: K-Dog on May 04, 2020, 07:23:41 PM
KDFP
K-Dog For President(https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/kdfp.png)
That is only a picture but go to my website in the right sidebar and you will see something that works when you mouse over it. An exclusive article at the Diner should launch the race but the tool is in Demo mode now.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Go there and fix it! Somebody selected Trump.
A bone in every bowl !
Couldn’t vote.
A mystery. How I can use it fine but someone else can't? I changed file permissions so it might work now. I don't understand why it worked for me but nobody else. I don't like it being stuck on Trump. Thank you for letting me know.
Post by: RE on May 05, 2020, 01:31:27 AM
KDFP
K-Dog For President(https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/kdfp.png)
That is only a picture but go to my website in the right sidebar and you will see something that works when you mouse over it. An exclusive article at the Diner should launch the race but the tool is in Demo mode now.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Go there and fix it! Somebody selected Trump.
A bone in every bowl !
Couldn’t vote.
A mystery. How I can use it fine but someone else can't? I changed file permissions so it might work now. I don't understand why it worked for me but nobody else. I don't like it being stuck on Trump. Thank you for letting me know.
If you ever get on the Ballot, I'll break my rule and vote for you. :icon_sunny:
RE
Post by: K-Dog on May 05, 2020, 11:53:25 AM
KDFP
K-Dog For President(https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/kdfp.png)
That is only a picture but go to my website in the right sidebar and you will see something that works when you mouse over it. An exclusive article at the Diner should launch the race but the tool is in Demo mode now.
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Go there and fix it! Somebody selected Trump.
A bone in every bowl !
Couldn’t vote.
A mystery. How I can use it fine but someone else can't? I changed file permissions so it might work now. I don't understand why it worked for me but nobody else. I don't like it being stuck on Trump. Thank you for letting me know.
If you ever get on the Ballot, I'll break my rule and vote for you. :icon_sunny:
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Getting on the ballot is the thing.
http://www.youtube.com/v/wqYNXUWqDxg
If the tool can be made to work and it goes viral and I get an appearance on Saturday Night Live...
Then Savannah gets parked by the Rose Garden.
The demo mode failed. Things appeared to be working fine but I can't test my website over a proxy when Javascript is involved. Surly's feedback was invaluable.
I thought things were working and I posted the new demo mode. Boom. As expected since I have the tracking globe going on: I get not one; not two; but THREE pings within a second of each other all from the 'US' with default longitude and latitude in Kansas, accuracy radius 1000 miles. This happened in the fabled New York minute and I have not enjoyed that much popularity for a while.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://figuresworld.net/movies_tv/matrix/smithbust_m.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
But like I say, things appear to be working.
Then Surly can't switch the demo vote. I go to my website and things are mysteriously foobar.
I had to talk to My web provider and they had to reset my 'cache' for things to work right. Now the demo mode is working again but to be fair I do have small changes in the code so did the DEEP STATE interfere? Can't say for sure.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://bcdbimages.s3.amazonaws.com/disney/al/knows.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
So moving on. Please let me know if you can move the test vote around on:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
A demo mode turned out to be essential!
An appearance on Joe Rogan would help too.
Post by: Eddie on May 05, 2020, 12:07:19 PM
So moving on. Please let me know if you can move the test vote around on:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
A demo mode turned out to be essential!
An appearance on Joe Rogan would help too.
The demo is working now. I tried it when you first posted it....I didn't mention it then because I just thought maybe I misunderstood, and that it wasn't actually operational yet due to you turning it off to work on it or something.
Post by: Surly1 on May 05, 2020, 12:28:12 PM
Arrrrrrgh! At first I couldn't see the display. Then I refreshed and I could see fit. KD had one vote. I voted for K-Dog. It didn't register. Then I voted for Biden. It TOOK the vote from K-Dog and gave it to Biden.
So moving on. Please let me know if you can move the test vote around on:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
A demo mode turned out to be essential!
An appearance on Joe Rogan would help too.
The demo is working now. I tried it when you first posted it....I didn't mention it then because I just thought maybe I misunderstood, and that it wasn't actually operational yet due to you turning it off to work on it or something.
Shit's broke. Or I am. 50-50 either way.
Post by: Eddie on May 05, 2020, 12:43:26 PM
Post by: RE on May 05, 2020, 12:47:44 PM
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Post by: K-Dog on May 05, 2020, 12:49:08 PM
So moving on. Please let me know if you can move the test vote around on:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
A demo mode turned out to be essential!
An appearance on Joe Rogan would help too.
The demo is working now. I tried it when you first posted it....I didn't mention it then because I just thought maybe I misunderstood, and that it wasn't actually operational yet due to you turning it off to work on it or something.
Thanks. I appreciate the feedback. In demo mode or in real mode it will work the same. When I start counting votes you will be able to move your vote around on growing totals. Your vote should always move. In demo mode all I have done is trick the code into thinking everyone comes from the same IP address so there can only be a single vote saved that gets updated and which is shared by everybody.
Each I.P. address will get a vote and a voter will be able to change their vote at any time. Perhaps I'll identify everyone who uses a proxy and throw those votes away if that becomes an issue. It is a living project. All I save is an I.P. address, the choice of vote, and a timestamp. A returning I.P. address can update a vote choice but they having voted cannot remove their vote or add a new one. They can only change it.
Getting all this working on a real sever is a bit mysterious and I still may break things when I tweak file permissions. Cache issues can mess up my work flow. I try and fix something make the right choice and then when the server does not update the file I think I messed up or it tells me something is working when it is not. Anybody from a remote location gets fresh files.
Post by: K-Dog on July 07, 2020, 03:19:16 PM
February made me shiver. Bad news on my doorstep and I couldn't take one more step. With no where to go, no way could I know which way to go. I was out of luck but not alone. Music died and left us with many widowed brides. Many have been touched deep inside. Widowed too are lonely teenaged broncin' bucks. Up to dance without a chance in halftime air of sweet perfume but air which behind a mask is without a taste.
I have the rest on my blog:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
Post by: Eddie on July 07, 2020, 03:39:30 PM
The Chevy's at The Levee and The Levee is Dry
February made me shiver. Bad news on my doorstep and I couldn't take one more step. With no where to go, no way could I know which way to go. I was out of luck but not alone. Music died and left us with many widowed brides. Many have been touched deep inside. Widowed too are lonely teenaged broncin' bucks. Up to dance without a chance in halftime air of sweet perfume but air which behind a mask is without a taste.
I have the rest on my blog:
https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/)
I followed you home from JHK's blog and read it already. Well done. I like the Don McClean touch.
Collapse is baked in the pie, along with 4 and 20 BLM activists.
Post by: K-Dog on August 26, 2020, 05:25:24 PM
new banner |
Today I replace the banner on my web page.
Civilizations are born and they grow. They enjoy a moment in the sun and then they die. My new banner tells the story.
Go to https://chasingthesquirrel.com/ (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/) to see it in action. Watch a few buildings grow and die. The city grows while growth overcomes entropy. At some time growth slows, entropy wins, and the city begins to die. When the city dies it starts over again.
(http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php?action-media;sa=media;in=5230)
Post by: K-Dog on October 10, 2020, 04:41:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/EG9voEWZ4Dc
The electric crackle of doom fills the air.
The electric crackle of doom fills the air.
Post by: K-Dog on December 02, 2020, 05:56:00 PM
Quotewe need to be able to migrate the ENTIRE almost 8 year history of Diner Comments from SMF to the new Database.
In your dreams.
Had a feeling that was the case.
The Diner Forum shall remain on SMF until the SUN goes Red Giant.
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Actually all I have to do is make my page post the same info and have a separate page for display. I see it as doable. It would take a while because of the things that have to be added. I would have to support emojis and such.
Post by: K-Dog on December 02, 2020, 06:06:56 PM
Here it is in reverse,
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Wednesday Dec. 2nd,
The last video I posted here had an invitation to participate in a Zoom Meeting at Burning Pink. It was on their page at You-Tube. I am happy to have participated in their Zoom; and to have discovered Burning Pink.
On the Burning Pink You-Tube channel are many videos. So many videos so little time. Arrrgggghh ! This one jumped out. A must see, it's short. Be the crunch from climate change or simple loss of oil resources. The end is the same. Going ZERO CARBON is the answer regardless.http://www.youtube.com/v/4HjZd2pleiM
Shopping with Roger Hallam
This is what it is all about.