In Case You Haven't Heard - part the first

In January 2013, DeSantis — newly elected to Florida's 6th Congressional District, which covers Jacksonville through the north of Orlando — was one of the 67 House Republicans who voted against flood insurance assistance for victims of Hurricane Sandy, after it recently wreaked havoc on the New York-New Jersey area.
-- that was then

As part of this request, Governor DeSantis is also asking that President Biden approve a FEMA federal cost share of 100 percent for 60 days to support recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
-- this is now

Low lifes have no shame.

By The Numbers - part the eighteenth

Vlad the Imbecile is waving the nucular threat wrt Ukraine. Not the first time for Vlad, of course. By this one surmises he's talking about, so called, tactical nukes. So, what is a tactical nuke?

For example, the U.S.'s newest version of its B61 nuclear bomb can release 0.3, 1.5, 10 or 50 kilotons of explosive energy. In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was about 15 kilotons.
-- here

Would Sleepy Joe and the fractured European NATO folks reply in kind?

[S]ome 2,000 of Russia's nuclear warheads are short-range, so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons kept in storage facilities throughout the country.
-- here

Sleepy Joe has: 230. So it happens that Sleepy Joe does have some amount of missile-delivered tactical nukes:

We estimate that one or two of the 20 missiles on the USS Tennessee and subsequent subs will be armed with the W76-2, either singly or carrying multiple warheads. Each W76-2 is estimated to have an explosive yield of about five kilotons.

If you tldr; the link, the USS Tennessee is a missile sub.

For comparison, the biggest chemical bomb has a yield of a mere 11 tons. OTOH, the largest bunker-buster (aka, penetrator weapon) carries 5,300 lbs of explosive.

By The Numbers - part the seventeenth

Back when post-Maris home run hitters got close to 60/61 for the season (not their indiviual number of games played, or at bats), carpers carped that the 154 game season was gone (1962, cute), so any 60+ season was de-valued. Don't hear that much anymore, and even the drug shooters get a pass.

Anyway, Judge went yard in game 147, so he's got 7 more for a 'legit' record and a full dozen to get it honestly

I'm Back

Well... it turns out that fixing a fucked up Ubuntu upgrade can be salvaged. It's not possible to do it by hand, following the various recipes available on the innterTubes, for the fucked up reason that the programs/functions one needs (using just the live-USB Ubuntu) can't be built to the USB.

But, if you have access to the innterTubes with some other machine, then this program (with some help from Window's World linux support) will allow you to fix a busted MBR. It also claims to work for UEFI issues, and trolling the innterTubes finds posting attesting. There was a time, lo these many years, when I had to fix machines at the store front (for-profit, of course) 'computer school' where I taught the illiterate, unwashed, and often court-compelled, Office Automation (the term not yet au courant). The tool of choice was Norton Disk Doctor. Ah the days of PC/MS DoS.

No Class Act

The Government generally points to the alleged urgent need to conduct a risk assessment of possible unauthorized disclosure of purported 'classified records.' But there is no indication any purported 'classified records' were disclosed to anyone.
-- latest Batshit J. Moron filing/2022

Well, boy howdy! The NSA knows all, and they will have to disclose what's been going on with respect to these documents since 21 January 2021. I'm willing to bet there's a bunch of traffic between The Moron and the Russians. Trump Tower Moscow is in the offing. It wouldn't be the first time that The Moron has 'declassified and disclosed' secrets to the Russians.

Hydrogen Bombs

There've been two reports recently, touting hydrogen as a clean fuel. And, naturally, burning hydrogen in some types of engine yields only water vapor (well, some bit of NO_x). One is German locomotives, while the other is California setting 2035 as the year for autos being either electric or hydrogen.

It's worth noting that there are two kinds of hydrogen vehicles: those using hydrogen fuel cells (been around for decades) and those using a 'normal' internal combustion engine, just using liquified hydrogen rather than gasoline or diesel. The au courant meme is hydrogen as burned fuel.

So, campers, where's all that hydrogen going to come from? The (nearly, at least until humans run the tap dry) infinite supply of sea water means an infinite supply (ditto) of hydrogen. But guess what? They Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. The laws of thermodynamics dictate that you'll never harvest as much energy from a process as you inject into it; modulo nucular.

With current tech, electrolysis generally produces hydrogen at about 75 per cent efficiency. So to create a kilo of pure hydrogen fuel, which holds about 39.4kWh of energy, it takes 52.5kWh.

Of course, that's just the pure energy budget, but since the Zeppelins we don't use gaseous hydrogen. We use liquified gas, just like LNG. And it takes a wee bit of more energy budget to make LHG.

To use it as fuel, it needs to be compressed to incredible pressure (generally 5,000 to 10,000 PSI) or kept as a liquid — which means cooling it to less than -253ºC, or just 20 degrees above absolute zero.
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So, 90 per cent efficient to make, 54 per cent efficient by the time it's in your tank — without even taking into account the energy needed to transport it.
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So, hydrogen's pretty rubbish as a fuel for our machines.

So, we'll use a stream of wee electrons from coal fired power plants to make the hydrogen? Sounds like a plan.

Also of note; hydrogen powered cars and trucks do not constitute some new tech. Far from it. UPS, among others, adopted (a bit) of LNG powered delivery trucks years ago. And that cute emergency generator in your back yard works on the same principle of gas driven piston internal combustion. Not cutting edge.

Christmas In August

It's worth repeating: the materials listed in The Affidavit are not the haul from the subsequent search. Oh my, no. They are the stuff that Dear Leader Yo! Semite of Thigh Land didn't really want. IOW, just banal shit. He kept the Good Stuff, until the SWAT team showed up. He shoulda known the jig was up, but he is an idiot, after all.