Posts by Gary Charpentier

41) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 116 (Message 2134136)
Posted 28 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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knife
42) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2134130)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Just what passes for ordinary typical day in day out policing in much of the USA
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/us/mississippi-officers-sentencing-goon-squad-thursday/index.html
43) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2134129)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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*moral.... because there will only be losers, losses and suffering for both sides.
Hamas and Zionists enter one man leaves. This is the only solution. They have to be left alone without any outside attempts to impose peace to fight until one side or the other finally begs mercy.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=two+men+enter+one+man+leaves#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:55fba676,vid:pmRAiUPdRjk,st:0
44) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 116 (Message 2134128)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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ionizing
45) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2134118)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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That's why I have to disagree again. It was solely Hamas' decision to declare war on Israel on Oct 7th
Simply another battle in a war that has been continuous for several decades. Or do you forget the near daily rockets shot across the line of forces, the naval blockade of the coastline?

Same in Korea. If Kim tomorrow decides to invade the South and 1,000 dead lie on the streets, then Kim would have been started a war exactly at this date
In the case of Korea formal declarations of war still exist and the armistice did not end that war.
46) Message boards : Politics : We are being slimed... #2 (Message 2134100)
Posted 21 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Bread: A simple staple?


Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class
wrote:
... Others lambast cheap sliced white as unhealthy and unsustainable. How did our most basic foodstuff become a source of conflict and division?

The cheapest loaf in my nearest supermarket costs 45p. The cheapest loaf in my local artisanal bakery costs £5. Which of these facts winds you up?...

... ultra-processing enables supermarkets to sell bread so cheaply...

... how can something that requires only four ingredients – flour, water, yeast and salt – diverge so wildly on price?...

... Technology has since relegated white sliced to the cheapest option ... “After being told for centuries that white bread was too good for the likes of them, it isn’t surprising that easy-to-eat, comforting white bread is what people wanted,”...

... What went so wrong? Let’s start with the flour...

... The manufacturer is not required legally to list the various “processing aids”, usually enzymes, used mainly to increase volume and prolong softness. “Industrial bread is the poster child of ultra-processed food,” says the Real Bread Campaign’s Young. “It’s made using a whole cocktail of additives.” The world’s largest review into ultra-processed food found last month that it is “directly linked to 32 harmful effects to health, including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health and early death”...

... “the ultra-processing is just one aspect of it. Even if you don’t care about that, according to UK dietary guidance, this bread is high in salt and sugar … At 278 calories per 100g, it has a higher calorie density than a Big Mac. It is also incredibly soft.”

Softness gives bread the illusion of freshness and makes us eat more of it...

... Maybe we can all agree that 45p is no bargain for an ultra-processed product and that £5 for a sourdough loaf prices out most people. “We need a grassroots revolution,”...




All too slimy soft?...

Eat well and healthy!

Enjoy!!
Martin

Perhaps on your side of the pond they don't disclose https://www.730sagestreet.com/wonder-bread-ingredients/
47) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2134070)
Posted 20 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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This war started at Oct 7th.
29 October 1956 might be a better start date. Then again how many armistices have there been versus how many actual peace treaties? How many were left not signing?

The issue is the arms suppliers impose stop shooting on the parties but the conflict remains and as long as it does the fighting will resume.
48) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2134034)
Posted 19 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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As NY begins to seize assets poor Donnie boy will start owing huge piles of capital gains taxes to the IRS, State of NY and NYC. Those poor mortgage holders will get their share. The IRS and NY tax liens will get their share. A lot more buildings will have to be sold to pay those taxes thus exploding the tax bill even more. Perhaps when the last bit of Rump is sold off he might get enough for a Covfefe!
49) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2134032)
Posted 19 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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low altitude when the pilot has to fear anti-aircraft fire.
What anti-aircraft fire? Perhaps that should have been a huge alarm bell ringing in the pilot's head.

[back to topic:]The IDF accidently shot some of the Israeli hostages who freed themselves and walked out to the IDF. So, there's something wrong with IDF's orders or the rules of engagement.
obvious

And there's clearly something wrong with Hamas ignoring all a century old rules and customs of war. That is: combatants have to wear clearly identifiably[sic] uniforms.
Israel does not believe Hamas is a country as does most of the rest of the world and as far as I can find those rules of war only apply to countries.* If Israel were to recognize Hamas domestically all hell would break out and internationally Israel would be unquestionably guilty of war crimes. If Israel had to positively identify if a shadow was non-combatant, friend or foe before firing it would cost Israel a lot of soldiers, however that is what the Hague convention requires. Perhaps if you can't pay the price you shouldn't start a war. In any case as Hamas isn't recognized as a country, being smart, they don't wear uniforms to fight costing Israel public opinion and public opinion is a legitimate weapon of war.

*Privateers certainly did not obey them, even when they had backing of Sovereigns. Nor do they today off Somalia. Neither Israel or Hamas have signed the 1907 Hague conventions.
[aside]US and Brittan firebombings of WWII, both of which had signed Hague, was "justified" on four reasons. 1) There was at least one war material factory in the city destroyed. 2) The residents were paying taxes and however indirect thus were waging war. 3) Some residents worked at the war material factory. 4) expediency to end the conflict.
Historians will for the next millennia debate if the justifications were real or sufficient. As the Allies were the victors they got to write the history and decide if any charges were to be made. In the case of Germany, in light of the Holocaust one could advance the argument that the rules of war needed to be discarded to end the crime against humanity. In the case of Japan only a very thin case could be made on the basis of their self declared intention to fight to the last man; to make them stare in the face exactly what that declared intention would look like.
50) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 2134027)
Posted 18 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Thor has arrived in Southern California.

All Hail Thor.
51) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2133989)
Posted 17 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Hamas say over 6,000 of its men have dies and over 70% of the total are women and children, this would mean there are no civilian men casualties.
And this is in line with Benji's thinking that there are no male civilians in Gaza and all are Hamas.
52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCCXXXII(332) (Message 2133988)
Posted 17 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Perhaps because green beer?
53) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2133980)
Posted 17 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Isrrial has a lomg history of attacking the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
This post is misleading. Intentional?
The Israeli attack certainly was. There is no question they intended to fire and they hit what they aimed at.

IIRC and it has been a lot of years, reports from then were that the Israeli aircraft approached close enough they had to have seen the US flag flying from the ship.

No one is saying what the orders were, but I suspect they were of the kind, it is moves kill it. Essentially the same orders that Benji has given the IDF today as to Gaza.

I also think that the political higher ups just issued a bungled order and assumed the IDF knew enough without being explicitly told don't shoot if it is our allay. One has to be very explicit in giving orders to warriors.
54) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133947)
Posted 16 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Is the union for United mechanics negotiating a new contract?

There are some possibilities.
1) FOD damage e.g. something tossed up by a tire on the takeoff roll
2) Forgot to put the screws in
3) Screws backed out due to vibration
4) Metal fatigue
5) Wrong screws

If the screws are missing then 2 or 3 are the prime culprits.

If there are still parts of the panel under the screws then 1 or 4 are the prime culprits.

5 becomes obvious if a wrong one is on the plane.

Some combination of all the above.

Fortunately a very non-critical part of the skin. Only effect would be to burn a little more jet A.
55) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133939)
Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Yet another design/maintenance/operating 'incident' waiting to happen...
Yes, crap under the safety cover. Expect that isn't a Boeing only problem.
56) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCCXXXII(332) (Message 2133916)
Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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So glad to know that everything went well. Take the time you need for your body to knit itself back. eat healthy. stay away from bugs. Get rest. Do rehab.
57) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133915)
Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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In all seriousness: Scary.
Now you are learning about what is normal SOP standard high safety measures fully vetted by safety regulators worldwide.
58) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133910)
Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Well that answers that, sort of.

Fifty injured after pilot ‘lost instrumentation’ on LATAM flight from Sydney to Auckland.

The pilot of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plunged suddenly en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, injuring 50 people, reportedly told passengers after the terrifying incident that his “gauges just blanked out” and he “lost all ability to fly the plane”......

So just who was joining the mile high club in the cockpit and flipped the breaker while they were swinging from the chandelier?

Someone has made up CYA story.

OMG! See Juan Browne's latest Latam update. Cockpit meal may well be the cause!

Do they have the CVR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VkV9RS-PI
59) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 2133836)
Posted 13 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Boeing may have hit some turbulence.
”Boeing whistleblower found dead.”

Lots of questions for investigators. Security cameras? Dash Cams? Contents of the alleged note? Forensic evidence, prints, spray patterns, telephone logs, associate and friend interviews? The list will be very long. After all Putin's friends keep walking out of windows several stories high.
60) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 116 (Message 2133834)
Posted 13 Mar 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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wadi


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