Where is PETA?

2/6/25 House Oversight Committee:

"WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation held a hearing titled, “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty.” Subcommittee members discussed how the federal government wastes millions of dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal research."

Yes.  Gender reassignment on animals to study the effects.  The horror never ends from craziness.   $241 million a year at least:

"Rep. Crane: “Wow…Mr. Goodman did you also say that it was your estimation that $241 million dollars has been spent on transgender animal testing?”

"Mr. Goodman: “Yes and I would say that is the floor, not the ceiling because the information on federal databases is pretty incomplete.”"

They are not just wasting money.   They are torturing animals.   They could just look at humans, I think. 

The Joys of Old

Dental appointment today.  The dentist said periodontal disease has reached the deep cleaning stage, where they numb one side of your mouth while they dig deep below the gum line to remove plaque.   I did not sign up for dental coverage this year and I wish I had: $1200.

Bad but both of my parents were wearing dentures much younger than I am.  My mother was completely toothless by 50 and my father only had some lower teeth left. 

And three 20th century fillings need replacement. 

A Morbid Tool

Asteroid launcher let's you toy with Asteroid size, speed, and impact point.

0.500" is Too Small, 0.505" is Too Large

The carbon fiber axis is .494" OD.  So I asked the mills to cut a .497" hole in the center of the bearing block.  Still too tight.  .500" still too tight.  .505" slides on to easily.  .502" needed a little polish with 320 sandpaper to press fit.  The final step was .5025".  This presses on just fine. (And yes, a CNC mill can make a hole .0005" larger with great precision.)

I suspect after a few hundred rotations, the axis will polish a nice smooth bearing in the acetal.

I have now started the easy part; putting four 6-32 holes in each of what were going to be bearing blocks, but are now bearings as well.  I just position the .1065" drill bit above the right face and drill both sides in one cut. 

Drilled and tapped.

I Anxiously Await the Pious Reaction

 

Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam

A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality

From Amsterdam University Press.

One More Thing That I Am Gaga Over

The radar/weather display. 

Fountain of Youth

Musk has posted a age bucket distribution of those who have Social Security Numbers and are still listed as alive.  The 448 above 190 are suspicious. 

This may just be bad data.  My first job at Idsho Corrections was auditing the Date of Birth fields in our prisoner data base.  Many were clearly invalid.  

Some were fields swapped.  Month 30, day 11, year 1955.  Some were default values 1/1/1900.  A few were incomprehensible: 155/255/1867.  Yes, the data entry form was undemanding.

By the time I was done,  I had used a regular expression approach to fix most of the 15,000 DOBs that had a plausible value.   A few hundred were flagged for human intervention. 

I do wonder how many dead people are still collecting Social Security.   They was a serial killer in Sacramento some years ago who was killing and burying her elderly tenants and cashing their checks.

You can see why Democrats are so upset with Musk.