TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[moose eater]

That's a burmese python in the Everglades. The snake is about to ingest a 77 lb. white tail deer. (They don't get very big way down south, but the snakes do.) Note the 'corkscrew' shape of the snake's tail wrapped around the deer legs. The snake used that as leverage to push the deer into its mouth.

Scientists Photograph Giant Python Swallowing a Full-Sized Whitetail Whole in First-of-Its-Kind Discovery

Researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida photographed a Burmese python swallowing a full-sized whitetail deer in December 2022. The photos confirmed one of the researchers' worst fears: that the invasive snakes are eating Florida deer on a large scale.

www.yahoo.com

There probably needs to be an "Ewwwww!!!!" emoji here at the bottom bar.

 

[trichrider]

this is close...

 

[Ca++]

308 quarter pounders, in one sitting. Look at the size of it's head. Imagine getting your mouth that wide, and parking Bambi.

 

[Ca++]

Looking at fireworks, I discover that firework videos exist, for desensitising your dog.

Could this work on neighbours?

 

[trichrider]

 

[moose eater]

 

[moose eater]

 

[trichrider]

The Wizard of Oz…

The Straw Man represents that fictional ALL CAPS legal fiction —The PERSON. He wanted a brain but got a Certificate — The Birth Certificate.

The Tin Man — The TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number). He was a robotic avatar, who worked tirelessly until his body literally froze up & stopped functioning. The heartless & emotionless robot creature who worked himself to death because he had no heart or soul.

The Cowardly Lion was a bully, but was actually a true coward when someone stood up to him, like most bullies. He lacked true courage and in the end, the Wizard gave him an Official Recognition Award — Authority & Status.

The Wizard of Oz used magic, smoke, flames & holograms, but all of it were tricks & illusions to push fear & compliance to make people do what he commanded. The truth is the Wizard has NO real power & only used illusions to create false power & authority.

The Wicked Witch pushed fear through intimidation. She was after Toto and controlled the flying monkey police, the policy enforcers, the mischievous demons, which also represents the BAR Association who attack & control all the little people for the Great Crown Wizard, the crooked Bankers of Oz, obsessed with gold.

In the field of poppies, they were not REAL humans, so drugs had no effect on them, but Dorothy was drugged. The Wizard of Oz was written at the time when Rockefeller & the Big Pharma began to take over medicine & education. The Crown was actually the largest drug dealer & after their take-over of drug distribution in China, they began to expand all around the world.

Toto was what the Wicked Witch was really after. Toto in Latin means “in total”. Toto exposed the Wizard of Oz and had no fear, despite being very small compared to the Great Wizard, so no one noticed him. Toto pulled the curtain on the Wizard & his magical scams. ‘Curtain’ also means the End of an Act or scene! He pulled the curtain & started barking until others paid attention, hypothetically giving everyone the “Red Pill”. The curtain hid the corporate legal fiction & its false courts. So, no matter how small your bark is, it can be heard!

Credit: Island Healing

 

[mean mr.mustard]

So RFK is going to win...?

 

[Dime]

So RFK is going to win...?

I wonder if he will attack the cia if the republicans win.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

We'll have to watch another ancient kids' movie to be sure.

 

[tobedetermined]

"Ontario plans to remove Toronto bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, University . . . " Yes, that says remove. Toronto's traffic is at gridlock so these downtown streets should never have had bike lanes in the first place and even though our premier (the province's head honcho) is a certified turd, he is doing some very popular things at the moment. Another one . . . last week . . . he just gave everybody a $200 bonus. Yeah, everybody in the province. 15 million people. I am getting one. My wife is. Every taxpayer and their family members. I think there may be an election coming . . .

 

[Dime]

Vast ancient Mayan city is found in a Mexican jungle — by accident

The site, dubbed "Valeriana," was found under jungle canopy using drone mapping technology known as LiDAR.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[armedoldhippy]

Ontario plans to remove Toronto bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, University

we have bike lanes here, with all but two of them on roads i'd need a death wish to pedal down. same fools responsible for THAT forced the local emergency room to re-route ambulances coming in so they could use one lane to put curbs in for flowers, dogwood trees etc. "i DGAF if patients have to ride further, aint them flowers purty ?"

 

[moose eater]

"Ontario plans to remove Toronto bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, University . . . " Yes, that says remove. Toronto's traffic is at gridlock so these downtown streets should never have had bike lanes in the first place and even though our premier (the province's head honcho) is a certified turd, he is doing some very popular things at the moment. Another one . . . last week . . . he just gave everybody a $200 bonus. Yeah, everybody in the province. 15 million people. I am getting one. My wife is. Every taxpayer and their family members. I think there may be an election coming . . .

Sounds like he's doing a Palin/Dunleavy, trying to buy votes with provincial money?

 

[tobedetermined]

trying to buy votes with provincial money?

Exactly. Taxpayer's money . . . but the great unwashed somehow don't see it that way.

I am going to buy some seeds with my cheque.

 

[tobedetermined]

To continue my hearing aid saga . . .

I have decided to deep dive into hearing aid programming. Surprisingly, it is not hard . . . but it is complicated and it does require a rudimentary knowledge of acoustics to dial it in properly. Which . . . surprise, surprise . . . I have after 38 years selling loudspeakers and studio monitors. It seems you have to buy a hardware interface (a Noah wireless for $200) to hook up to a computer and then you have to get your HA's ‘fitting’ software – which is free and available via an ask on the HA forum. And then as they say: “Bob’s your uncle.”

I have an app’t at Costco on Tuesday. And speaking of HAs at Costco it seems that they will be adding a new HA later this month in 107 selected stores in the US. A Sennheiser one for $1600 – which appears to be a rebadge of Phonak’s #2 HA . . . so last years’s hot tech – but not the most current Phonak tech . . .

Gawd the HA forum is geeky . . .

 

[Ca++]

I wonder what HA software looks like. Some of the room eq stuff is very user friendly. Some of the lesser used chip series, can be a bit more work. The problem with the HA though, is that only the end user really knows what is right. Sitting the HA test could be revealing. I'm guessing things like hearing threshold are easy to establish. I could do that now. Then with that baseline, a flat sweep could be used, to assess gain at different frequencies. It's group and impulse tuning that starts to become a full time job though. I guess you really must see the HA appointment as a basic plot, you will tune further, almost indefinitely.

Like with room eq, you really want a couple of presets. One to tune out HF, and increase LF for instance. So you can hear your mates, not your missis

 

[tobedetermined]

I wonder what HA software looks like

Here is a pdf Step by Step Guide to the Phonak Target software . . .

 

[Ca++]

Here is a pdf Step by Step Guide to the Phonak Target software . . .

Interesting. Though it looks like an owners manual, that can run diagnostic, and allow a little polishing. Not start from scratch with an audiogram build. I guess you would get there in the end though. It seems to even have a basic audiogram inbuilt, for dealing with children's typical needs. However, it seems to expect an import of that mapping, and be more concerned with fitting and setup.

During ownership this would be a useful tool. Running through tests, that could highlight changes you need to make. A bit like doing your own eye prescription, when you know which way things are heading. Occasionally you need to see the proper guys, as you just don't own the equipment.


This looks like a good job to have actually. A backstreet retune shop, perhaps.