SURVIVAL: Someone trying to win a “Darwin Award”!

Thursday, May 22, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/tiffany-slaton-survives-getting-lost-in-sierra-nevada-for-3-weeks-thanks-to-unlocked-cabin/

Lost hiker missing for 3 weeks in Calif. mountains survives — thanks to cabin left unlocked for this exact reason
By David Propper 
Published May 16, 2025, 12:47 a.m. ET

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A lost hiker missing for three weeks in the California mountains miraculously survived when she stumbled upon an unlocked cabin that had been left open by its owner for this exact situation — and was rescued just in time to celebrate her 28th birthday.

Georgia woman Tiffany Slaton found shelter at a closed resort in the eastern Sierra Nevada range after she was initially reported missing on April 29, authorities said.

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He typically leaves the cabin doors open while the resort is closed during the off-season in case a wayward hiker needs a place to crash amid harsh weather conditions like blizzards.

“It’s mainly for people, just as this scenario played out, if they need to hole up in there one of shelter then it’s available,” Gutierrez said.

Slaton, who hails from Jeffersonville in the Peach State, told Gutierrez she survived for weeks solely munching on leeks before the resort owner fed her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

“It was a blizzard, and she pushed through that blizzard, and the first thing she saw was a cabin,” said Gutierrez. “And she held up in the cabin overnight … this girl was saved for the reason.”

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Needs more details.  

If you leave the cabin unlocked, then you should leave some food and communications gear.

Happy she survived, but the story is incomplete.

Who goes hiking without gear?

Answer: Someone trying to win a “Darwin Award”!

I hope there is some follow up.

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SOFTWARE: Found a strange software bug but don’t know who to blame

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

SOFTWARE: Found a strange software bug but don’t know who to blame

I downloaded my EKG from MYCHART into my MACOSX Sequoia 15.5 using FIREFOX 138.0.3 (aarch64).

No problem.

Went to attach it to an email.  Problem.  File’s not there?

Fist time in a long time I was befuddled.

Repeat the process.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

Same result.

Restart. Rinse and repeat.  Same result.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

Try SAFARI version 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8)

Rinse and repeat.  Same result.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe rent results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

Since I echo all my stuff into DROPBOX 224.4.4811 and the file is there as expected.

Attached it to my email and away it goes.

Now really confused.

Go back to FINDER version 15.5 and … …

<drum roll>

It’s there.

Argh!

I don’t know who to blame.

“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”  — Sir Winston Churchill, in a radio broadcast in October 1939

I guess I’ll never know!

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POLITICAL: Who was Biden’s physician and who was paying him?

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

FOUND VIA:

https://survivalblog.com/2025/05/14/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-212/

SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
James Wesley Rawles May 14, 2025

Tip of the hat to: JWR

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https://thelibertydaily.com/joe-biden-biggest-cover-up-american-history/

Joe Biden and the Biggest Cover-Up in American History. 

 By Jeff Crouere • May. 5, 2025 

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“Of course, the real problem was that Biden would have failed any type of honest cognitive test, which would have exposed his incompetence and his unsuitability for the world’s most demanding job, President of the United States.

Thus, his aides were attempting to cover up what was obvious for all Americans to see that Biden was not fit to be President. He belonged as a resident of a nursing home receiving treatment for his age-related illnesses, not living on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

While Biden’s mental decline was being hidden by his staff and his physician, Special Counsel Robert Hur was not so forgiving. In his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, Hur refused to indict him because he believed a jury would be sympathetic to a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’

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Who was Biden’s physician and who was paying him?

If it was the Taxpayer, then when will that person be indicted for fraud and their license to practice medicine revoked.

What about any attorney who had contact with Biden and made any statement about his competence?  Should be referred the appropriate Bar Associations.

When about any of his staff and any statements they made about his competence?  They should be publicly identified and rebuked.  Same for any of the media members!

Argh!

It’s a national disgrace.

Time for term limits, age limits, and citizenship requirements for politicians and bureaucrats!

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RANT: Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog

Monday, May 19, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/05/14/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-212/

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I noticed that SurvivalBlog site visits took a dive, starting on April 20th. Apparently, Google and other Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog when they search for preparedness information. To compensate for this recent drop in visits, I’d like to ask a favor of my regular readers: Please let your cousins, friends, co-workers, fellow church congregants, and shootin’ buddies know about SurvivalBlog. Please tell them that we now have more than 40,000 archived articles, columns, and quotes — all freely available. Thanks! – JWR

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It’s really sad when Google goes to the “dark side”.  Weren’t they the non-evil folks?  

All I want from a search engine is a prejudiced-free collection of links.  I don’t mind if they throw one or two ads at the top as long as they are identified as ads.

Argh!

This seems like bias to me.

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NEWJERSEY: Why don’t we have competition in energy?

Sunday, May 18, 2025

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/jbt17/major-announcement-as-nj-braces-for-large-increase-in-electric-rates?utm_source=alert-breakingnews

Major Announcement As NJ Braces For Large Increase In Electric Rates | Across New Jersey, NJ Patch

  • Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement comes less than a month before a statewide rate hike scheduled to begin on June 1.

Megan VerHelst, Patch StaffVerified Patch Staff Badge
Posted Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:36 am ET Updated Wed, May 14, 2025 at 12:36 pm ET

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NEW JERSEY — Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled a series of executive actions on Wednesday that he said will help New Jersey residents manage electric costs ahead of a rate hike scheduled to begin on June 1.

The announcement comes two weeks after the state Board of Public Utilities (BPU) said it would require New Jersey’s four electric utility companies — Atlantic City Electric, PSE&G, Jersey Central Power & Light and Rockland Energy — to come up with plans to mitigate overall bill impacts to residential customers during high usage summer months.

The state also asked the utility companies to defer rate increases until later in the year during lower-usage months, as well as identify other opportunities to stabilize rates and provide cost-saving opportunities wherever possible.

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20% increase thanks to the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee Gooferment.

Argh!

One can only hope that the politicians and bureaucrats responsible for this and their “green energy” policies get swept out of power.

Argh!

Why don’t we have competition in energy?

Clearly, the BPU ain’t looking out for the consumer.

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ENCOURAGING: A modern internet eqivalent of the Library at Alexandria

Saturday, May 17, 2025

https://standardebooks.org/blog/a-kind-of-bolshevism-in-an-uncanny-bookshop

Free ebooks in this post

  •     The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley
  •     Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  •     The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, by Bertrand Russell
  •     The Story of Utopias, by Lewis Mumford
  •     Disenchantment, by C. E. Montague

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Here’s a great resource for out of copyright books.  At a price everyone can afford  — free.  All the books I was supposed to read in high school and a few from grammar school.  This is like the Library at Alexandria before the fire.  A virtual treasure of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) for free.  Stunning.

And yes, I have put my money where my mouth is and contributed. So in that way I’m biased.

Besides how else would I reread the Hardy Boys of my earliest reads.  Now if Heinlein’s copyright would ever expire my internet blogging / email life would be over.

Laugh!

No such luck for you poor “usual suspects”.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is unscientific and killing birds for no good reason

Friday, May 16, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/canada-orders-mass-culling-of-400?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Canada Orders Mass Culling of 400 Research Ostriches Over Bird Flu, Refuses to Test Surviving Birds for Natural Immunity

  • Farmers face fines and jail time for seeking independent testing as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency fights to reinstate the culling order.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH  —  Mar 11, 2025

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered the culling of 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia, citing concerns over H5N1 bird flu. However, this decision is not based on sound science and could have serious consequences for both food security and medical research.

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Lack of Transparency and Scientific Process – Despite the importance of this research, the CFIA has refused to conduct further testing on the birds and has banned the farm from conducting its own tests, under threat of heavy fines and possible imprisonment. Why is the Canadian government refusing to study the potential antibodies ostriches have developed against H5N1 bird flu?

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One has to wonder where the Gooferment gets off on its “wild goose”  —  in this case ostrich — chases?  

I can imagine a conference room fill of bureaucrats sitting around trying to justify their paychecks.  Hard to imagine ANY value coming out of that room.  

In the mean time, the farmers on the ground are in a much better position to dictate the course of action.

Argh!

I hate politicians and bureaucrats.

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ECONOMICS: in libya, stable coins get a better exchange rate than the U$D?

Thursday, May 15, 2025

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922004098192494598.html?utm_source=tldrcrypto

@tikhbana

May 12 • 1 tweets • 1 min read •

Read on X

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had a call with a freelancer in tripoli, libya last week

he found us by asking perplexity:

“how do i send an invoice where my client pays by card and i receive crypto?”

we got on a call. he said he uses stablecoins because shops in libya will swap them for cash at a better rate than USD. but his client don’t want to pay in stables, but he wants to receive it. so he needed a way to bridge that.

then he said:

“getting paid in stablecoins is like your client handing you cash, instantly, across a border.”

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here’s an interesting factoid about the U$D and stable coins.  in libya, stable coins get a better exchange rate than the U$D?

Very interesting to me.  A use case for stable coins in international trade?

So if you’re going overseas or on an international cruise, then carrying some stable coins makes sense.

How will the various Gooferments enforce “money laundering” or “capital controls” when there’s nothing to show that value or wealth is crossing the boundary?

The use case for ₿ (bitcoin) of that Ukrainian crossing into Poland (I think that was the fact) with the clothes he had on and his memorized 24 words.  

Demonstrates the freedom of ₿ and crypto in general.

YMMV

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HEALTH: But I like hot dogs and sausage … …

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/05/13/ultraprocessed-foods-cardiovascular-deaths.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20250513&foDate=false&mid=DM1746242&rid=291736034 

Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to 4 in 10 Cardiovascular Deaths and Increased Mortality Risk
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola   
May 13, 2025

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Story at-a-glance

  • Nearly 38% of cardiovascular deaths in Canada are linked to ultraprocessed foods. These products contribute to 96,000 new heart disease cases and 17,400 deaths each year
  • Eating just one additional daily serving of ultraprocessed food raises your risk of obesity by 7%, abdominal fat by 5%, and Type 2 diabetes by 12%
  • Ultraprocessed foods increase cognitive decline risk by 16% and stroke risk by 8%, with the strongest effects seen in Black participants
  • Processed meat products like hot dogs and deli meats are linked to a 43% higher risk of death from neurodegenerative diseases and a 13% higher all-cause mortality risk
  • Even small amounts of ultraprocessed food trigger inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction that accelerate aging and drain your energy daily

Ultraprocessed foods dominate grocery store shelves today in the form of frozen dinners, packaged snacks, and fast-food items. While they offer convenience, they are engineered to hijack your appetite and flood your system with harmful compounds. These products, stripped of real nutrition and loaded with additives, trans fats, and artificial ingredients, are slowly clogging your arteries and setting you up for a heart attack or stroke.

According to a recent study, nearly 38% of all cardiovascular disease deaths in Canada are directly linked to ultraprocessed food consumption. 

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OK OK ok, I am a believer.  But I still like hot dogs.  Don’t eat them anywhere as near as used too but old habits are hard to break.

Luckily my significant other is pescatarian who likes to cook; so I get lots of “good for me food” that’s very tasty.

We’ll see if that helps me make it to 132 (to steal back all the social security dollars “they” stole from me  — ignoring the time value of money!).

Diet-wise I’ve been doing better and losing some weight and keeping it off.

My target is 175  — the weight I was in the military  —  so I have long way to go but I have all the time in world.  Laugh!  Or so I think.  (Remember the fellow who said “think of your age in decades?  So I’m only 7!)

YMMV but what’s the harm in trying to avoid soda and UPF (ultra processed foods)?

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ECONOMICS: Just End The Fed now for good

Monday, May 12, 2025

https://x.com/rickydoggin/status/1902482549609545959?s=51&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

G. Edward Griffin, author of the legendary “The Creature From Jekyll Island,” outlines seven compelling reasons why the Federal Reserve should be abolished. 

1) It is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

2) It is a cartel operating against the public interest.

3) It is the supreme instrument of usury.

4) It generates our most unfair tax.

5) It encourages war.

6) It destabilizes the economy.

7) It is an instrument of totalitarianism.

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As Ron Paul pointed out, the fiat money steal wealth from the poor, those on fixed income, and the young trying get ahead.

My particular gripe is with the “2% inflation target” that devalues our savings.  The Ponzi scheme of “Social Security Insurance” (what a joke)  — while transfer wealth from poor minority men to rich white women  —  take my dollars in “contributions” and returns inflation ravaged “dollars” decades later that are worth a few pennies in purchasing power.  Argh!

Wake up people!

When we were on a gold standard, prices deflated, savings were easy in gold coins, and life was predictable.  Now with fiat dollars (it’s a dollar because the Gooferment says it is), the Gooferment gets an endless spending spree, forever wars, and welfare to but votes.

Sigh!

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