Potato peels instead of the US

 We don't need their stinkin' fresh veggies.  I just got this from googs ai.

Potato peels contain many vitamins and minerals, including: 

• Vitamin C: 8 grams per potato skin, which is 9% of the daily value (DV) 
• Iron: 4 grams per potato skin, which is 23% of the DV 
• Potassium: 332 milligrams per potato skin, which is 7% of the DV 
• Calcium: 20 milligrams per potato skin, which is 2% of the DV 
• Magnesium: 25 milligrams per potato skin, which is 6% of the DV 
• Phosphorus: 59 milligrams per potato skin, which is 5% of the DV 
• Manganese: 0.4 milligrams per potato skin, which is 16% of the DV 
• Zinc: 0.3 milligrams per potato skin, which is 3% of the DV 
• Copper: 0.5 milligrams per potato skin, which is 53% of the DV 
• Riboflavin: A fair source 
• Ascorbic acid: A fair source 
• Folic acid: A fair source 
• Vitamins B6: A fair source 
• Phenolic compounds: A rich source 

Potato peels also contain: 

• About 40-50% dietary fiber 
• About the same amount of protein as the flesh of the potato 
• Around 30-40% of the potato's vitamin B, vitamin C, and potassium 

You can eat potato skins raw or cooked, and you can serve them as an appetizer or finger food. Before eating them, you should wash them to remove any dirt, pesticides, or debris. 

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All those people in Canada who got scurvy are peeling their potatoes.  Don't do it!  And keep the apple peels on for pie.  Close the borders!

**just saying this because when the ice age (cycle) hits, they'll be begging us for our igloos, or natgas, whatever.

ps. and you don't have to pay for faddish 'prebiotics' like I did.  Makes an old person smarter than a 5th grader.

ps. he's up to Mr. 100%!

ps a friend tells me that vitamins are the highest markup in the store.

Linux -- we have bugs instead of zero-days

 Today marks another russian zero-day for Windows.  You have to be an idiot to run that stuff, but everybody does.  Most people are happy with 'Security by Obscurity" which means that they haven't got to you yet.  When you want security for your house in the neighbourhood, you just have better locks than the neighbours, and a crappier car.  You don't have a big sign -- "Nothing is locked, I have insurance!"

My Linux is secure, because I can barely get it working at the best of times.  For example, I had a nice security camera system working with Frigate.  It is the most wonderful thing.  Until the new version had a big bug in it, that they won't fix for years.  The fix is to go back a version.

I didn't know that at the beginning, because who would admit to that?  No, I spent weeks trying to fix that it couldn't connect to the camera.  To look at the camera, you need ONVIF, but that library has had a bug forever.  Doesn't work.

Then I factory reset the camera, which is a bitch because all the installation is geared towards Windows.  Finally went through acres of manuals to find the right one for the camera API's.  I finally have an rtsp url that works.

Haven't got it all working yet, but I certainly learn a lot, which I will forget tomorrow.  That's why I write these things.

For clueless people, who don't want to wait for the ruskies to empty their bank accounts, I recommend chromebooks.  The banks have covered all these russian losses, but now are getting ridiculous.  My wife had a problem in the states, paying for the dang luggage fee by the sleazy airlines.  The bank of MO sent her a text to confirm the purchase, but she didn't bother with roaming (as if that works in the states).  Then they shut down her card, and when she phoned, they basically said, - go to heck, we don't want you as a trouble-making customer.  So, the wonders of a cashless society, with the russians breathing down our backs.

Ha, ha, your bank doesn't want to cover this any more.  

Cut inflammation and live to enjoy the ice cycle

 We are going to have a wonderful ice cycle.  Hopefully, this is a minor cycle and not a major one.  So, when you are out shovelling huge amounts of snow in the border months, you should be healthy.

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Chronic inflammation is what ages you fast, and kills you.  I have my own war against it.  Still have my natural hair colour, only when I look at myself in the mirror, the others don't see it.

Don't peel your potatoes.  Canada is closing it's borders with the US, so no fresh veggies for us.  I have a big micro-greens farm in the garage.  Stay away from sugar, although those darn Christmas cookies seem to pop up all over the place.

ps. yesterday we had a good meal from the 50's.  Went to the Chinese supermarket, got a pork bum at almost nothing, pressure cooked it for 2 hours.  Then I roasted the pulled pork a bit in bbq sauce, on my new carbon steel wok that was on sale at Costco.  Works perfectly on the induction stove.  Finished with Canadian frozen french fries in the air fryer.  We must prepare for our border war with trumpypants.  Close the border!  Bring back the anti-americanism of the 60's!  "American woman, stay away from me!

ps. and we need frozen french fries with the peel.  Many times more potassium than bananas. 

State of the Oceans - The Death of All Heat

 30 days hath November.  So, after I pigged out on Black Friday, it is time to do a summary of the oceans.  In Physics-Land, all our heat energy comes from the Pacific, but with the Great Socratic Debate of the leftwingers, heat energy grows on trees, just like money.

Our Pacific turbulence remains the same.  I call this "The Three Wise Men of the Pacific".  In Hallmark terms, this is called "Three wiser men and a ton of cold".

This is our year of heat energy so far.  I could narrate this, but note how our left-over hot spot got chased out, and the residual heat caused all my troubles with the long-term forecast.  I don't expect that December will add much to this.  "The ocean grinds slowly, but exceedingly cold".

For the December forecast, I expect our Great Steam Turbines of Hudson and Greenland to run out of gas, and then we can skate on the Thames.  

ps. leftism is still strong in BC, because they aren't at 40 below.  Look at this guy running a huge heat pump on windmill power.  

All that steel was made with solar power.

Residual heat in the water still holds back full winter

 

Those of us under the protection of water-heat gods can still wait before digging out the carrots.  Our peppers are finally gone.  

We are all clear and cold in NA.  

I like this 'Spear of Canada' going right at trumples.  Take that, Mr. 25%.  No warmth for you!

Greenland is at full white, but the Great Heat Engines, are still at work for Hudson Bay, and the Greenland Gap.

Warmies throw up their hands - can't explain anything

 

This doomer story is making the rounds.  They are all saying that 'carbon warming' can't explain it.  As if it could explain anything.

The neat thing is that this comes from a big geophysics school, but on the other side of the hall 'Climate School'.  I am ashamed of them, but the geophysics people are hiding under their desks - wimps.  

Anyway, they trot out the 'Extreme Jet Stream' thing.  Good for them.  

If you use a tiny bit of physics, you can explain everything, but just a speck of physics is like taking a speck of cyanide for breakfast.  It kills all the dreams.  

Bruce is poop out of luck for nuclear waste

 

The decision is made for the high-level waste.  Bruce was a sacrificial goat to the lefties.  I've looked at the cores, and Ignace does not seem to have the big shallow-dip fracture zones that I hypothesized would be ubiquitous in the north, due to glacial action.  I wonder why.

Anyway, good luck to everybody.  They can start sinking the shaft soon, and maybe put in a spiral ramp.

ps.  Yeah, Wesleyville for a nuclear plant!  The lefties are on the run.

No nuclear plant on Lake Erie, no water in our ice cycle.

Arctic in recharge, permanent cyclones suck the heat

 

This is interesting.  The Arctic is in recharge, and now there is a 'permanent' heat engine up in the Greenland Gap.  These things are very efficient in extracting heat.  They only end when the sea freezes.  

We have a big flow from the north, but it zooms around the Hudson steam turbine.  

Such a nice tongue of anomalous cold coming down to trumpland.  May they freeze in heck.  

 Greenland is white, but the Arctic flow is only taking the Canadian spillway.  That cyclone up by Greenland is blocking the flow, but we have no idea about the energies, since nobody does physics.  We can only wait and see.

ps.  look at those flurries.  The lakes protect us from the cold, but leave a lot of snow.  In January, they'll be solid ice, allowing us a nice 40 below.

ps. just did a dog walk into that wind -- OMG!

North America with full Arctic flow, Toronto saved by Hudson Bay

 

Bodies of water contain huge amounts of heat energy.  We have our Hudson Bay Steam Turbine constantly going until it freezes over.  As well, we have the Great Lakes.  So, the Arctic flow avoids all these.

It just goes to the rest of NA, and pulls up the price of natgas.  This year, we should see another Texas 20 below.  

Greenland isn't fully white today, but has a spot 'whiter than white'.  The UK Arctic flow is mucked up by cyclones, caused by tropical plumes.

The picture changes so fast, can't wait to see what's in store for tomorrow.

ps this evening you can see the snow flurries are building up.

Arctic at full blast, winds are confusing

 

This is a celebration of "Dreaming of a White Greenland".  First time this season that we have a full 60 below on the place.  Who's melting now?

The anomaly map shows that a lot of people are feeling the cold.  I don't have great mechanisms, though.

We have a very slow motion of the cold air.  A white Greenland usually produces high-flow Arctic blobs, but so far, nothing is steady, and everything changes overnight.

The cold is stopping a tropical plume, and everything is at an impasse.

Just a big mess of cyclones.  The cold air is coming in high.  I expect that by tomorrow, we'll see all the ducks lined up in a row.  Or not, since everything is rapidly changing.

ps. the Hudson Bay Steam Turbine is giving us nice snow flurries.

That means we have the cold coming in high, confusing the heck out of me.

Pacific equatorial belt unbelievably cold

 

That curve at the top is 2015, and it's what you need if you want to be warm, away from the equator.  Our current ocean temperature for the El Nino and La Nina zone, is way at the bottom.

You can see the full power of the cold feed coming in from the south.  For what it is worth, I've never seen anything like this.

We now have tremendous cold and wild turbulence.  It keeps getting colder.

For recorded history, we have had a nice pattern of warm and cold cycles here.  Always predictable at about a 7 year cycle for El Nino and La Nina.  That's all gone now, but the weather people keep hanging on.  Time for turmples to get rid of them.  If he does, he'll find out all about clange.

For Canada, we will bust his tariffs by cutting off natgas.

Our fine cold will bring natgas back to 10 bucks.

But, we'll hold out for $20.....

Linux - KDE mucks up again

 My #1 reason for always reinstalling is kde.  Now the update screwed up everything again, but I was able to hobble through with reinstalling.  

I followed this, just using a konsole.  It all worked again.

Arctic at full force

 

I use Greenland as my Arctic thermometer.  When it goes 'white' at 60 below, the Arctic is ready to blow out again.  That means full outbreaks or spills.  These take place as 'air glaciers' running at 30 below, with a lot of power.

You can see them as clear air blobs, with a curved front (lobate).  That is pure physics.

When they run at full power, they clear out all the tropical plumes.  When they meet the tips of the hot plumes, there is a storm.  Weather people only notice the storms.

UK -- Back in the Cold Saddle Again

 

Those spears of tropical plumes are dying, and we are back to "Freeze Britannia, Britannia rules the cold".

Canada is just getting a slow creep of cold, not much.  Greenland has a while to go before it goes white again.

And the ice just keeps coming.  My hypothesis for this winter is that the whole bay freezes up.  That puts Britain into a famous continuous cold channel, situation.

You can see how cold that water is now.  Some Brits are yelling at their leftie weather forecasters.  Now, now, it isn't their fault.

It's amazing that the cold channel continues even when the Arctic is recharging.  This means it is becoming 'permanent'.  All the countries dying from 'red pill' leftie-ism better have lots of natgas.

ps. on an unrelated note, the lefti-est organizations in the US should go to pasture.

Ps or, instead of my hypothesis, we can go with "Global Warming is making things colder" thing, which I have always loved.

The newest paper is all about how clange freezes us.

Germany takes the red pill, and promptly dies

 The red pill is leftiness, and Germany was once the king at it.

The lefty drugs are only for countries that got wealthy on hard-nosed engineering,  When the red pill kills that income, down you go.

Lefties are great, wonderful people, full of empathy.  They have one problem -- they can't do anything.  And by that, I mean create wealth.  They are a tax on the system - overhead.

This comes from the fact that every leftie quit math in high school.  No lefty proposal comes with a cost, or will ever use the Scientific Method.  Everything depends on money growing on trees.  "You can't put a cost to this!  or Worth it at any price!

Germany started the final death convulsions when it closed perfectly good nuclear power stations, that would be the pride of any country in the world.  They became totally dependent on Russian gas.  And those chickens have come home to roost.  Let's hope that my forecast of a Little Ice Age doesn't happen.

Now, the other extreme is the US.  As a Canadian, I can't stand the inequality, and the rise of the New Elite.  I think this will come to bite them, as everybody knows about Edwardian elite, and the rise of wars.  In other words, the elite descendants, are idiots.

So, my proposal is for everyone to think of cost-benefits, but on a longer term, of a decade or two.  We need welfare to bring back people to happily work.  If work is a hell-hole, we need to improve it.  You have to help alcohol and drug addiction by effective means, that pay back.  All government taxes must result in increased tax revenue through improved living standards.  

The US loves it's horrible slums.  In Palo Alto you can't find workers, because one side is millionaire row, and across the street, it's bullet-time.  Society makes money if you can melt the boundaries a bit, just for plumbers.   The US used to be all Dickvandyke middle class, and now it is just muskiness and jail.

We see Germany fall, and join France in the hopeless club.  The north guys still live on oil and gas.  Soon, it will be like the end of warmth.  Ask the UK.  Canada may be next, but we get immigrants to keep us going.  The US will seal its borders, and become isolationist, like in the dirty thirties.  

I'm only compelled to write this because all I ever see are long-term things driven by forces.  We can always live in the happiness of ignorance.

Politically, I can't see an improvement voting for the righties.  I believe that ordinary people have to step up to the plate.  Our media is stuck on repeating horrible comments that should be left in the ground.  I will have hope when we do more effective things.

Legalize all drugs, and grow them.  They only go for 'elephant pain killer' if nothing else is available.  The farming of cocaine and opium can pay for the drug treatments.  The only treatment that works is being in an institution where you can drink all you want, or inject all your want.  People eventually decide to get out of the farm, and back to life.

Now, if anybody reads this, they would go on bluiesky, and vent.  None of that works, it's only grist for the useless media mill.  Why can't trudie dance with his kids?  He is the 'fun dad' after all -- poor mother.

Vote for anybody who will be rational, not that pp guy who loves Indian influence.  

The weather is horrible -- taking a Sunday break

 I looked at the weather and said - Blah.  The cold blob coming down in Canada has no legs and is being diverted by warm air from the south.  The UK just has huge cyclones.  Nothing exciting.

The Arctic is in recharge mode.  No white light for Greenland.

Rat in the house

 I have a dog, and a double-slat dog door for our severe winters.  Everybody says "Aren't you worried something will come in?"  I say "Really, I have a dog."  Except that Roxie makes friends with all the little animals in the backyard.

This happened suddenly two days ago when I noticed that stuff was being pushed out from under the freezer, like a piece of broken glass.  Hmmm.  Then yesterday I was working down there, when there was a fuzzy streak of gray zooming along the back wall.  Ok.

I put out a big rat block (the bucket is almost empty, they are banned now), and it disappeared the next day.  No mouse could move it.  Then every rat trap I have was put out.

Today, I walk into the laundry room, and there is this huge mouse (I really didn't think it was a rat), lying still by the dog's water dish.  "Ha, you made a pig of yourself with the rat poison, and now you are dead.".  I called over everybody to look, but the dog didn't come.  She was mourning her friend, or feeling guilty.

Fine, I got a dog-poop bag, and grabbed it like picking up a poop.  I had jumped all around to see if it would move.  As I grabbed it, it let out a big squeak, and all I thought of was my finger being bit off.  I jumped back, and the baby rat (which I now identified because of the dragging big tail), walked as slow as molasses back under the freezer.  I just watched.

I now conclude it ate the rat block, and was sleeping it off.  Obviously, the dog and rat have an agreement.  Maybe the dog even brought it in, because it was cold.  Who knows?

Now, I'm waiting for it to go to the traps for a medically assisted death.  If not, I run the vacuum under the freezer, which is raised a bit for when we had floods.  I've put traps all over the outside.  It could have come from bringing in the Christmas ornaments from the outside shed.  But, it had poops the size of baked beans, and nothing was upstairs.  I'll stick with the dog conspiracy.

ps. we have now concluded that the rat-mouse came in the dryer vent, which is stainless steel slat, but the neighbours had a chipmunk come in that way.  I have ordered special screens.

Huge Arctic blob starting for Toronto

 

It is interesting that we have the only operating channel from the Arctic.  The Greenland Gap is sealed off by cyclones.

All that snow should melt under a nasty rain storm.

Bomb cyclones become a dime a dozen

 Bombs are everywhere!  Who cares about poot's nuclear missiles?  

Just call it 'Da Bomb' and you've got attention again.

Just as I said the Arctic spill over the UK looked permanent, it is shoved over by a strong tropical plume.  This is where it would be useful to have an energy rating, like an M9 plume.

But we know, that would require physics, and we don't do that.  You can see here that's a mighty fine tropical plume spear, and it stabbing the UK.  

The all-important tip of the phallic horror, is a 'whirlwind' of activity, and has been called Bert.  I suspect that this storm will draw in some snow at the end.

By tomorrow, it will be all different again.

Leaving Amazon and dollar stores behind to go to Temu

 Amazon destroyed the shopping centre, and now Temu destroys them.  Such fun.

Walmart destroyed the small town downtown.  

I suspect that AI is next, ordering before I know I'm out...

Google Gemini AI saves you with clip art

 In the good old days, I used to get free clip art for various little kid projects.  Now, you can't, because if you search on Google, you get endless frauds, of saying it's free, and then wanting to charge you.  It's hopeless.

Until I tried the AI, and it's the first useful thing I got out of it.

Don't cry for those crummy sites, Argentina.  The stock photo sites are bankrupt, and now it's clip art.  Can't wait for it to do vector images for my stencils, etc.

Braaaains in Spaaaace!

 

I had this hypothesis show up in my dreams.  

Hypothesis - For upright heads, the brain 'garbage collection' is the lymphatic system, and it relies on gravity.

This is physics and biology.  Naturally, we'll never see the physics experiments and the Scientific Method, because the medical people are philosophers.  We saw that during Covid.  But, this is a good hypothesis, supported by lots of articles.

When brains were developing in ancient evolution times, there was no need for extra drainage, standard blood circulation was enough.  Mammals decided they needed more brains to avoid being stomped on by dinosaurs, who had brains the size of peas.  Then things got complicated.

The brains has a blood-brain boundary, and heavy thinking produces garbage.  What to do, what to do?

Let's overlay another drainage system.  We have gravity, the brain is high, so we don't need much else.

Just throw in a tube that drains into the kidneys and liver, etc.  Let's have fun with evolution and make it fancier.  Creatures with better drainage are more successful.

Let's go to 'no gravity'... what happens?  I am beginning to think we need to start making the big gravity spinning wheels in space.  Trumples can pick that as his next project.