Yes Substack has an image generator. When you click on add photos down at the bottom of that drop box is generate AI image. The picture will include whatever prompts you used and is pretty basic, but it can save time in a lot of instances. For me I like testing it sometimes more as a way to see what assumptions have been embedded into the system...
Scorpions are tequila creatures too. 1975 three stoned yankee hippies on a drunken road trip to Guadalajara, scoop up a scorpion in a small mason jar and fill it up with white rot-gut. A couple day later we’re trying to impress some senoritas so my buddy uncaps the jar and takes a mouthful of tequila with the alacrane’ in it, gargles it swallows the juice and spits the bug back in the bottle. Then the thing starts to wriggle around in the jar. Scorp must of been drunker than we were because it didn’t bother to sting him. Useful information in case you’re ever tempted to gargle a scorpion.
LOL that's gotta be the best scorpion story I've ever read! Tough bastards, those guys. I'd say he should have earned his drunk freedom after that ordeal...
you're currently experiencing a huge part of the problem with building using natural materials like bamboo.
permitting. code. typically requires purchased materials.
I just learned something disgusting looking up some recent municipal corporation council malfeasance. used to require compliance with American NIST standards. those are quite restrictive and corrupt enough, thank you, but in 2018 the evil council switched to globalist building code. international overreach. super intrusive. moving up to the 2024 version. "The adopted package includes:
requires creating an account to view details of the overreach, and download/print/save is prohibited with a large price tag option for the rich who benefit from all this.
the globalist building code is bad. and residential/maintenance codes really make me think about Granby CO...
Thank you for that. The land office was closed today but we will be back tomorrow morning and I will share what I find out as it regards Thailand building codes.
This is converging at the same time as people are priced out of homes and even increasingly housing. There’s a nefarious agenda at play, no doubt about it
The gubmint imposes building codes out on your land? I’m not under an HOA, and the county, electric coop, and water company never looked at the cabin I built. Maybe I’m just lucky. I followed the IBC (pretty much) in case I want to sell the place. A buyer might care.
But yes to bamboo construction if possible. I’d have done that myself, but Texans consider bamboo invasive and grow little if any in these parts. I did find that 450 square feet or so is a perfectly functional little home. Another 150 adds a designated bedroom bigger than a couple needs, assuming they’re not addicted to 1st world trappings.
I like where you went with AI-generated content and “narrow assumptions.” Since large language models regurgitate the most common or dominant assumptions, it follows that starting with AI-generated content and imagining nuance like you did would result in considerable creativity. Cool exercise.
Bamboo grows here there is even an excess of it on a neighbor's land, but that plot is claimed to be unoccupied so there's nobody to ask permission regarding harvesting it. I am curious though why I do not see any structures made of bamboo here and if that is an actual regulation of some sort preventing using it.
Regarding building permitting that is the first step for registering the land with an address and then a tabian baan (house registration) for my husband's Thai ID card. That is important for me if I wanted to make a marriage visa to stay in Thailand with my husband. Could Ka as a Thai national simply build whatever or set up a tent out there and be left alone about it? Maybe. But that tabian baan is important for a lot of government services like buying and registering vehicles and whatnot...
I got squirrely a couple times during Covid. I tried to keep that in mind as the situation in Iran set off my spidey senses. Here’s the deal:
If a deal was reached with Iran it would take minimum of 3-4 months to get the ships moving. Since 2/28 we have been using Western SPRs to keep prices in check (somewhat lol). Most SPRs begin to run out this month. US will in July.
I have no qualms in saying trouble is coming. I cannot predict how bad it will get but based on our current debt and other issues I will tell you it could be severe. One must also consider most of our economic downturns have been centered around money. This one will be due to a lack of energy. And you can’t print oil. Of course we had an issue with this in the 70s but we also weren’t already leveraged to the hilt.
Just remember, it was the Zionists who have done this. 😡
I agree that trouble is coming and the longer this Iran War goes on the more I think that this is the intentionally manufactured crisis that they will try to use to push humanity into digital ID and UBI. This crisis will be most acute in those places with the greatest dependencies on oil ie where food is shipped to not grown at and where electrical and Internet connectivity is necessary for living day to day life. It's been in the plans for a long time.
But how bad will it get? And will we build up before the breakdown enough to break free?
No doubt about the Data Centers being used for the surveillance state. But they aren’t anywhere close to getting where they want to be and they have probably 2 months max before things get dicey; 3 months MAX.
Here’s a good and quick hypothetical. Once this starts things could unravel fast. Diesel runs everything we need (trains, semis, ships). The U.S. oil is great for making gasoline. The ME is the best all around making mostly jet fuel and diesel.
I agree, and I go with two months, that's why the insane rush. The plus side is they are incompetent, the down side is they are ruthless.
That's combined with the plan, if they get away with it, to merge the IDF into the DoD. Why? Because US soldiers when told to shoot fellow citizens enmasse will resist. Israelis won't.
Growing up I always thought of scorpions as desert creatures with admonitions to shake out your boots/shoes in the morning in the Southwestern US. Despite this I can hardly think of if I ever encountered them.
I noticed in Thailand that that the common black scorpion variety that this is are found in wet places eg under a rotting log. That doesn't mean I thought it could be submerged in water overnight.
re the pic of a man and wife looking at each other, they are not, actually. He is looking behind her head and she is looking beyond and in front of him. Fake images really are garbage. However, that image is much like many relationships I have been in.
I’m a boomer from the days of punch cards and magnetic tape computing and storage. I can spot an AI generated image or voice almost immediately and I don’t think it takes being a proverbial rocket scientist to do so. Some of these AI productions are utterly ridiculous making me wonder if the humans behind them even bother to edit their products before airing them.
Thanks for the reminder on the Blue Moon. I'd forgotten. It looks beautiful.
Your land looks great and looks like you should be able to grow a lot of stuff.
I'm with you. I can't figure out why Google is involved in releasing sterilized male mosquitos. To stop disease? Why aren't they involved in the many nations around the world where simple clean water from a well would radically change the life style and health conditions for those people? The procedure is well established and the cost, for a conglomerate like Google, is minimal. Thousands of communities need water a well could provide.
The main aspect of "Superwomen" images I dislike is that they're always busty with a shirt drawn tightly across their chests. Reminds me of being 13 years old again when we tried to get our shirts and blouses as tight as possible since we had one thing on our minds: boys.
Enjoyed the memes. Good luck with your YT channel.
I had no idea Substack has an image generator! Will have to find out about that! Good luck on permits, etc.
Yes Substack has an image generator. When you click on add photos down at the bottom of that drop box is generate AI image. The picture will include whatever prompts you used and is pretty basic, but it can save time in a lot of instances. For me I like testing it sometimes more as a way to see what assumptions have been embedded into the system...
Thank you, I might try that for making memes. 💕
Hi Amy, long time no bug you! The old man seems to be sitting by his old wife while staring, amused, at the window...
Nice scorpion you have there! All the best to you all.
To you as well! Thanks for popping in!
Scorpions are tequila creatures too. 1975 three stoned yankee hippies on a drunken road trip to Guadalajara, scoop up a scorpion in a small mason jar and fill it up with white rot-gut. A couple day later we’re trying to impress some senoritas so my buddy uncaps the jar and takes a mouthful of tequila with the alacrane’ in it, gargles it swallows the juice and spits the bug back in the bottle. Then the thing starts to wriggle around in the jar. Scorp must of been drunker than we were because it didn’t bother to sting him. Useful information in case you’re ever tempted to gargle a scorpion.
LOL that's gotta be the best scorpion story I've ever read! Tough bastards, those guys. I'd say he should have earned his drunk freedom after that ordeal...
you're currently experiencing a huge part of the problem with building using natural materials like bamboo.
permitting. code. typically requires purchased materials.
I just learned something disgusting looking up some recent municipal corporation council malfeasance. used to require compliance with American NIST standards. those are quite restrictive and corrupt enough, thank you, but in 2018 the evil council switched to globalist building code. international overreach. super intrusive. moving up to the 2024 version. "The adopted package includes:
International Building Code (IBC)
International Residential Code (IRC)
International Fire Code (IFC)
International Plumbing Code (IPC)
International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
International Mechanical Code (IMC)
International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC)
International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC)
International Existing Building Code (IEBC)
NFPA 70 2023 National Electric Code (NEC)"
https://www.iccsafe.org/products-and-services/i-codes/ibc/
requires creating an account to view details of the overreach, and download/print/save is prohibited with a large price tag option for the rich who benefit from all this.
the globalist building code is bad. and residential/maintenance codes really make me think about Granby CO...
Thank you for that. The land office was closed today but we will be back tomorrow morning and I will share what I find out as it regards Thailand building codes.
This is converging at the same time as people are priced out of homes and even increasingly housing. There’s a nefarious agenda at play, no doubt about it
The gubmint imposes building codes out on your land? I’m not under an HOA, and the county, electric coop, and water company never looked at the cabin I built. Maybe I’m just lucky. I followed the IBC (pretty much) in case I want to sell the place. A buyer might care.
But yes to bamboo construction if possible. I’d have done that myself, but Texans consider bamboo invasive and grow little if any in these parts. I did find that 450 square feet or so is a perfectly functional little home. Another 150 adds a designated bedroom bigger than a couple needs, assuming they’re not addicted to 1st world trappings.
I like where you went with AI-generated content and “narrow assumptions.” Since large language models regurgitate the most common or dominant assumptions, it follows that starting with AI-generated content and imagining nuance like you did would result in considerable creativity. Cool exercise.
Bamboo grows here there is even an excess of it on a neighbor's land, but that plot is claimed to be unoccupied so there's nobody to ask permission regarding harvesting it. I am curious though why I do not see any structures made of bamboo here and if that is an actual regulation of some sort preventing using it.
Regarding building permitting that is the first step for registering the land with an address and then a tabian baan (house registration) for my husband's Thai ID card. That is important for me if I wanted to make a marriage visa to stay in Thailand with my husband. Could Ka as a Thai national simply build whatever or set up a tent out there and be left alone about it? Maybe. But that tabian baan is important for a lot of government services like buying and registering vehicles and whatnot...
I got squirrely a couple times during Covid. I tried to keep that in mind as the situation in Iran set off my spidey senses. Here’s the deal:
If a deal was reached with Iran it would take minimum of 3-4 months to get the ships moving. Since 2/28 we have been using Western SPRs to keep prices in check (somewhat lol). Most SPRs begin to run out this month. US will in July.
I have no qualms in saying trouble is coming. I cannot predict how bad it will get but based on our current debt and other issues I will tell you it could be severe. One must also consider most of our economic downturns have been centered around money. This one will be due to a lack of energy. And you can’t print oil. Of course we had an issue with this in the 70s but we also weren’t already leveraged to the hilt.
Just remember, it was the Zionists who have done this. 😡
I agree that trouble is coming and the longer this Iran War goes on the more I think that this is the intentionally manufactured crisis that they will try to use to push humanity into digital ID and UBI. This crisis will be most acute in those places with the greatest dependencies on oil ie where food is shipped to not grown at and where electrical and Internet connectivity is necessary for living day to day life. It's been in the plans for a long time.
But how bad will it get? And will we build up before the breakdown enough to break free?
I think its planned, hence the mad dash to build data centers to monitor mandatory lockdowns aka concentration camps.
No doubt about the Data Centers being used for the surveillance state. But they aren’t anywhere close to getting where they want to be and they have probably 2 months max before things get dicey; 3 months MAX.
Here’s a good and quick hypothetical. Once this starts things could unravel fast. Diesel runs everything we need (trains, semis, ships). The U.S. oil is great for making gasoline. The ME is the best all around making mostly jet fuel and diesel.
https://x.com/dariocpx/status/2061090971191029817?s=42
I agree, and I go with two months, that's why the insane rush. The plus side is they are incompetent, the down side is they are ruthless.
That's combined with the plan, if they get away with it, to merge the IDF into the DoD. Why? Because US soldiers when told to shoot fellow citizens enmasse will resist. Israelis won't.
Thanks for the link!
Buckle up.
So many great memes, thanks Amy!
On the scorpion thing, desert scorpions will drown in very little water, at least the type that I find in the Oregon mountains.
Growing up I always thought of scorpions as desert creatures with admonitions to shake out your boots/shoes in the morning in the Southwestern US. Despite this I can hardly think of if I ever encountered them.
I noticed in Thailand that that the common black scorpion variety that this is are found in wet places eg under a rotting log. That doesn't mean I thought it could be submerged in water overnight.
re the pic of a man and wife looking at each other, they are not, actually. He is looking behind her head and she is looking beyond and in front of him. Fake images really are garbage. However, that image is much like many relationships I have been in.
Right on,Amy! You do rock!
I’m a boomer from the days of punch cards and magnetic tape computing and storage. I can spot an AI generated image or voice almost immediately and I don’t think it takes being a proverbial rocket scientist to do so. Some of these AI productions are utterly ridiculous making me wonder if the humans behind them even bother to edit their products before airing them.
Thanks for the reminder on the Blue Moon. I'd forgotten. It looks beautiful.
Your land looks great and looks like you should be able to grow a lot of stuff.
I'm with you. I can't figure out why Google is involved in releasing sterilized male mosquitos. To stop disease? Why aren't they involved in the many nations around the world where simple clean water from a well would radically change the life style and health conditions for those people? The procedure is well established and the cost, for a conglomerate like Google, is minimal. Thousands of communities need water a well could provide.
The main aspect of "Superwomen" images I dislike is that they're always busty with a shirt drawn tightly across their chests. Reminds me of being 13 years old again when we tried to get our shirts and blouses as tight as possible since we had one thing on our minds: boys.
Enjoyed the memes. Good luck with your YT channel.
Is that true? Amelia wasn't alone?
I grew up, decades ago, in deep rural Florida. Your place reminds me! The rice crop looks good. Enjoyed the video!