Santa Barbara County authorities recovered the body of a man who was reportedly swept off a flooded roadway in Goleta Valley on Saturday.
The man was driving near the 1100 block of North San Marcos Road shortly before noon when his vehicle reportedly became stuck on a flooded part of the road that passes over Maria Ygnacio Creek, according to Captain Mike Gray with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The man then exited his vehicle, Gray said, and he was subsequently washed…
"Now is not the time for self-indulgent rehearsals of criticisms of the Venezuelan government’s alleged failings, as if attempting to steer a socialist course while facing relentless economic warfare from the most powerful country on Earth were ever likely to be straightforward."
Trump’s US is out of control – stand with Venezuela and its revolution | Morning Star
Strands #642
“Feeling peckish?”
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Have made these kinds of commands with Puppet Resource layer - but just “require ‘puppet’” can take a second let alone all the other startup costs.
Seeing the same pattern but very fast is a whole different experience. Long way to go but feeling pretty good.
(First slow run is of course yum update)
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Cowboys crash back to reality, thumped on road again as Lions win, 44-30 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/04/cowboys-revert-to-roadkill-lose-to-lions-44-30/87616828007/
Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/taiwan-charg…
Blacker than black? Of course!
After very dark surface covering, there is now a new dark fabric available, that is the darkest documented black fabric.
The fabric based on black bird plumage absorbs 799/800 of the light falling into it, making it deep dark. Fascinating!
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UN sees world's emissions falling 10% by 2035, far short of 60% goal #environment
did a winter warmer soup that turned out very nice
fried up onion, sweet pepper, chilli pepper, lots of garlic in butter with some spicy chorizo
drowned it in some homemade chicken stock, a tin of chopped tomatoes, four tins of lentils with their tinjuice
good and filling with crusty toast
Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…