I was an IA stagehand in the early 2000's.. NGL, the stage breakdown after a GWAR show was one of the stickiest, slipperiest, goopiest "outs" I've ever done. Not even the Lippizaner Stallions (and those horses are fed some weird food that makes their poop toxic, which is wild, since horse poop is the least offensive of any large animal) were as messy.

GWAR puts on a highly theatrical, great show.. If you get a chanct to see them.. By all means.. take it.

Not surprised President Peevishness can't handle the heat. So typical for the thin-skinned one.

Oh yeah.. After Dark..

I still have the CD for the Deluxe 4.0 version and managed over the years to grab all the Star Trek and the Simpsons screensavers as well. I will occasionally boot up MacOS 8.6 and faff around with them.

Rock, Paper, Scissors was one I always thought would be great to put on a TV in a bar, and let it run and let people make bets on it.

My hat is so off to anyone that can paint flowers. I try and they end up looking like colored blobs.

Those are nicely done!

Gay and LGBTQ supporters also don't have to watch sports or buy products advertised during games, either.

Typical that someone that doesn't have to work for their income would say such a thing.

I love that the New Testament has an order of primacy to the books, and what's the First Book of it?

Hmmmm. The one that is most on-point with Christ's message, and the one that likely will be least touched on.

Personally, I think the kids should hold their schools and teachers to those 10 Commandments that they have on the walls in their classrooms.

Particularly the 9th Commandmant.

That one, pointedly demanded by the students, could set a lot of hair on fire.

Could you see the hullabaloo if a Texas High School 11th grade US History class demanded the actual historical TRUE Texas Letter of Secession was taught in class? It's a right nasty, racist document that's been whitewashed of the real language it was written with. Nothing to do with "States Rights" at all..

If you haven't seen her, I recommend watching to the videos made by a woman named Monte Mader. She's a Goddess that knows Scripture forwards and backwards and will not hesitate to call out hypocrisy and bullshit wherever she sees it.

LOL! That is some damn fine pretzel logic there!

Or the next President signs an EO insisting the IRS investigate financial and possibly illegal "irregularities" in the taxes of former Administration officials.

Well, "Greenwater Services" is living up to their name! Oh fuck... they ain't cooming back from this..

LOL!

Yaah.

When any kind of epoxy "water barrier" refuses to stick to stone or concrete (not certain what the reflecting pool is made of) the main culprit is that the substrate is not thoroughly dry - and if it was concrete it would need to take at least a week to fully dry - and then the epoxy resin itself needs at least 4 days to cure properly.

My bet is that it wasn't a real epoxy resin so much as a "water resistant" heavy resin body block filler (which is made for basement and brick walls) that was slapped on in a hit-and-run, sketchy as fuck, con job on the taxpayers.

The texture sure looks like it and that stuff absolutely can be tinted to any shade.

Sause: 46 years as an industrial painter.

100k wouldn't buy the resin needed.

That pool is what.. 2030 ft. x 175 ft. with a side-wall depth of 1.5 feet..

Hmm. Let's math this.. 2030 X 175 = 355,350 is the square footage of the bottom (more or less - as the bottom actually drops to 30 inches in the middle - it's tapered down at the center so I'd add 2% on that as the bottom is not flat across.. so that would be an extra 6700 sq. ft. or so) and the sides.. 2030 x 2 x 1.5 = 6090 sq. ft.. and 175 x 2 x 1.5 = 525 sq. ft.

Tally all the totals: 355,350 + 6700 + 6090 + 525 = 368,665 sq. ft. per coat and to do it right, you'd need at least 2 coats, which doubles that tally to 737,330 sq. ft.

Depending on the actual epoxy resin coating used, you're looking at 80 to 150 sq. ft. coverage per gallon. Average price per gallon at this time is, around 150 bucks per (for the budget shit, the spendy stuff goes upwards of 300 bucks a gallon)..

So average that coverage to 115 sq. ft per gallon (the primer coat uses more, the topcoat less) and divide 737,330 by it, which = 6,411.56 gallons.. and multiply by the 150 bucks per.. comes out to $961,734 just for the resin.

Never mind the application tools and the cleanup and disposal costs for the rags, empties and tyvek suits - OR - the labor.

That's a big fucking job but not 14 million dollars big, when the work fails to last inside of a week. Homeboy used something super cheap and I'll bet has already skipped town..

Nice! Plein air is something I've never done but always wanted to. I see your own adventure with it was highly successful.. Well done!

Part time ghoul?

Naah.. Lavrov's a full time employee now.

Tie this with the fact that the Russian defense forces have their press gangs out in full force now, apparently sweeping up any Russian with a dick that's got short curlies around it, and the picture is one of an increasingly desperate situation.

Fuck these old, impotent males and their fragile egos. Fuck ALL of them, not just the Russian ones, no.. every last one, straight to hell.

That did cross my mind as well. Could be a possibility. Dunno.

Well, it's nice to see that the American taxpayers got their money's worth for the workmanship and materials of the project.

Well coded and correctly operating AI strikes again!

Yet another win for the stakeholders!

If ever there was an AI fever dream about power equipment..

Someone is 100% going to try and use videogames to train AI to fight in real life.

There's now way they won't.

Been thinking along those lines myself. I'm of the mind not to give war-bots any ideas, NGL.. it's one of those things that gives me pause for war gaming.

I'll just stick to my sandbox, thankyouverymuch.

Lemmy it is!

320k VBR, highest quality can actualy go higher bitrate when called for.. so no.

Been using those settings for decades.