Ogre

My apologies. Tequila and multitask do not mix. Still. .03% The original point remains, and I will tell myself to stop being an idiot.

Firstly, you’re welcome. Secondly, let’s evaluate this a bit. The cost of the project increased by .0003%. For perspective, that’s like building a $300,000 house and finding out that the price increased by that .0003%, or $90. What happened with most posters though? Most of them jumped to outrage and conspiracy culminating in the Union’s corruption and greed being the culprit. Sure. Let’s vilify the hard working men and women that devote years into training in their craft and go out there and make sh!t happen every damn day, rain or shine. Let’s blame politicians. Let’s blame every thing and everyone without shutting the hell up and thinking for a minute. That is the very definition of idiotic, is it not? And if anyone got their britches twisted sideways by the comment, fret not. The state of being idiotic is temporary in most people. You just didn’t shut up long enough to think. Happens to me from time to time and I tell myself, “shut up, idiot.” It’s a temporary condition for MOST people. Some are just too far gone down their ideological hole to listen to what they are actually saying. There is a stronger term than idiot for those people but I will not use it here. I strive to choose my words carefully. Idiot was the proper term, my friend.

This is a pathetic view from multiple angles. First, the use of graft, corruption and Unions in succession. Links? Proof of any kind? Second, I assume you’re taking a dig at PLAs. Just so everyone reading that may not be aware of PLAs, I will educate. A Project Labor Agreement is a contract between the customer and labor. It must show a cost saving to be agreed to and those savings come by the way of Unions making concessions to their Collective Bargaining Agreements. Anyone can bid the work, both Union and open shop contractors. A PLA is intended to keep the costs down and the workers local. Period. Third, that $300 million overrun, you idiots, is due to the rising cost of materials and labor (because there’s a shortage of it everywhere!) since the original estimates. There’s going to be a billion $ chip plant being built a few hours drive from this project. The WNY business and building sectors are on fire! I live in this world, I know contractors (on both sides) that are buying out supplies in anticipation of work to come. The fact that a billion $ project has only increased by such a small percentage in the face of the boone that we are having is a GD testimonial to the effectiveness of a PLA at controlling costs. You are also wrong to use your position here to slide in some garbage that you would be all over someone else for doing.

Little Ogre, look at the sky! Za planets on fire! It is just as you prophesied! Za planets of our solar system incinerating! Like flaming globes, Ogre! Like flaming globes! AH HA HA HA!

Click clack!

Man, that’s a lot to digest. I agree that some of the theoretical suggestions are enticing to read about and take me down some crazy rabbits holes. The quantum entanglement theory has taken me through the warren numerous times. I agree that the current experiments are exciting but they can really only entangle information between two different photon that are spaced at a distance. The record is something like 150 miles and that’s with the use of fiber optic cables. I’d love for it to mean something greater but it’s a pretty long stretch to teleportation. Unfortunately, those light years are real distances that it takes real time to transverse. I know where you’re going with the fourth dimensional idea that we could close that almost instantaneously, I could be both here and there at the same time, but we are stuck in 3D. Just like that atom being pared down to its smaller elements doesn’t bring you any closer to the second dimension in our third dimension, any theoretical being in the fourth dimension would never be able to pare down their structures enough to each 3D. Interestingly, the higher the dimension the smaller the scale, in theory at least. Another thought experiment. We all know one dimension is a dot. I can’t move anywhere. In 2D we walk in line. Space got bigger. In 3D in can go in even more directions. In 4D what happens? You create a shortcut. Just like a Klien Bottle, everything turns in on itself so instead of needing a door to get into the next room, I just go through the wall. And so on with even higher dimensions. If those higher dimensions even exist. They very well may not. How could we ever know?

George Cantstandya’s appearance fills me with glee. I don’t know how this thing would end but at some point Ogre eats a ton of alien babies. Just for fun.

This is excellent.

I am a bitch to the unknown. I want more. We are missing knowledge, that’s a given. Science doesn’t pretend to know things, science works to understand but mathematics are pretty specific. I’m not trying to be a party pooper because I’ve seen things that I can’t explain. I just can’t understand them, not enough as evidence. Vidoes? Pictures? AI? Existing all at the same time? Could I interest you in a great time share opportunity? It is similar, to me, to be asked to believe any of the multiple and random religions that exist. Lot’s of ask to believe with little evidence and a guy like me that’s been crawling on his belly for 30 years… I’ve been waiting for these Mother *****. Come. And. Get. Me. OUT!

I have a tough time accepting the suggestion that it is possible for the other life that I do believe has existed, exists and will exist out there, to be here now because that would involve time travel to transverse the immense distances involved. I do not believe time travel is possible. Just imagine that what we are seeing with our own technology now existed very long ago. Say we do see signatures of life on one of these long ago worlds, we would have to travel back in time to see it. As for the quoted, if you are talking about spacial dimensions, that is impossible. A simple thought experiment can prove this. Try to imagine something truly two dimensional in our three dimensional world. The smallest you can get is an atom and that is even three dimensional, just really small. We can get smaller and smaller and never get to the second dimension.

It’s very possible that the people that are pisssing off @inkman by lagging in line have done that very thing!! That’s why they call it dope.

Sooooooo….I’m going shopping at Wegmans in Chili around, how about 11 am?

I’m starting to wonder if I have encountered the problem that you’re irked by and just didn’t realize that they were in line and just went around them. Hmmm. That’s an easy fix, pretend that you had no idea they were in line and go around them.

I’m having the opposite problem. Every mother ***** that gets into line behind me needs to be so close that they’re breathing down my neck. Or the fabric from their clothes is actually touching me. I turn and look at them, mostly to assess whether they’re special or not, because I really have to tell them that their breath stinks and that they need to stop touching me. Thanks a million!

Beach week with my wife’s family ends tonight with a long ride home tomorrow. That’s not the complaint though. I’ve been here all week with my MIL. She was ok the first half of the week but has since fallen back into her habit with liquor and has devolved into the person that no one likes. Allow me to provide a sampling: Yesterday afternoon I’m chatting with my BIL about these steamer pots that the wife and I are having delivered for dinner. You pick the seafood, they make up the pots, you steam them. We’re talking about the lobster that his wife wanted in the pots and were basically noting that the lobster we are getting off LBI in NJ is probably the same lobster that Danny Wegman is selling back home. She chimes in from across the room “You don’t know that! There could be a species of lobster right out here that no one knew about that they’re catching for that pot!! Now, I don’t know that for a fact but you don’t know that isn’t true!” Huh!? Say what now?! Thanks for butting into the conversation that I was having with someone else to tell me that I could theoretically be wrong. Put the science aside, dear. While you’re at it, but the damn vodka aside with it! So glad to be going home tomorrow. One more day of hiding from that beast!