Bias and innuendo

 A guy thinks better on the toilet. Not that I'm making a statement or anything, I'm only excusing how raw and unfinished this'll look, describing a train-of-thought that passed out and is long gone.

OK I'll try:

Nexstar is unrelated. No, really. It's from yesterday, a quote I looked up
About their founder and maybe CEO saying that their news was centrist, because so much of news is left-leaning (so they'd be right of the mostly left-leaning media.)
(I didn't make it up, I swear, but do I really need the exact quote?)

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/newsnation-jennifer-lyon-nexstar-bias-1234926851/

Your conservative (reactionary?) uncle, foundations, societies and lobbyist groups have been around since I was a teeny kid, 

It's only recently they've become ascendant. Proper. 
Well hell, that's as much as I remember (*flush*)

(I had a whole bombast slotted up about a fact (any fact) and the many interpretations of that fact, but it (the bombast) can be bottom-lined:

Who are you gonna believe?

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/more-cancer-less-death-new-alcohol-risk-reviews-offer-conflicting-takeaways/

hello?

• Wash hands.
• Pray.
• Reinstall.
• It *must* be you.

Yeahbutt...

It worked a couple hours ago.
Did something die?

I get how a fingerprint reader could suddenly expire, but...

PIN?? How the hell does a PIN go bad??

"Something" (o, sew helpful %$#@)

"Try again Later" wait for the overlords to wake up??

There's a slide-button that says "Only allow windows hello"
And I'm tempted to try it.
I mean, nothing else works.
Why (at 3AM) does the ceiling get all creaky when I enter the master-password??

Along "It MUST be you" lines, my drives are OK.
Maaaaybe memory is having an episode...

The fingerprint reader works. I was signed out of this (this here blog) place, and with a secret code and the fingerprint-reader, I'm back.

God forbid I land up in a hospital without my phone,,,

How am I gonna pay my bills from the Home™??

Well anyway, that's irrelevant, windows still lets me sign in using a fingerprint, but (my) fingerprints are transitory, what with blisters, dry skin and such, and I cannot change or add any fingerprints.
I haven't had to, except.... um... once in a while, windows refuses my fingerprint, and since I cannot change it (It used to have to be changed at least once a week)

This situation can only get worse.

Unless the servers at Microsoft took a dump and they'll be fixed in the morning (a guy can hope)

I *tried* reading their crap about kerberos servers, but...I'm nonplussed.

I also tried bypassing my router. No luck (Yes it's bypassed, no it didn't help)

I don't use "Hello for business" and windows-event viewer rubs it in every chance it gets.

I tried long ago (months) to remove hello for business and it finally bit me in the butt.

So in gpedit I changed "Disabled" to "Not configured".

It worked, or maybe the microsoft-tech finally showed up for work to reset their server, IDK.

Either way, it decided to work OK again.

Kitchen-sink reference (I didn't have to do most of this except the gpedit-thing)

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 this was about Baldur's gate.
Thoroughly opaque without google and reddit.

Wut?

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/baldur-s-gate-3-arcane-tower-guide-all-bernard-questions-correct-answers

1. Foe?
Friend!! Wake

2. Command, Liege

How trust? How show?

3. reveal!

(pick up the flashlight)

4.Command, liege

Sheets are all that's left, thoughtless gifts

(a healing potion)

The dirty little secret, is, that even though you may have googled the answers to questions that are very hard to hear (I think my audio-settings are messed up), it won't matter.

Because the game forces you to parrot wrong answers until you find the books containing the answers on different floors of the tower. Fail to do that and you're left with answers that piss off the robot.

Nothing in this damn tower means a whole lot, but it serves to draw out the plot.

If you could march right through mushroom-land, I guess you'd feel cheated.

Speaking of feeling cheated:

I found out that Shar's tedious trials don't actually have to be performed, at all.

Shadowheart still needs her spear, but you don't have to go through their pointless puzzles.
An unlock-spell and killing a fat guy (two fat guys) are all that the game requires.

The explanation for the above heretical sentence is too long, but summarizing:

You get a ball for every completed trial.
You really only need one ball, and that one is not from a trial.

Also, Shadowheart isn't needed. (Biggie "whaat?!")

Free the Dame, (the 'Night-Song') and that's it.

The E/I aspects of the drawn-out plot continue in the sorcerer's tower later on.

Kill the sorcerer, pass through some biggie puzzles, read some more books, and you will be rewarded with...nothing (I think the game hands you a useless certificate)

I should prolly have lied and deceived my way into the sorcerer's vault but it's much easier to wipe out everyone, read the damn book ("Karsus"-yada-something)

and ____(?)

Unfinished quests I can never figure out:
Free the hostages in the tower (Lotsa "towers", shades of LOTR/Harry Potter)

But slaughtering the evil guys leaves an empty tower (no hostages to save?)

And every playthrough I ponder trolls, gnomes, goblins, hobbits, midgets, dwarves (I'm supposed to know who is who, and I don't)

I've been called a bigot by those who think they know, but....
'they all look alike' to me.

The second-coming of trump, only he was prophesied to save hostages, for the history books, and they'll most likely be freed on the day of his inauguration.

Elephants will trumpet. Delay for a couple days. Blame the evil people.

Then, bask in the contrived glory (and the dancing)

(link)

Yea, verily.

For it is written:

(Link)

Rubbing it in for posterity

("This is CNN!" (sorry, dated reference, couldn't resist)

PBS

 That lady on PBS focuses on what people wore, a lot.

I just wondered, who was king way before?
King Edward-something (VII, The seventh)
Someone somewhere in there had a girlfriend, and abdicated.

O, I get it, you're trying to confews me...ha ha.

George V??

Wait, where did Edward VIII come in? (This is hard)

Edward was king for less than a year (1936)

THEN ______, 

OK...

• Edward VII
• George V
• Edward VIII
• George VI (the one in the can?)
  
  
  
  
  
  

Then his daughter Elizabeth (maybe, IDK)
Then Charles.

Teddy Roosevelt Liked King Edward (VII) a lot, And Edward wanted to meet and greet Roosevelt formally, but Mr. Roosevelt chose to go on a safari first and meet the king later.
Only, Edward died before they could meet, so Teddy went instead to the funeral.

Teddy was the guy with the Panama Canal thing.
If you google Trump and Teddy, lots of bombasts want to compare the two.
Way different much more bombastic blog.

I need to check this for typos and glaringly wrong facts, this is a draft for now.

Those hats and the lighters from the 30's-40's (Wait, I'll get pictures) are what I'd miss most about that time, Our current hats are stewpid.

I'm still looking for the lighters

(bah humbug)

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A show on PBS drags whatever subject out, or maybe that's just me having trouble sitting still waiting for their point.
A useful show (to me) would be,

what the hell diabetes-Titration is.

I think I found a chart.
My insurance / med group doesn't do fasting, but apparently that's a factor.

If you lived the life of a statue, never eating nor having any emotions,

the TDI of your combined daily boluses would be roughly

(Link)

But I think I need to add "/4" to calculate one bolus.

200/4 is (um)

50 but then (according to me, myself and I) you divide 50 by 4

to get around 12.
Add to that your meal and the little lie about your weight,

and you get 18, unless you live on tea with a ***-load of sugar, and then it's more.

O, and doughnuts.
And pie.

Subtract one or so for sweaty exercise.

They like to show off and will prolly go metric to describe doses, and change the word "Dose" to another, less readable word (Bolus?) (ml/unit/Kg?)

So they've justified your $400.00 10-minute consultation, because only THEY can decipher such inscrutable terms. mg/dl or mmol/l, is all "X", as a first-year algebra student will tell you (a reading of 100 mg/dL"x" is desirable)

They can't standardize, that would trivialize the arcaneness.

https://dtc.ucsf.edu/types-of-diabetes/type2/treatment-of-type-2-diabetes/medications-and-therapies/type-2-insulin-rx/calculating-insulin-dose/

(rant) 

Guilty-pleasure foods that raise cholesterol and sticky-up your brain, because healthy foods recommended by the pezzonovante and food councils are outlawed by your stomach,

Complicate matters (like this badly structured sentence.)
Kale and cabbage with EVOO are nice for pretty young things, but not for me.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vrn2z "an almond for breakfast"

Cheese, tortillas, milk, overripe avocados, cereal, $50

(Just sayin') so pissing-off my stomach (and its lower-down workers) is not an option.

Alcohol, perennially a pariah on holidays. They gave up trying to keep you from driving, now they say it causes cancer.
Well anyway, it messes up insulin readings too.

They've known about the dangers of sugar-substitutes since the early 70's, 

but powerful people disagree.

Renal failure:

After a few years, your kidneys go on strike and become unemployed.

Dialysis/death follow.
Or were you expecting a happy ending?

"Link to windows"

 yeah, great, I can link to windows and windows can see my phone's files, just not transfer anything to the phone! It comes up with some mealy-mouthed sync error.

It's easier to just plug in the phone to USB, which always works.
I'm blocking a USB driver by policy. O yeah? Which driver, what device???

The question is so dense and inscrutable that the moderator of a Microsoft forum sent it to the egghead forum, good luck finding it.

Oh, and then there's this:

Somewhere out there is a TP-Link RE105, and it's in my network!!
WHY doesn't THIS get blocked???

Reinstall. Promise "Link to windows" everything in your little world, every f'n drop of data, and it will decide to work (I think, I haven't tried to send a file yet)

This lady is famous because every question about Routers pops her up.
(ahh, smoooooth finishing)

anyway this will get edited more. My wifi is down for now, because I don't like wifi extenders feeling out my signal.
Network discovery is prolly a really bad idea.
But will "Link to windows" still work on a "Public" network?

No. Without my wifi it's useless. 

Network wi-fi doesn't count.

There are tons of networks on my neighborhood; only one
made it into my 'infrastructure'

ROTD (there are several, but this one is the most topical)

pixley et al

 Pixley is on the west coast. But fictionally it is in Missouri.

I used to think Sam Drucker's little store was in Pixley, but I was wrong.
Pixley is a place no one goes, they just mention it a lot.

My fictional geography sucks; Mount Pilot and Mayberry were a thousand or so miles away in North Carolina.
"Petticoat Junction" (for really die-hard fans) is sort of "Eldon Missouri" but I suspect they moved it slightly, to fit in with all the plots (e.g., "Bugtussle")

There's a Mexico in Missouri, and a California.

I gotta go look up what the hell a "County seat" is.
Our towns have a city-seat and a surrounding county, but "County seat?" We either have one and I just don't know, or it's peculiar to places like Missouri (I can always edit out my ignorance.) PS the junction of petticoat is too deep into the series for me to know whether it's a cute name or an actual (fictional) railroad junction.

Logic dictates (I wouldn't actually know) that since they don't build their own train or tracks, then at some time they must have tied into a big-ass company's railroad system.

The huge street-island was converted from a railroad-track 

to an old-couch burial ground. 

But that was real life; they must've "pruned" the junction long ago and now it's fit for couches and mattresses.

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I no longer get any groceries, Anthem erased it totally.
They were already picky, refusing to pay for stuff like sugar (for tea) 

but now it's totally gone, without any notification.
But Careful googling finally brought up this little tidbit:


SSBCI which unfortunately no one will know about, so I have to school myself and eventually, others, to get the right paperwork to fill out and get signed by whoever. Get a code https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes

You have to be pretty sick (you fell over and nearly died recently, there is very little hope left for you) and they exclude tons.
Well *fine* but if you're dying,

you wouldn't be shopping with their piddly-ass $50.

These are the same guys in the news who (at first) refused to pay additional fees for anesthesiology, then quickly changed their minds when X and Reddit got all pissed off.
I wonder if they'll feel the same about groceries??

Now all's I need is cancer.
Unfortunately, they don't pay for prescriptions,
and
they only give $50 a month,
And refuse sugar and TP.

Kiss their butt and still starve, no way.

Freaking eggs are 11.00, corn flakes are $5, "$50" pays for, uh,

well anyway it pays *something.*
But you need dementia a bad heart and cancer (I guess it's way cheaper than paying for a hospital bed and food, for them.)

"Cancer? Let them eat cake"

They've deigned to graciously allow me a free glucose meter (It's all related, I swear) 

as long as it's Accu-Chek or one-touch. All others are unworthy.

Fine.

WHICH Accu-Chek, WHICH one-touch??
Reddit hates both and wants a (****) brand, not covered.
Accu-Chek Aviva is not available 

It's for shure that I have no choice in the matter, even though it Looks like I do from this obscure document:

WHICH One-touch ?
WHICH Accu-Chek??

I seriously doubt they'd just let me pick!!

If the app or computer program approves, I'd like the verio-reflect, being 50% of my choices, but I'll prolly be forced into "Guide-me"

Pre-emptively buy something or wait for them to dole out something?

I was *hoping* to buy the decent-est meter around, but maybe that's a dumb thing to do.
My CGM (on the other hand) has to be "freestyle Libre" 

(not accu-chek, not one-touch??) although I've had this insurance for a year, and the Dexcom-6 CGM has been free, this wouldn't be getting written if they weren't trying to cut costs.
So, a biggie unknown.
No aspersions on the doctor, who would know all this, except...She is no longer in their directory and we have not spoken for months...

I might have to go off-book and buy my own, eventually

 (e.g. "contour" yada-whatever)

I don't know if MedicineNet is a shill and a puppet, or if reddit posters have been assimilated or not, or if the strips will be hard to find, but on the surface, they seem nice.

Today's overall disastrous news ("glorious"/disastrous)

can prolly be ignored, at least for now, as I wonder how badly my insulin was damaged after leaving it out for a few hours (or overnight, I really can't remember)

Is it like eggs or cheese? Or are they speaking mostly about germs?

I wrote one of these long ago, wondering if insulin needed air to breathe.
I concluded "no." 
Chemicals can change based upon temperature.
I found out that loading my syringe today was lots easier because the insulin  

was at room temperature (80-something).

So it changes.
Can it be refrigerated again or is it permanently damaged?

Agglomerates, ok, mm-hmm.

gt-be98 pro "certificate"?

 Addendum to my longish blog about my router.
I used to think that changing any setting would invalidate the certificate (the one that lets you log in without dire warnings about being unsafe.)
NOW I know that just Rebooting the router, or shutting off power and then turning it back on, messes with the certificate on the router; now the router certificate and the PC certificate don't like each other, 

and I must generate a different computer certificate.

So...What? This is worse than the old firmware version, 37031 (I'm using 37038)

Then it gets real complicated. 
If I knew how, I could create a certificate and upload it to the router, and use the router to send a certificate to my PC.
Generally speaking, I need a router certificate that doesn't change, despite reboots and settings.

The guys making the User interface (for guys like me) ignore the user interface, preferring line commands. That's my only explanation for why this happens more than a year after the router was released.

I won't have a valid certificate because they've invalidated it?
What is a CRL?

The most basic router instructions are lost on me anyway; shades of high school math classes.

OK a brief look at this train-of-thought: 
One way to get a certificate (for WAN access??) is to use DDNS.
I don't want WAN access, although I'm sure you-all have worked around it.

But I *did* briefly want to look at my local-area-network, 

specifically, the address-assignment page ("DHCP".)

I'm rewriting this sentence...Lan Gateway vs Wan Gateway (I'm glad I'm not in speech class making a presentation)
My primary router in a Lan is the gateway, um, which makes the modem (which is a router) My primary router, but it's not,

 because of the DHCP. (I'm double-NATting.)
Clear-as-mud but I get it (sort of.)

Now I (prolly) know my modem's address and the router's addresses should be on the same subnet. (I think I know, but there would be a conflict, so no)

Forcing the subnet on my router to use unused addresses on the modem's subnet is something I want to try, eventually  (static IP on the PC with The modem as the gateway, should have worked, *did* work, in a half-ass way.

Google-news worked, but a few of the sites it pointed to did not.
Static-IP (modem-LAN), *Router* gateway, didn't work very well either.
Only DHCP. So (if you're following along) jiggling addresses just made stuff a lot worse. 

Yeah, I *know*, but...

Well...that doesn't solve my certificate-problem, except to spell out that DDNS is not an option.

I'm not running a server either. 
I don't want every pissant with a keyboard trying to get into my router.

So, any options left?

Trigonometry vs quantum physics:

https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1034294/#a1

It's not like this doesn't work, but if you dare to change a setting, or dare to "apply"

a setting that causes the router to reboot itself,

Then the certificate you just downloaded and installed per their instructions, becomes invalid.

Several times a guy is presented with the login-page, which is unsafe, then

after consenting to the danger, is presented with the login page!
Then a new warning comes up that it's unsafe, then you consent,

then another login page!!
This is circular, in case you didn't notice.
Eventually though, through luck and pushing little buttons, it breaks out of this loop and actually logs you in. I already wrote that "37038", their latest version, caused this login loop.

I also already vaguely referred to the command-line programs that true hackers use to hack into the router, ignoring whatever I see in menus.

In other words, It's all a crock of shit.