No. I didn’t see the others.

Yes it will take time. But using your analogy, it’s like a bakery that can shelve 200 loaves of bread with 3 good loaves remaining, and 50 moldy loaves of bread still on the shelf.

But in this case, if we don’t just leave the loaves on the shelf, there’s a process to recover 45 of those moldy loaves as good usable loaves.

Or we could just leave the moldy ones alone, because cleanup takes time and money. But we lose shelf space for good loaves and who knows what the the health risk is to the workers.

The sludge can eat away at the container, exposing the environment to toxins. It’s also using a good deal of their storage. Their maximum is 75 million barrels, with 20 million barrels worth of sludge. That’s product that can’t be sold as is and is simply being stored.

That’s a fair assessment. I don’t argue that we need more oil. It just seems like a waste for them to be containing so much unusable product.

First it says

In normal times, Cushing stores around 40 million barrels of oil with capacity of up to 75 million.

But then…

When Cushing’s reserves get below 20 million, they effectively hit empty, scraping the bottom of the barrel of what is largely unusable sludge.

From what I find, there is a way to reprocess the sludge, such as distillation and pyrolysis.

https://www.doinggroup.com/index.php?u=show-2174.html

Floytweg claims it can recover up to 90%

The Flottweg Tricanter® system offers a comprehensive solution for oil sludge treatment, recovering approximately 90% of the oil from sludge in ponds, lagoons, or from crude oil tank cleaning. This not only recycles the oil as a valuable product but also significantly reduces the volume of solids to be disposed of, cutting down on transport, landfill, and incineration costs.

https://www.flottweg.com/applications/industrial-waste-mineral-oils/oil-sludge/

While I acknowledge there is a cost, the tanks could be cleaned and most of the oil recovered.

Whoa! A Whole 80 days?

Well, you can’t say a former governor got off easy. Those 70 days will be pure hell.

I mean imagine how she’ll feel serving that long 60-day sentence.

She could get out for good behavior, maybe after half of that 50-day sentence.

Of course, the judge might make her serve that whole month so that she can set an example.

That week will probably make her regret what she did.

That’ll probably be the longest weekend of her life.

It all comes down to their specialty, right?

If they’re moving product, you’ve got The Black Orchard (the growers) or The Phantom Crucible (the mad scientists). If it’s a white-collar price cartel just chasing dollar signs, you want something like The Thorned Veil for that elegant, deceptive front, or The Broken Halo Network for a gritty, fallen-from-grace feel.

But if they’re a territorial cartel? The kind where crossing a border gets you killed? Go with The Crimson Ledger—where every debt is settled in blood. Or The Ashen Wolves, because they will straight-up burn down your business if you trespass

To hurry or leave.

But my mental picture is a donkey in a trailer…

Why don’t we take care of each other as decent people? Why do we have to decide who is more worthy? We have too many money-grubbing billionaires. Maybe if we watched out for each other, we wouldn’t have to worry about what the other guy is doing.

Maybe it wouldn’t work, but it would be nice to try. Look what happened in 1914:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie?wprov=sfti1

What is not my absolute favorite joke. He tries really hard when he plays.

What’s on second, Who’s on first, and I Don’t Know’s on third.

Thanks for the added information!

High Voltage

Powerage

Flick of the Switch

Power Up

GUI - graphical user interface, like a windowed program.

Non-gui, lacking a window, like running a command in a terminal (or command prompt).

No orcing way…

Whaddaya orcing know…

I can sort of see it.

Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it “Walking Dead” fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.

“This technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance,” warns Julian Todt from KASTEL. “If you regularly pass by a café that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without noticing it and be recognized later – for example by public authorities or companies.”

Later…

Inexpensive or older routers either don’t store history at all or keep it for a short time.

Newer models can store more information for more extended periods.

https://www.thetechwire.com/how-long-does-a-router-store-history/

“Roots” was among the first widely read works of fiction to offer a detailed account of the Middle Passage, the horrific transatlantic journey to America endured by enslaved Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries.

“Prior to its release, the impact of slavery was easy to diminish or deny by those that benefited the most from that system,” said Annastasia Williams, bookshop director at The Bottom bookstore and cultural organization.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2026/05/15/knox-county-schools-bans-historical-novel-roots-by-alex-haley/90080042007/

#include <grammar>

using namespace std;

int main() {

int programmer;

if (programmer > -1) { cout << "Programmers be owning your language. "; }

cout << “Plonk! Fnord!”;

return 0; }

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-flights-airports-snap-11-09-25

• What happens next? There is more to come before the government can reopen. Any one senator can delay consideration of the package for several days, plus the House will have to return and adopt the deal struck in the Senate before it gets sent to President Donald Trump’s desk.