# Random Musings (and associated non sequiturs) v. 3.0
**URL:** https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478
**Category:** general
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478 "2013-10-10T00:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 237
### Author:  [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4792 "2022-06-22T18:23:24Z")
Federal legislation against catalytic converter theft is a waste of time. It’s already illegal to steal one.
Why does anyone think crap like this is the fed’s job?
---
### Author:  [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4793 "2022-06-23T00:26:29Z")
You can legislate all you want, but that ain’t gonna stop people.
Only by enforcing the law with consequences for all to see…
Unfortunately, enforcing is the issue. Too little cops and too much cars with yummy catalytic converters.
Likewise - if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have gins.
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4794 "2022-06-23T01:25:14Z")
Yellowstone is starting to open back up, so that indicates people got out okay.
The park has five entrances. The roads in the park for the north and northeast entrances are closed. The park is limiting how many people can be in at one time at the other three. If your license plate ends in an odd number, you can go in on odd-numbered days.
Regarding that picture of the heavily modified construction vehicle, I wonder if that’s how the Mortal Engines started out?
---
### Author:  [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4795 "2022-06-23T11:51:03Z")
> [@RRabbit42](#):
>
> Mortal Engines
_chef’s kiss_
Liked that movie a lot.
---
### Author:  [@Nabiki](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Nabiki)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4796 "2022-07-02T00:04:47Z")
I’ve moved out of the house I’ve lived in for over 50 years. You know what? I liked having a house to live in.
---
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4797 "2022-07-02T16:38:06Z")
Isn’t “hibernate” supposed to shut the laptop entirely after writing memory to disk? So that the power doesn’t drain?
---
### Author:  [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4798 "2022-07-02T18:43:52Z")
Yes, it’s supposed to.
Somebody probably confused sleep mode and hibernate mode.
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4799 "2022-07-15T04:12:41Z")
I think they forgot a critical word in the second line: “Package”.
---
### Author:  [@Viking](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Viking)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4800 "2022-07-15T09:43:54Z")
Maybe they didn’t forget anything…
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4801 "2022-07-16T04:17:09Z")
Oh lord. Old Spice guy interrupts an Arby’s commercial.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-r8XHtgcMU)
---
### Author:  [@GITM](https://cog.discourse.group/u/GITM)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4802 "2022-07-16T06:09:04Z")
Funny, but the half pound roast beef sandwich isn’t that big. The Meat Mountain is, but even I only tried that once. A bit too messy to make the rotation. 🫠
---
### Author:  [@Viking](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Viking)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 7:27am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4803 "2022-07-16T07:27:08Z")
Come to think of it, what do they mean by “post-consumer content”??
If I consume something, then what comes out afterwards could be classed as “post-consumer content”, no??
---
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4804 "2022-07-16T13:17:18Z")
> [@Viking](#):
>
> Come to think of it, what do they mean by “post-consumer content”??
Paper that came from the recycling bins of homes and businesses (shipping containers).
As opposed to waste material in manufacturing processes.
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4805 "2022-07-23T20:01:18Z")
@Viking: That’s where I was going with pointing out the missing word. One of the meanings of “consume” is “eat”.
I get home today and I see a large, oddly-shaped bumblebee make a fast descent into the grass. I move a little closer and see it’s actually two and the smaller looks like it’s vibrating. Just pure random chance that I happened by at that spot at that time to catch a small glimpse of a mating flight.
---
### Author:  [@Rizak](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Rizak)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4806 "2022-07-23T22:15:51Z")
I feel that there should have been some birds nearby.
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4807 "2022-07-23T22:44:38Z")
Best I can do on short notice.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI78YnC6lwE)
---
### Author:  [@RRabbit42](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RRabbit42)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4808 "2022-07-26T05:36:30Z")
Is it just me, or is a pastor of a church and his wife having [over $1 million worth of jewelry](https://cnn.com/2022/07/25/us/brooklyn-pastor-robbery/index.html) that they wear in the church itself a sign they might have been paid too high of a salary?
The church has been around for nine years, yet the pastor is known for wearing designer outfits and extravagant jewelry. Shouldn’t at least some of that money gone towards other portions of the ministry?
---
### Author:  [@Rizak](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Rizak)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4809 "2022-07-26T21:57:10Z")
Is it these guys?
> **[Prosperity theology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology)**
>
> Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith)\[A\] is a religious belief among some Protestant Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Material and especially financial success is seen as a sign of divine favor.
> Prosperity theology has been criticize...
---
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4810 "2022-07-26T21:57:59Z")
Maybe it’s not a salary and they’re just skimming off the church’s funds.
---
### Author:  [@GITM](https://cog.discourse.group/u/GITM)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/4811 "2022-07-27T03:51:09Z")
Isn’t that redundant?
Slightly more seriously. I went to a Christian college. A lot of the guys were religion majors and many of them went on to become preachers. The ones espousing prosperity gospel always rubbed me, a militant agnostic, the wrong way even more than the proselytizing folks. I got along fine with ‘the quiet ones’.
[Previous page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478.md?page=236)
[Next page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478.md?page=238)