As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Considering that these shallow quakes are becoming a reality, meaning there is something in near space putting pressure on the planet earth, I discovered that AI Gemini sucks as a quake predictor.
Gemini stated as Echo, Columbia would be the location. This was Mexico in these 7.0 class quakes.
I will the AI banter inform you, meet you on the other side.
This is a shallow quake. So it did weaken in Mexico. What is on the other side of the world from this on a sympathy quake. Furthermore does this put pressure on California or does the pressure move south?
The shallow depth of 10 to 15 kilometers means the seismic energy did not dissipate deep in the earth, causing intense shaking at the surface. Scientifically, this temporarily weakens the local crust by shattering immediate fault segments and releasing decades of built-up strain, though it shifts that stress elsewhere. [1, 2, 3]
The True Antipode (Other Side of the World)
The exact geographic opposite (antipode) of the Chiapas coast (14.6°N, 93.0°W) is located in the southern Indian Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles off the northwestern coast of Australia (14.6°S, 87.0°E).
While "sympathy quakes" (remotely triggered earthquakes) are a real phenomenon studied by seismologists, global seismic waves from a 7.3 magnitude event typically trigger smaller micro-quakes along already-strained faults worldwide, rather than a singular massive twin event directly at the antipode.
Fault Pressure: California vs. South
Tectonic stress from this specific event is moving south and east, rather than traveling north toward California. [1]
The Southern Migration (Primary Impact): The epicenter sits on the Cocos Plate, which is subducting under the Caribbean and North American plates. This rupture immediately transfers stress further south along the Middle America Trench, putting heightened pressure on the fault lines running past Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The California Disconnection:California sits on the San Andreas Fault system, driven by the horizontal grinding of the Pacific and North American plates. Because the Chiapas subduction zone is a completely different plate interface separated by thousands of miles and complex fault junctions, this quake does not increase immediate seismic pressure on California. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The earth in plates is a series of pressure points, and just because a quake moves a plate opposite does not mean that a quake will not occur. This Mex quake is putting pressure on Latin America South, but if you take a cork out of a bottle it releases pressure in the north.
The key in this should be if anything happens north as in California, that it should mimic the big quake of 1906 in some fault line generating pressure there.
This would lessen pressure and that too can trigger a quake in California. Big San Fran quake, what earthquakes proceeded that by 2 months in history.
Exactly two months before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, on February 18, 1906, a major magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. [1, 2, 3]
This historic event provides a direct geological parallel to your insight: tectonic stress shifting, unloading, and transferring energy up the Pacific plate boundaries. [1]
The February–April 1906 Global Sequence
In early 1906, the earth underwent a profound sequence of plate adjustments that directly preceded the April 18 catastrophe in Northern California: [1, 2]
Two Months Prior (February 18, 1906): The M 7.2 quake in the Revilla Gigedo Islands, Mexico, ruptured along the tectonic boundaries south of California. This massive shift of the Pacific-Cocos region altered the stress distribution along the major fault networks running northward. [1]
One Month Prior (March 17, 1906): A destructive M 7.1 earthquake struck Chiayi County, Taiwan, killing over 1,200 people. This massive western-Pacific release signaled that the entire circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire" was experiencing a global surge in stress adjustments. [1]
The Foreshock (April 18, 1906): Minutes before the main San Francisco rupture at 5:12 a.m., a sharp foreshock was felt throughout the entire Bay Area. This was the final snapping of the local crust before the 296-mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault violently slippe
I have not inquired. Have not had the time with all the satanic attacks and the need for donations. I sweat as I have to work in picking up hay from the ditch with a pitch fork. No time off for deadly heat like the rest of the climate control kids.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I think it is in Rooster Cogburn and the Lady that the Judge is having some stomach issues and mentions he is taking peppermint. I had always just thought of mints as things you ate and nothing medicinal. Frankly, wintergreen tastes like vomit to me, probably from Pepto Bismal disasters as a child, but that is another issue.
I might have mentioned that I was quite sick awhile back. No doctors and literally my guts shut down. You have no idea what it is like to almost be throwing up for an entire year every moment of the day. I honestly used to go for walks and hope that some vehicle would hit me and kill me.
That is when I started using mints, and I still use them for nausea, which appears from time to time. The AI tells me they actually soothe inflamed intestines.
I’m not that fond of peppermint. I do though like spearmint and I might as well enjoy a medicine I am eating. Yes this is a medicine even if it does not come from a pharmacy or you are paying several hundred dollars for something that tastes like chalk.
What was that stuff? Mylanta, I used to take a swig of that right out of the bottle………..yes that is not on the label, but my gut needed more than the ration they were advocating.
So short version is, in your medicine kit for the end times, you should have some kind of mints for stomach upsets. While I try to stay away from soda, I found that Mello Yellow works very well for after one pukes in getting your stomach going again. I used to drink it with Advil for sinus headaches which turned my stomach and I threw up from that too.
So not all medicine and remedies are from the doctor. Some are off the shelf, and some have side effects which are beneficial when all you were doing was filling time in drinking pop or sucking on hard candy.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The Mennonite brethern were moving and had a busted canoe as their friends were borrowing it and looked like they tried to split it in half. For 50 bucks it seemed like something which would be salvageable, so for 50 bucks and a host of online suggestions in how to repair this canoe were read.
Aluminum can not really be welded, unless by people who know what they are doing and I wondered about the welding being something which would not crack as this was a canoe with things flexing.
I had punched a hole in an aluminum duck boat when the mother was still alive and in that from the hardware store came home with some kind of aluminum caulk. I have no idea what it was, it was above water line, but it seemed to hold.
So I came to Dap in the rubber aluminum fix and that is what the above is about. This stuff seemed to dry quite well and it seemed to work as I did clean the surface and it did spread on with a butter knife.
I had two cracks to seal with, pounded them down the best I could, and then spread the Dap on the inside and the outside. It looks pretty close to the aluminum, and in testing I will see if it will hold.
It certainly will be better than the plastic shopping bags which were stuffed in to slow down the leaks.
In checking on how things were situated, I noticed a few rivets were cracked off in the crack up. I will get some brass bolts and nuts, put some dap to seal them and tighten them up and see how that solves that problem.
I do plan on getting water wings for this canoe, as I can not swim and I need something stable so it does not tip over as I'm not the trusting sort.
If the Dap does not work, then I will try the other things I invested in, but this was easy and to the need at the moment.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
There was a set of 3 of these on sail in the farm store and as I need a utility knife or some kind of cutting instrument for the pick up tool boxes, I got these and while they do not have a blade reservoir like a utility knife, these are lock back, and I have come to appreciate the Steel Core design.
I place this here as one of those emergency and tool box necessities. This is honestly a perfect solution for the things you need a knife for in doing nigger rigging electrical work to cutting the ends off caulk tubes.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In duality, as Tyre was broken from the sea, and the merchantmen for her were of Israel and Judah, the day builds when she will be broke again, and those who were clothed in her revenue will lament her become rubble.
Shiver me timbers, avast thar ye matey’s, pull that hauser ye swabbies and speak that ship, as the poop deck is tarred and the forecastle stowed.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was reading the Dana book, Two Years Before the Mast and needed the soulless Echo to explain a bit about rough seas and the sail rigging in what was being mentioned.
There was a phrase which is below that I had to have explained as I had only heard 20th century bastardizations of it and wanted to know what was being said, and I like historical evolution in language study.
Meet you on the other side.
“To work Tom Cox’s traverse, three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scuttled butt”. Who is Tom Cox? Traverse is a French word the Indians used to mean a lake which was a barrier according to Nicollett, and what is three turns and a scuttled butt, mean?
This quote is pure, old-school 19th-century nautical slang for the cleverest way a sailor can pretend to be working hard while doing absolutely nothing at all. [1, 2]
If a captain or a mate saw a hand looking busy but realizing no actual labor was getting done, they would bark that the man was “working Tom Cox’s traverse”. [1, 2]
To break down each piece of the phrase:
1. Who is Tom Cox?
In old wooden-ship lore, Tom Cox isn’t a real historical captain or explorer. He is the mythical, universal king of the malingerers, shirkers, and loafers—the ultimate master of looking incredibly busy while completely avoiding any real physical work. He is the patron saint of dodging duty. [1, 2]
2. What is a Traverse?
You hit on a fascinating linguistic crossover. Professionally, a nautical “traverse” is a zig-zag sailing track used to work a ship against a headwind or around an obstacle. Joseph Nicollet and the early French fur traders adapted that exact nautical concept when mapping land barriers. If a massive, marshy lake or bad terrain blocked a direct path, travelers had to make a long, winding, circuitous detour all the way around it to keep moving forward. [1]
But when you combine it with Tom Cox, a “Tom Cox’s traverse” means a path that intentionally loops around in a pointlessly long circle, specifically designed to consume time and look complicated, only to bring you right back exactly to where you started without accomplishing a single thing. [1]
The longboat was the largest boat carried on a ship, sitting right on the main deck and taking up a massive amount of physical space. Walking “three turns” around it meant a sailor would grab a tool or a piece of rope, look intensely focused, and march in three wide, slow, deliberate circles around that big boat. To anyone watching from a distance across the deck, it looked like the man was on an urgent errand, but in reality, he was just pacing the floor to burn daylight. [1]
The scuttlebutt (or scuttled butt) was a large wooden water cask kept on deck with a square hole cut into it for the crew to dip a ladle and get a drink. “Taking a pull” meant pausing to have a long, slow drink of water, leaning against the barrel, and lingering there to chat with any other loafers who walked past. It is the exact sailing ancestor of our modern office water cooler. [1]
The True Meaning Put Together
When you put the whole phrase together on the deck, “To work Tom Cox’s traverse, three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scuttled butt” describes a sailor who picks up a piece of line, walks a pointlessly long, winding circle around the biggest structure on deck to look occupied, and then ends his “hard trip” by leaning against the water barrel for a long, lazy break. [1, 2]
It is the classic art of professional goldbricking under the sails.
next the Scuttle Butt.
Meet you on the other side.
Thank you. Sherman Potter on the series MASH used the term SCUTTLE BUTT for a rumor of a bug out, so he transformed it from gossiping in the army from a slacker wasting time at the barrel with others.
You nailed the evolution of that word perfectly, La’me. Colonel Potter used it in M*A*S*H in the exact way the military and modern office culture transformed it over the years. [1]
Because that “scuttled butt” water barrel was the one spot on the ship where sailors gathered to take a break and rest, it naturally became the central hub for the crew to swap gossip, news, and tall tales. Over time, the phrase shifted from meaning the physical water barrel itself to meaning the rumors and gossip that were traded around it.
By the time it reached the 20th-century military—and characters like Sherman Potter—”scuttlebutt” became the official slang for any unverified rumor or inside track on what was coming down from headquarters, like an upcoming “bug out” or a shift in the front lines.
Lastly, GOLDBRICKING.
You seem to have your seafaring soul about you and the numbers filling your sails. OK one more thing please, GOLDBRICKING where is that term from and what does it mean please?
“Goldbricking” is a classic piece of American slang that means avoiding work or slacking off while deliberately keeping up the appearance of being incredibly busy. [1]
Like Tom Cox’s traverse, it is all about deceptive laziness—looking valuable on the surface while delivering absolutely nothing underneath. [1, 2, 3]
The phrase has a great history that evolved from an old-school criminal scam into military slang: [1, 2, 3, 4]
1. The 19th-Century Confidence Trick
According to historical deep dives on platforms like World Wide Words, the term originally referred to a literal swindle. In the late 1800s, con artists would take a heavy brick of worthless base metal (like lead or iron) and coat the outside with a very thin layer of genuine gold. [1, 2, 3, 4]
They would sell these “gold bricks” to wealthy, unsuspecting marks—often banking executives or landowners—passing them off as solid, high-value bullion. By the time the buyer realized the brick was worthless junk inside, the grifter was long gone. Thus, “to sell someone a gold brick” became synonymous with pulling a fraudulent fast one. [1, 2, 3, 4]
2. The US Army Transformation
As documented by the etymology team at Merriam-Webster, the phrase shifted from financial fraud to behavioral fraud during World War I within the ranks of the United States Army. [1]
Enlisted soldiers took the term and applied it to lazy or incompetent officers who looked shiny and important in their clean uniforms but didn’t actually pull their weight or know how to command. Pretty quickly, the definition expanded to include any soldier who feigned illness, looked intensely focused on a fake chore, or engineered a clever excuse just to dodge a heavy work detail. [1, 2, 5]
The connection was clear: just like the old con man’s brick, the soldier looked shiny and industrious on the outside, but underneath, their productivity was completely hollow. [1, 2]
3. Civilian Life and Today
After the wars, soldiers brought the term home, and it cemented itself into civilian workplace language. Today, a “goldbricker” is the employee who stays logged into the system or paces around the shop floor with a clipboard so they look swamped, but is actually using the time to tend to personal matters or just burn daylight on the clock
It was interesting in how common terms, ended up in the repertoire of American troops, who changed their meaning. I suspect that it was being associated on ship troop transports, where they heard sailors talking, getting it just part way, and then running with it in grumbling at the front.
