Boeing moving headquarters to D.C.

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May 052022
 

Boeing *used* to have their headquarters where they actually made stuff. Then they moved to Chicago (far, far away from their manufacturing capabilities), and since then their ability to make stuff has been… kind of a joke.Now they’re moving to the region of D.C. Their ability to make stuff can be assumed to be at an end.

Boeing will move its headquarters to DC area from Chicago

Maybe Elon Musk could buy Boeings factories? It’s not like Boeing will have much further need for them, now that they will be a full-time Lobbying Corporation.

 Posted by at 4:40 pm

Dave Chappelle attacked onstage

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May 042022
 

Well, this should prove an interesting tale, especially when they figure out the motive:

Attacker had an ill-defined weapon… apparently it looked like a gun, but was a knife… and apparently it could hurl the blade. “Ballistic knives” are fundamentally kinda useless weapons, only cool to those in middle school, but they’re also often illegal which seems to be the case in California. Since they are illegal in California, and since a criminal certainly would not break the law in California, it’s a mystery what the attacker actually had.

I’m 50/50 on whether the attacker was politically motivated or just bog standard bugnuts. In either case, it’s reasonable to assume that public displays of humor are likely going to decline a bit.

 Posted by at 10:29 am

And so it begins…

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May 042022
 

After the unprecedented (and I’m led to understand illegal) leak of the Supreme Court preliminary opinion on overturning Roe vs Wade, the violent insurrectionists, yearning for the glory days of 2020, are back to doing what they do: violence.

With a healthy (?) dollop of Current Year Progressive Discourse:

 Posted by at 1:58 am

Oh boy! Mayhem!

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May 022022
 

If this is true… boy howdy will the fallout be *amazingly* entertaining.

ENGAGE LOKI MODE

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

If true, this could well result in the Democrats seizing further control in November, since they will be able to use this to fearmonger. In any event, politicking in the next few months will be energetic.

Man, I wish I could invest in Libs of TikTok.

 Posted by at 9:07 pm

Turns out the little drones can do a *lot* of damage!

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May 022022
 

Previous footage showed a little drone dropping something akin to a grenade, doing damage to soft targets. Here’s one apparently kerploding a *tank.* WTF??? It drops *two* bombs, so it’s clearly not one of those dinky camera drones, but something bigger, but it still seems like a whole lot of bang for the buck.

 Posted by at 11:18 am

That is one *hell* of a freeze-frame: UPDATED

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May 012022
 

Horror footage shows moment Chechen commander killed while boasting about victories

He’s jabbering away, filming himself with his cell phone …

… when something comes zipping in and explodes right next to him. The moment of the explosion is not captured well, as you would expect with a millisecond-moment on a crappy cell phone… but what is caught – badly focused, motion-blurred, jarred, etc. – looks like we’re seeing this guys soul being sent directly to Hell:

Neato. A Chechen fighting for Russia to invade another country? Hell would seem an appropriate destination.

Note: I saw the video yesterday, but durned if I can find it again. Oh well.

UPDATE: link to the video after the break. I have also put three frames there… “normal,” “uh-oh” and “transporter malfunction.” Seriously: modern pseudo-Star Trek *loves* horrible things and horrible people; I’m surprised I haven’t seen horrible transporter screwups. If they decide to do such a thing, that third frame could serve as a template. A disturbing template.

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 Posted by at 7:11 pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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May 012022
 

Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled

Nothing locks up like a stolen $300,000 John Deere combine shipped by Russian invaders to Chechnya.

What would be best would be if these stolen vehicles could go on some sort of Killdozer rampage. Or just burn themselves up. But turning themselves into bricks is a nice start. Sure, the thieves will simply take them to a chop shop and make some money on the spare parts (something Russian farmers are going to need since doubtless John Deere customer support is likely thin on the ground in Russia these days), but they won’t do near as well as if they’d had functional equipment.

Maybe don’t steal things.

 Posted by at 6:23 pm
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