The funniest Italian-Iranian pro-life right wing comedian you’ll probably see today:
May 042023
May 032023
Three main options:
1) Ukrainian quadcopter flew hundreds of miles.
2) Russians PO’ed about their crappy government and their stupid war
3) The Russian government did it themselves.
Personally, #3 makes the most sense to me. Caiming that Ukraine launched an assassination/terrorist attack against Dear Leader is good propaganda, and it gives the Kremlin permission – as if it really needs it – to launch further extermination campaigns against Ukraine. If evidence can be manufactured to show that the drones came from, say, Germany or Finland or the US, that gives that much more evidence that Mother Russia needs to wipe out the west.
There are, of course, other options:
4) The Chinese did it. Why? For the same reason Red China hired SPECTRE to develop reusable launch vehicle technology in the med-60’s in order to snatch both US and USSR capsules from orbit: to spark a war between the other two powers. China stays out of it, then moves into the chaos and rubble afterwards.
May 022023
In 2017 a guy stole a pickup truck (pretty sure it’s a Ford, but I’m no trucknologist) and led Oklahoma police on a two-plus hour chase. It’s… something.
Apr 292023
Adam Savage has a bunch of old (decades) silicone molds sitting doing nothing. Silicone, sadly, degrades not just from use, but over time; a mold that is years old will almost certainly fall into ruin if you try to cast a part using it. So, if you have an old mold that you want to get parts out of, what to do? Well, if you are well connected you get someone to CAT scan the mold, create an STL model of the mold, convert the hollow space within into a solid model, then 3D print. Easy! Anybody can do it! But here’s the thing: each scan the CAT scanner makes takes 30 seconds… and each mold could take 1500 scans to complete. So… twelve and a half solid hours on a CAT scanner.
Huh.
Apr 292023
I woulda bought the hell out of a *lot* of these kits… had they been made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX5B1TUUOA0
Apr 272023
Wow.
Apr 242023
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this, but I never fail to be impressed with the delivery. Steven Spielberg, director of “Jaws,” gave Robert Shaw permission to write this monologue about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis (after the great John Milius had a crack at it). Shaw then delivered it, reportedly, drunk. And it’s one of the most amazing bits of understated acting in film history. One of the details I’ve always liked is how Hooper goes from jovial to “Oh Crap” in one breath when Quint says that his removed tattoo is of the USS Indianapolis.
I’m a bit disturbed that so many of these reactors are unaware of the story of the Indianapolis. But given how ignorant so many people are about so many things anymore, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
“Jaws” is still eminently watchable, one of the great films of all time.
Apr 242023
110 years in prison for selling flat pieces of metal.
Apr 192023
Launch window opens tomorrow (suspiciously, 4/20) at 8:28 AM central time, lasts for about an hour.
Apr 182023
1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse
Things in this country have gone from “weird” to “concerning” to “downright embarrassing.”
Good thing the mayor of New York has his priorities in the right place: