This steel mill seems to have a minor issue.
The amount of product that was lost in a way that destroyed other things too pic.twitter.com/uheTTbAKi5
— Expensive Fails (@expensive_fails) September 8, 2022
Sep 102022
Sep 102022
Memphis had a spree shooting incident a few days ago. Why did the shooter, one Ezekiel Kelly, do this? Hard to say. But there’s a little detail that seems kinda important. A detail that had it been different, might have led to a very different outcome. From THIS LINK:
In February 2020, Kelly was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records obtained by Heavy show. A grand jury indicted on him on those charges in June 2020. He was 17 years old at the time.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in April 2021 and was sentenced to three years in prison. Kelly served only 11 months in prison and was released only about six months ago, authorities said in the news conference.
Huh.
For starters, he tried to murder someone and was sentenced to only three years… and then only served eleven months. If the justice system actually worked, he would still be in the early stages of his “life plus ninety days to help stink up the joint” sentence. Murderers – actual murderers, not people who kill in self defense, or purely accidentally, etc. – need to be separated from society *permanently.* And attempted murderers are simply murderers who are slightly less competent, and thus should receive the same sentence.
People need to start suing government officials responsible for letting murderers walk among us.
Sep 072022
Reminds me somewhat of DC’s recently finished-but-canceled “Batgirl” movie:
World’s biggest cruise ship is set to be sold for scrap before first voyage as owners go bankrupt: $1.6BILLION vessel was built with 20-decks and a WATER PARK
The “Global Dream II” cost more than *billion* dollars and is structurally complete but currently lacking in finishing touches (reportedly $200 million dollars to go). It’s 1,122 feet long and design to carry nine THOUSAND passengers. What astonished me the most, apart for the utter failure that this represents, is that it was apparently built indoors. The cruise line that paid for it went bankrupt and apparently could not find a buyer for the ship, so it’s to be broken up for scrap. The waste involved here is breathtaking. Think of all that could be done with a vessel like that. Granted, it’s a civilian cruise liner, and that comes with certain definite limitations; any idea of turning it into a combat vessel (it’s certainly big enough to be a creditable aircraft carrier) kinda go right out the window. But perhaps it could have made a dandy hospital ship. Or a floating apartment block.
It reminds me, because of course it does, of my “War With the Deep Ones” story “Champion of the Seas,” which you can get here:
Sep 062022
Project Veritas filmed another assistant principal talking proudly about how he gets rid of teachers based on their politics. But this time, not only are his actions criminals… so are his speech patterns. This guy does that wretched “uptalk” thing that the smugwoke do regularly, and it makes him difficult to listen to.
Sep 042022
Well, this is weird:
Not the sort of headline you tend to expect out of Canada.
Sep 042022
Comedian Andrew Schulz realizes why children are being used as political mouthpieces: because you aren’t allowed to argue with them, no matter how ridiculous, wrong or downright evil their positions are.
NSFW language is deployed.
Sep 032022
Lots of folks don’t like the show. They are not wrong to do so.
I’m seeing people arguing back and forth on whether or not to “hate watch” the show. Shrug. I can see both sides: give up and sigh in vague, fatigued defeatism, which is where I am with this; or rage against the dying of the light. I will never not hate on bad Star Trek; I’ve got forty years of fandom invested there. But LotR is *only* thirty or so years deep with me. And my house ain’t exactly littered with die cast and plastic toy spaceships from Middle Earth…
Anyway, this guy takes another view, and he ain’t wrong to do so:
Sep 032022
stochastic terrorism
[ stuh–kas-tik ter–uh-riz-uhm ]
noun
the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted: The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.
Examples:
Of course, this is not new. Violence has been occurring for several years, egged on by politicians and activists. Antifa and their culture-destroying depredations may not be in the news as much as they were a few years ago when they were the shock troops of the Left, but they’re still out there carrying out acts of violence upon the regular citizenry.
Portland street mob shoots at elderly driver, accidentally kills one of their own
Sep 032022
I watched the first two episodes of Amazon’s “The Rings Of Power.” Is it as bad as feared/expected? In a word: yup. Here’s the thing, though: it is so far from Tolkein that it can’t really even be considered a bad interpretation of Tolkein. It’s just a bad fantasy series. And there have been a lot of those.
Beyond the well publicized problems of stunt casting and weird ethnicity swaps, the thing that jumped out at me the most was just how badly interpreted the elves are. The elves of the books and reasonably so of the movies are freakin’ *unearthly.* They are shaped like humans, but they are unrealistically beautiful; the light of the moon and especially the stars seems to fall on them at all times. They are *above* mankind. They are a different order of being. But in Rings of Power? They’re just a random assortment of actors with pointy ears. Many of whom have not just short hair – rather than the long hair elves were well known for – but actual buzz cuts. They are the same height as the bog-standard humans they occasionally stand next to. They might be fantasy elves… but they’re sure as hell not Tolkein elves. Given the billion dollars Amazon spent on this, they can’t claim poverty when explaining why they skimped out on these factors, especially since they *did* go to the bother of showing a “Harfoot” (a Hobbit stand-in species that is short like Hobbits, has large Hobbit feet, but otherwise don’t seem to be very much like Hobbits, which is fine because Hobbits haven;t evolved yet by this time in Middle Earth history) next to someone who will probably turn out to be Gandalf or Saruman (though, again, the wizards are centuries away from showing up in Middle Earth).
The whole thing is a weird mix of high production values – in particular the renderings of environments such as elvish and dwarvish cities – and low-effort CW-level acting and especially writing. It is, essentially, quite forgettable in the sort of way that Star Trek Discovery is enraging. I’ll probably end up watching the other episodes at some point, but likely mostly as background noise. I won’t be hate watching the series like modern horrible Star Trek. I don’t know if it’s because RoP is so far off the mark, or if it’s because so many franchises have been so badly mauled lately that I’m just kinda burned out.
Sep 022022