This is one of those cities that wants to tell everyone else who to live.
Nah.
Women destroy Manhattan business, leaving employees bloodied for $1.75
Just another day in NYC.pic.twitter.com/iyXILAsTs3
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) July 6, 2022
Jul 062022
Jul 062022
Two days after a looney bugman decided to shoot up an Independence Day parade, someone went and kerploded the Georgia Guidestones. If you don’t know what those were… well, read up on ’em and marvel at the weirdness.
The Georgia Guidestones demolished after explosion ‘destroyed’ portion, GBI says
(2/3) The videos show the explosion and a car leaving the scene shortly after the explosion. No one was injured. pic.twitter.com/8YNmEML9fW
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) July 6, 2022
The lesson to be drawn:
— UltraMAGA (@faiburns) July 6, 2022
And of course…
I can guarantee a woman was not responsible for this pic.twitter.com/X1PQJVtKSO
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) July 6, 2022
#Ukraine: A Russian soldier demonstrating the most unsafe method of destroying a Ukrainian 5P85S launcher from a S-300PS SAM system.
This launcher is likely a part of a S-300PS battery which was abandoned in #Kherson Oblast in the first days of war. pic.twitter.com/DRCprM5U6b— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 6, 2022
Not related apart from “what THE HELL is this noise?” The downfall of new York City continues apace as an old man (ah, crap, he’s younger’n *me*) is sent to jail because he defended himself against a violent assault:
Wild video shows NYC bodega worker allegedly stabbing man to death
Wild video shows NYC bodega worker allegedly stabbing man to death https://t.co/L9hT8MXIye pic.twitter.com/KjkxbhI2Ki
— New York Post (@nypost) July 5, 2022
New York City: not even once.
Jul 062022
Not lovin’ it! Fed-up Russians are served MOLDY burgers in their replacement McDonald’s restaurants after the chain left the country due to the invasion of Ukraine
Whoops.
The photos there are *not* appetizing. Of course it’s impossible to say that they are legit. All the photos there are closeups of moldy buns and insect legs in burgers and fries… none at least in that article show the food actually in context of being within the former McDonalds restaurants. The bug legs could be added in for effect; the burgers might be old. But it could all be honest reporting, too.
You wouldn’t think it would be *that* hard to maintain standards when you have the same facilities, presumably the same supply chain and presumably much the same staff. But I guess here we are.
Jul 052022
Courtesy Reddit:
My mom held a graduation party today and no one came.
Could easily be a hoax-post… perhaps the party was scheduled at 6PM, and this photo was taken at 5. Or it could be legit. In any event, for a lot of people, this sort of thing strikes a nerve:
The whole thread is *full* of this sort of thing…
My mom always said I couldn’t have bday parties because my bday is during winter break. I never questioned it. Then I realized that I had no friends and was bullied. My mom wasn’t going to humiliate me like that and wasn’t going to spend money on bullies. I had 30 kids in my class k-12, so bullying was very…targeted and specific.
…
When my youngest had her 7th birthday we invited her class to a party at the children’s museum. Lots of interactive things to do there…the place was like an indoor physics playground.
Nobody came. We were heartbroken. Sure, she would still have fun. But it was sad.
A couple visiting from England spotted what was happening. Their girl spent the whole time with ours, and they even bought her a birthday present from the gift shop.
I still think about that act of kindness.
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I’m near retirement age and never had a birthday party in my entire life. Family was dirt poor when I was a kid, as an adult it’s a day that’s just impossible for people to attend. Always wondered what it was like for y’all.
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It happens to adults too. I invited a bunch of “friends” and coworkers to a bar for my birthday. I sat there drinking alone for two hours before I walked home crying. Didn’t even get a happy birthday last year from anyone except my mom and aunt.
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We took COVID seriously and during the summer of 2020 our daughter turned 4. We didn’t have a party, but we invited all of our family to a zoom meeting to sing her happy birthday.
Not a single member of my family joined the call. I tried my best to keep my composure but I ended up crying in the bathroom after we cleaned up. They’re always on their phones and tablets anyway. There was no reason they couldn’t pop in for thirty seconds on a Saturday to sing happy birthday. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
…
Jul 052022
… screw up *big.*
An entire fireworks display went off all at once. Whoops indeed.
Jul 052022
So July 4 gave the media a new obsession… a mass shooting in Highland Park Illinois, just north of Chicago. Somewhat unusually, the shooter has been caught alive and uninjured, so this time they’ll at least be able to ask him why he did it. But I get the feeling that the answer will be something along the lines of God told him to do it by speaking through the neighbors dog. He’s got “crazy” written all over his face.
Inside the Sick Posts of July 4 Massacre ‘Person of Interest’
As yet there doesn’t seem to be a lot political there, just a bunch of random gibberish. He photographed himself wearing a Trump flag as a cape; he liked Biden posts. But the random gibberish comes off as someone whom the FBI and/or local cops should have been aware of. I suspect we’ll soon hear – quietly – that he was on the police radar, and that he was on psychiatric meds of some kind.
Interesting that just when the hoplophobes need to drum up fear of guns, the whackjobs come out of the woodwork to oblige.
This didn’t happen on the cruise I took
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Jul 022022
Long ago I took a cruise to Alaska. it was a reasonably classy affair; at the very least, no drunken brawls at 5AM that required the Coast Guard to show up and escort the ship. I guess that trip just wasn’t as culturally enriched as it could have been.
Seems to me incidents like could actually be useful: if you’re in international waters and people start acting like uncivilized savages… the Coast Guard shows up, takes said passengers, and promptly deports them to Liberia or London or some such third world hellhole. They’ll doubtless be happier there, and we’ll doubtless be happier here.
Jul 022022
There is a *lot* that can be said about this video, very little of it complimentary. A lot of it would suggest that stockholders should be POed.
"work". This is adult day care. No value is being exchanged here. https://t.co/yzBawNdd6C
— MEME THE LEFT (@memetheleft) July 2, 2022
Jul 012022
BREAKING: UPS cancelling gun dealers’ accounts, destroying packages in transit
Seems they’ve stopped doing business with a small firearm-parts dealer… and might have done so with Brownell’s as well.
I’ve fully expected the usual shipping firms will sooner or later decide to stop shipping ammunition.
This level of dumb irritates me
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Jul 012022
So some guy makes an animation of a cartoonish aircraft. Fine, great, wonderful. But it’s getting an unreasonable amount of press from mainstream media who think that this is actually a serious “design” rather than what it is… just a cartoon.
Inside the nuclear-powered ‘flying hotel’ that can stay airborne for months
Inside giant flying luxury hotel that can stay in the air for years
Concept Video Imagines a Giant Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel Airplane
Would You Take A Sky Cruise In A Nuclear Powered Flying Hotel?
It may or may not be good from a modeling and animation point of view, but it is clearly not something to be taken even remotely seriously from an engineering point of view. You might as well debate the merits of a spaceship that showed up in a “Far Side” comic.
This is modern “journalism.” The same trade that’s telling us that Trump “lunged” from the back of a limo and tried to yoink the steering wheel. Same people told us to believe without evidence “Russia collusion” and “Jan 6 was worse than 9-11.”