Whoopsie:
Jun 282022
Jun 272022
The Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade has brought out the hateful and violent rhetoric of many on the Left in *spades.* Go peruse Libs of TikTok for a plethora of examples of death threats, advocations of assassinations, etc. Far too many to post here.
That said, there is one particular story that is instructive on several levels: a registered nurse claimed that she bases her medication prescriptions not on the needs of the patient, but on their race and politics. Good news/bad news: The bad is that there are such hateful people out there. The good is that they often publicly tout their badness. The double-plus bad is that they feel safe and comfortable doing so, because they know that since they are on the politically correct side, their malfeasance will often be ignored. They can get away with doing what they’re doing.
Doctor at @sarahbushnews says she prescribes medication based on her patients’ political affiliation and race pic.twitter.com/bri0O2i3zE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 26, 2022
She felt comfortable enough to say it publicly. How long has she been actually *doing* it?
Well, there is some double-plus good news:
— Sarah Bush Lincoln (@sarahbushnews) June 27, 2022
“Resigned.” Yeah, I kinda expect that she was pushed out the door. And I kinda expect that the hospital now has *all* of their lawyers working overtime, poring through every last record of every last patient this twit had anything to do with. Were you one of her patients? Did anything seem a little off? Were the meds she prescribed not quite right, or didn’t quite do the job? Yeah… lawsuits are coming.
Jun 272022
Too many crazy/evil/uncivilized/self-important privileged AHoles out there…
People like this need to be separated from society. if you have such ang4er issues AND impulse control issues… we don’t need you. You are a net negative and a drain on resources.
Jun 272022
While cleaning out my internet computer, the hard drive of which was just about full, I found a folder full of videos that I’d intended to send to YouTube and then promptly forgot about. So, here are two. Two which might kinda ruin the mood… they feature the late lamented Fingers and Raedthinn, both taken far too soon by crappy feline biology.
Jun 262022
“Violent clashes” last night between pro-abortion protestors and police. Where? Los Angeles. You know, California. A state which is about as likely to make abortion legal as it is to install a few terawatts of nuclear power in downtown San Francisco.
Jun 262022
So last night I went to bed after several hours of both of my blogs looking pretty badly screwed up by n SQL injection attack, and with tech support closed for the night (after having been 24/7 operations for the past twenty-something years… thanks, Covid!). Set my alarm to wake me up to have a doubtless hours-long phone call with tech support… and here we are, both blogs seem returned to normal. Huh.
Anyway, I don’t take *nearly* as many photos these days as I did when I lived in Utah. This place simply doesn’t compare on the natural beauty front. Still, every now and then there’s something that seems worth pointing the phone at, if not grabbing the actual camera.
Jun 262022
testing…
Jun 252022
Part of the back story to my Zaneverse stories set 500 years in the future is that the 21st century turned out to be the most nightmarish century in human history. The Pan Asian Wars wipe out about half the planetary population and trash the rest of the worlds biosphere via pollution and radiation and plagues. Subsequent to that is the European Diaspora as tens of millions of indigenous Europeans flee the continent as it transforms into a third world hellhole, dominated by the Caliphate, feeding into the resurgence of Iceland and the rise of the Texas Semi Autonomous Region. All this is far in the past of the main characters, but it helped establish the world they live in just as the colonization of the New World starting five hundred years ago established *our* world.
This was all supposed to be *decades* in the future, time enough for civilized society to get set up on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, habitats, leading to *some* portion of humanity surviving The Fall at the end of the world at the beginning of the 22nd century. I fear I was too optimistic.
Jun 242022
A Russian surface to air missile recently failed rather spectacularly, turning around quickly in flight and seemingly tried to go home.
Additional angle pic.twitter.com/YYaGoGiH9M
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 24, 2022
This sort of thing is not terribly unusual. Here’s a Saudi Patriot missile taking a detour:
Extremely high velocities, perspectives and vast distances can be a hard thing to grasp… but this REALLY scarily puts the velocities of missiles and rockets into perspective! 😳🤯 this is a Saudi Patriot missile failure 😱 genuinely terrifying! (source unknown) pic.twitter.com/8ucrfkuGRh
— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) October 12, 2019
Jun 242022
… or is this pair of signs kinda contradictory?
The top sign says that there is two hour parking for the entire block from 7AM to 5 PM. But the bottom sign says that parking is only 15 minutes, from11AM to 10 PM. These two overlap from 11AM to 5PM. Which one has precedence during that time?