“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.
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.
testing…
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.
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
… 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?
Not *this* blog, but the APR blog:
https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/
I’ve been getting bombarded with messages from the security programs all day telling me that there is an ongoing attack on the blog, such as:
June 24, 2022 11:56pm 194.xxx (Russian Federation) Blocked for SQL Injection in User-Agent String
I’m fuzzy on what exactly that means exactly, and the software says it’s blocking it, but all the attacks seem to be coming from Russia. So if the APR blog goes weird, or vanishes… this is why.
Monkeypox didn’t quite work out. Maybe polio will finally allow the British government to start welding British people into their homes so they won’t see the millions of third-worlders that the British government will bring in…
In seriousness, this is unlikely to amount to anything. Polio isn’t particularly fatal, and finding polio in the sewer is unlikely to mean many infections except for those darn kids who swim in it for fun. But any excuse to cause a panic that can be engineered to increase government power will be taken.
Halfway through the crowdfunding effort, Tomy only has 14.9% of the backers needed. Unless there’s a big surge, I can’t see how this is going to happen. And it’s a damned shame, it looks like a nifty thing. So if you have an extra $600, give it some consideration. If you have an extra $600 but don’t want a big die-cast Enterprise, buy it anyway and send it to me. I’ll give it a good home. Or you could just send me $600 directly. I’d be fine with that too.
They’ve recently updated the description to include three shuttlecraft as well:
I think they just butted up against some historic bad luck. An expensive luxury item in the middle of Bidenomics? That’s just tragic; they’ve likely been at work on this project for a few years, and the timing just plain sucked. I just hope that if this doesn’t go through they don’t throw it all away, but store what they need to safely and try again when things are better. Not sure when that’ll be… maybe year two or three of the DeSantis administration?
“‘The Three Little Pigs’ story was read round-robin style in a grade 11 classroom, which demonstrated limited student access in this class to grade-level text,” according to the department’s Office of Accountability. … At Brooklyn’s Boys and Girls High School, more than one-third of all classes were being disrupted by students’ chatter …
Sure, society needs people who are no more skilled than required to dig a ditch. But the problem is, these kids are doubtless also being taught that they are special snowflakes and that anything less than a lavish lifestyle of hookers and blow is a sign that The Other People are oppressing them. So these “students” will not only leave school utterly incapable of performing any but the most basic tasks… they’ll be unwilling to do them. One might wonder why this sort of thing would be promoted. Well… one might wonder that if one had not been paying attention. Why would this sort of thing be promoted?
1) These kids will be useless, sure. But they’ll still be allowed to vote. And who will they probably vote for? The people promising to make their lives easier without effort on their part.
2) They will consume resources without contributing. Thus they will be a net drain, requiring someone to fill in for them. And who better to fill in for them but similarly low-skill, but less offended foreign workers of dubious legality? And who will they and their offspring and their enablers probably vote for? Why, most likely those politicians who promise to not deport them.
Maybe Congress should spare a moment from the January 6 show trials to look into the matter of politicians whoa re *really* working to damage the United States. It might be worth seeing who’s getting paid or influenced by, say, the ChiComs. The Rosenbergs sizzled for doing less damage to the US.