The Moskva was (*was*) the most important Russian naval vessel in the Black Sea, until it’s ammunition caught fire. Stories differ about *why* it caught fire… the Ukrainians claim to have struck the ship with missiles, the Russians claim… well, not much.
A day or so ago, the Moskva was going to be a giant threat to the Ukrainians. Now it’s apparently a burning hulk.
So someone shot up a subway in Brooklyn. Amazingly, nobody was killed, but a lot of people were injured. The shooter seems to have done this for political and/or racial reasons. This is *exactly* the sort of thing that the news media should be all over. Except… this story doesn’t slot into The Narrative. Expect it to quietly evaporate from the headlines. Don’t expect to see marches, protests, riots, burning, looting, murders over this story.
He’s a black nationalist and a fan of the Nation of Islam. He disliked Trump and white people.
Breaking: NYPD named Frank James as a person of interest in the #Brooklyn mass shooting. I looked into his social media. Like the Waukesha suspect & the Louisville BLM activist who allegedly tried to assassinate a mayoral candidate, he appeared to be a fan of black nationalism. pic.twitter.com/aUQZGakJfW
They stand RIGHT FREAKIN’ NEXT to a sizable rocket engine as its being tested. With no protective walls, armor or even helmets, gloves or safety glasses. What’s better; the propellants are freakin’ toxic (furfuryl alcohol and nitric acid). They have to flee the cloud of nitric oxides.
The company website has a “Team” page with names and photos of those involved, but no links to their qualifications. This comes across more as a technically aggressive art project than an engineering one. I can appreciate the desire to charge ahead, say damn the safety weenies… but go-fever can get ya killed in some pretty horrifying-yet-entertaining-for-everyone-else ways.
It was small, only a foot and a half in diameter or so. But it impacted the atmosphere over Papua new Guinea moving at about 130,000 miles per hour. Sporty! At that speed, one kilogram of rock – or ice, or iron, or whatever – has about 1,688,688,236 Joules of kinetic energy. one kilogram of TNT has 4,184,000 Joules of chemical explosive energy, so that rock is 403 times more powerful than a conventional bomb by mass.
A one kiloton explosion would be produced by 2,481 kilograms of impactor, or about a car and a half.
Checking out the “science” section on Google News brings up this headline:
*Science,* people. This is what “decolonized” science, stripped of “white supremacy” and “patriarchy” looks like: friggen’ horoscopes.
If you’re interested in astrology, you’re likely more than familiar with your Sun sign, which directly relates to your personality. Maybe your ‘scope-obsessed self is also well-versed in your Moon sign, which aligns with your emotions and moods.
Your Venus sign is something different altogether, although for most people, it can be the same sign as their Sun sign, or one of its neighboring signs, says Alice Alta, resident astrologer for the Futurio app. And as with any planetary sign, this one is determined by where Venus was in the sky at the time of your birth. To find your Venus sign, all you need is your birth date, time, and location to create your natal chart via an astrology app or website like CafeAstrology.com, explains Alta.
What is my Venus sign, and how does it impact me?
“Venus is the planet of love, beauty, harmony, money, material values,” she notes. So, Venus in the natal chart is responsible for the development of your sense of style and taste, determining your preferences in everything from clothes to romantic partners.
At its core, Venus is huge in helping to understand your personality and how you express yourself. It impacts how you show your desires, passions, and what’s important to you. It can also determine how you interact with others and the energy you give off in those interactions.
As a child of the 70s and 80’s, department stores and shopping malls means something different to me than they doubtless do to Millenials and Gen Z’ers. I am sufficiently non-stupid so as to not be shocked that things change… but still, there’s a sadness to watching things that used to be popular and successful turn into ghost towns. I guess it’s like seeing the last of 8-tracks or cathode ray tubes. Still: I’d trade the convenience of Amazon and the inexpensiveness of WalMart if it meant that the cultural madness of Twitter and TikTok and Facebook and Tumbler and the rest of them could also be swept away. Kids these days could do with actual socialization and the exercise that comes from mall-walking. Maybe there’d be less
“gender madness” if kids could actually see, in a social setting, their peers looking normal and reasonably healthy.
The list of functioning Sears stores here (2:02) is kinda astounding, given that there used to be 3,000 of the places. There are only 4 (*FOUR*) functioning K-Mart stores, soon to be three. 2022 will probably be the last year for both of these brands.
A collection of videos showing the current state of COVID-theater in China. So much of it is so over-the-top that it is clear that the purpose is not, as claimed, to control the spread of the ChiCom Flu, but to simply dominate the people… and to let the people know they’re being dominated. Power, pure and simple, naked and unlimited. This sort of thing is entirely possible in the west… if we allow it. Canada and Australia have been China-lite… how long until they – or the US – try to equal the Chinese government?
Think twice before clicking. Scenes of members of Team Humanity being tortured and killed on an industrial scale by humans. As much as many of use *hate* the little monsters responsible for the assault on Buddy The Cat… here’s an entire government that deserves that ire.
Remember the old wisdom about “if someone will do that to an animal, they’ll do that to a human?” Yeah, well… these are ChiComs. They’ve *already* done this to tens of millions of humans, so this is hardly surprising. But it’s still… hmmm.
Once again: humans at our worst are a Cosmic Horror to animals, especially those who rely on us.
Ben’s staff selects some of the craziest nutbars tiktok has to offer to make their boss react to. Someday, historians will look back on this time in amazement that society ever allowed people with this level of mental illness to have this outsized of an influence on culture, norms and laws.
By the way: if you are still concerned about the so-called “Don’t Say gay” bill, Ruined Leon is here to set you right. Unlike the people screaming the loudest about it, he actually goes to the bother of actually reading the thing: Spoiler warning: the crazies are lying. Shocker, I know.
And if you are confused or concerned that perhaps you too are a groomer, the Babylon Bee has kindly provided a simple test:
