The modelling is nearly complete. Unfortunately, the fully assembled version of the CAD model is so complex that none of my computers would even attempt to render or shade it; all I seem to be able to get are wireframe images. That’s what I get for being poor, I suppose. The shuttles are themselves each as complex as many of the CAD models I’ve made.
Shocking video shows a man hurling a firebomb into a Brooklyn deli on Saturday. He tries to throw a second firebomb but is interrupted. Joel Mangal was arrested over the attack. pic.twitter.com/aTDxLwoCm8
Experience the magic of public transportation where small women can be assaulted by large racists and everyone else just stands around and tries to look like they don’t see what’s going on:
Sometimes there are interesting historical comparisons that can be made. Not so much in that sometimes more or less the same thign happens twice, but that the same sort of event can have utterly different responses.
For example, look at how Wikipedia covers the death of George Floyd:
But an incident that was remarkably similar – a man was held down by cops until he died – is described thusly:
One of these guys was “murdered,” the other was “killed.” One resulted in riots and arson and book burning and statues being pulled down and history being memory holed not just in the US, but in the UK… the other has been effectively ignored. One of these resulted in millions of dollars in ransom payments from the city and the criminal charging of the cops involved; the other resulted in no charges, no payments.
One of these was black, the other white.
It should also be noted that the Wikipedia writeup about Timpa was reproduced in its totality above, only the references didn’t fit. That small bit of text is all there is to say on the subject. The Floyd Wikipedia page is something like 20 times longer.
The fact that Certain Groups can be killed by the police and it’s not big deal, while Other Groups being killed by the police in identical manners results in society being torn down tells you everything you need to know about who actually has privilege and power and where the *real* systemic racism lies.
I love cats. Bigger cats seem like they might be especially cool. But they also seem like they might take the murder-machine abilities of your average housecat and crank them up to 11. So this seems like tempting fate.
“Boop on the snoot” is not the phrase I would have immediately dreamed up to describe “getting shot in the face with 12 gauge 00 buckshot,” but, hey, it’s catchy. Like the guy’s face. See, it caught buckshot.
What I don’t get are all the civilians milling about when the cops pour in, shouting “everybody get down.” And they just stand there like pillocks.