This kitten is a symbol for us all.
Oct 092021
Oct 092021
If I’m reading this correctly, morons in Britain are blocking public roads and demanding that the government spent untold sums of taxpayer money to insulate houses.
Jackholes who think that the best way to protest is to block roads should be hauled off to the hoosegow… or simply declared outlaw, meaning that motorists could just motor right on through them. These sort of people are too stupid to be allowed to breed and contaminate the already screwed up gene pool.
Alternate approach:
Ugh.
Oct 082021
California students will have to take ethnic studies to get a diploma
The state’s ethnic studies framework, approved in March, promotes “a social consciousness” and will address “institutionalized systems of advantage” and forms of bigotry including anti-Blackness, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
That sounds *spectacular.*
Oct 082021
Remember a few years ago when a student from Covington High was set upon by the media, the political class, celebrities, activists and so on due to libelous claims that he was a racist mocking a “native American Elder?” Remember how that initial fraudulent narrative was all over the national news for a few days until more video came out to prove that the “elder” was the actual aggressor and that the kid did nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong?
Well, Covington High and its students and their interactions with elders is back in the news. But it’s not the same Covington High. And there is actual racial violence, with actual injuries, involved. Let’s see if the national news media covers *this* story with the enthusiasm they covered the earlier Covington story:
Additional suspects arrested in Covington High Tik-Tok teacher attack
A wheelchair-bound 64-year-old teacher was injured in an attack after the bell rang…
Covington High School, LA: Student punches 64 year old teacher to the ground in unprompted attackpic.twitter.com/QOc0KELmUg
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2021
Here is the smirking face of *this* Covington student:
How long until she gets a statue?
Oct 072021
US submarine hits underwater object in South China Sea
The Seawolf class USS Connecticut hit *something* hard enough to cause a number of injuries among the crew. Article doesn’t say at what depth this occurred; could well have happened on the surface. And given that this happened in the South China Sea, it could well have been a Chinese naval vessel.
But there are always other possibilities.
Oct 062021
Exciting new developments in the field of pre-crime:
Accidental leak reveals US government has secretly hit Google with ‘keyword warrants’ to identify ANYONE searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers
Mostly it looks like if you do Google searches on things what go kerblam, the FBI might start taking an interest in you.
The original Forbes article on the subject focuses on a slightly more sensible – yet still creepy – use of the concept:
Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Sexual Assault Victim’s Name, Address And Telephone Number
There are, I suppose, a *few* good reasons why you’re want to look up information on a crime victim. One, you’re a journalist covering the story. Two, you’re the defendants lawyer. Three, you’re the victim and you want to know what’s out there about you. Four, you run a “fake hate crime” database and your story sounds fishy. But beyond that, valid reasons beyond generalized curiosity get kinda thin. Still, putting someone under surveillance for doing so seems… ahem, unwarranted. Unless that someone is an actual suspect, I suppose.
Oct 062021
Yeesh. I continue to successfully get rewards out to Patrons and subscribers in a timely fashion… but I also continue to fail to publicize the fact. Last day of September, the rewards for that month were sent out. The September 2021 rewards included:
Diagram: “Early X-3 cutaway:” A large format cutaway illustration of a not-quite-final Douglas X-3 configuration
CAD Diagram: the command module of the Solem “Medusa” nuclear pulse propelled spacecraft
Document: a giant 1100+ page “Data Sheets for Ordnance Type Materiel,”1962 US Army “catalog”of pretty much all their stuff. Includes an illustration (often, though not always, including a basic diagram) and data for everything from trucks to tanks to bayonets to pistols to rockets.
Patrons should have received a notification message through Patreon linking to the rewards; subscribers should have received a notification from Dropbox linking to the rewards. If you did not, let me know.
If this sort of thing is of interest, sign up either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Oct 042021
Democrats are eating their own for not being sufficiently far-leftist. Here some whackaloons follow Senator Sinema into a crapper to yell at her. Imagine, gentle reader, if these were right wingers doing *exactly* the same thing to Bubbles Cortez: the wokies would be screaming in fake horror and feigned outrage.
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You can hear them snickering at the end. They are so proud of themselves pic.twitter.com/lZjMqFeAjJ— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 3, 2021
Dear Senator Sinema: the Republicans would probably take you on board.
Oct 042021
Yeah… no.
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Oct 032021
Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution.
I’m glad these geniuses are here to tell us these things.
Last year, the US’s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent. So far in 2021, murders are up nearly 10 percent in major cities. The 2020 increase alone is the largest percentage increase ever recorded in America — and a reversal from overall declines in murder rates since the 1990s.’
Gosh I wonder why that might be.
There remains one solution to the problem of violent crime that would doubtless be highly effective:
Small issue being that stargates to penal colonies on distant worlds remain firmly fictional. But if distant worlds are unattainable, it certainly seems that a penal colony in, say, Nunavut should be achievable.