Must be nice to have FU money

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Jul 192021
 

Whackaloons have been going after “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling for a while. While she seems to have a reliably left-wing bent, the fact that she’s heretical on the fact that men and women are not interchangeable leads to a whole lot of hate headed her way. But she’s rich enough to not care at this point:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 12:06 pm

I need more context

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Jul 142021
 

One of those videos that doesn;t tell you when, where, who, anything. Looks like a traffic stop; a guy is being arrested and decides that his best approach is to run into traffic. Discovers some little-known aspects of physics in the process, and *seems* little the worse for wear afterwards.

I feel bad for the car driver, though.

If anyone can point to further details on this, I’d appreciate it.

 Posted by at 12:35 pm

Boot to the head

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Jul 102021
 

In this case, a punch. And seemingly a well deserved one: a whackadoodle was being arrested for acting like a violent jackass in a WalMart and decided that the way to avoid a “resisting arrest” charge was to *bite* the officer… who then clocked her upside the head and seeming knocked some calm into her. So, of course, the outrage ensues.

DARPA *Really* needs to get on the ball and develop that “phaser with a wide-angle stun setting.”

 

 Posted by at 11:39 pm

The Ford Nucleon was ridiculously *small*

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Jul 102021
 

One of the more imaginative and incredibly unlikely concept cars was the Ford Nucleon, a 1950’s idea for a nuclear powered car. Apparently this was pretty much a complete art and sales project, without much actual engineering; it was based on the notion that not only could nuclear reactors be scaled down small enough to fit in a car, they could be made not only wreck-tolerant, but that lightweight and virtually magical radiation shielding would be invented that would allow said reactor to hum away at full power mere feet from paying customers without roasting them or giving them explosive ass cancer. It was, let’s face it, wholly ridiculous… and entirely awesome.

Photos of models of the Nucleon have been available since the 1950’s, but diagrams have been lacking. An article posted online a few days ago included a few specifications for the proposed vehicle, finally nailing down some of the dimensions. And for reasons that seemed good to me (and which are probably obvious), I slapped together a quick side view. I think my side view is *reasonably* accurate based on numerous photos of the scale model Ford built and the dimensions given. What I’m not certain about is whether *Ford* truly understood their vehicle.

Here’s the side view using the 200-inch (16.7 ft) length specified by Ford, accompanied by two normal-sized humans:

The driver doesn’t even come *close* to fitting. So I scaled the Nucleon up until it seemed to look right, with the end result being that the car is now about 26 feet long:

That’s by no means a small vehicle… but then, it’s nuclear. Scaling it up by a factor of about 1.55 makes the cab big enough to fit actual full-size humans. But scaling it up that much makes the 77.4″ width (6.45 ft) into 120 inches, or ten feet. Good luck squeezing *that* onto the road; the Hummer H1, known as an uncomfortably wide vehicle, is a mere 87 inches wide.

Does anyone have any information to contradict and correct the Ford specifications? Or is it just another case of the art department kinda ignoring reality?

 Posted by at 4:28 pm

Yeah, maybe not the best look

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Jul 102021
 

“We’re coming for your children.”

“A Message From the Gay Community” Performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus

Beyond the incredibly tone-deaf messaging here, what’s most disconcerting is the soulless gaze of the lead singer.

Maybe not *directly* linked, but… hmmm.

San Francisco Residents Consider Relocating As Crime Worsens, Quality Of Life In A Decline

The poll was released by the SF Chamber of Commerce and based on feedback from more than 500 San Francisco residents who are registered to vote.

It found that more than 40 percent say they plan to move out of the city in the next few years.

Having nearly half your population deciding to leave is also not a good look. And if that 40% *does* leave, taking their property taxes with them, one wonders what San Francisco would look like *then.* Seems like that choir would be better advised to stop singing about grooming children and start forming defensive vigilance committees; San Fran going whole hog on falling into third world hellhole status like Detroit or Mosul would seem to make life a little uncomfortable for such as those in the choir.  If that exodus does happen, it’ll likely be a self-reinforcing spiral; as people leave the place will get worse; as the place gets worse, more will choose to leave.

With China and Russia getting aggressive, pandemics becoming a Real Thing, the economy going shaky, the administration wanting to lock up millions of law-abiding citizens, gas and food prices looking like they might explode… we could be standing on the edge of an abyss. An EMP attack or a Carrington Event would easily push us over. And while I’m confident that the United States would, barring a truly awful pandemic or a massive nuclear strike, be able to pick itself back up, it could be a decade of crap. And in that decade, a lot of things will disappear. Not just civil society, but most drug manufacture and distribution. Lots of diabetics will be in serious trouble. But you know who else will be in trouble? Everyone who has come to think of HIV/AIDS as no big deal. Everyone who think those “prep” drugs are a good replacement for common sense.

 

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