I’ve had them quite recently, and fairly often:
@kristinadaniellez Tell me you had bad day without telling me you had a bad day #amazon #hopeheisok
Jun 012021
May 312021
The last few seconds here are *spectacular.*
May 312021
Interesting news out of Britain…
Short form: one Nicholas Brock has been sentenced to five years in prison for owning three books that are legal to own. There were apparently no indications that he had plans to commit criminal acts, but off to prison he goes.
Honestly, this one baffles me.
May 272021
Oy.
Graffiti Artists Defaced Soviet-Era Buran Space Shuttle At Russian Space Center
There are always people who want to trash things just because they can. Seriously: if the Air and Space Museum was left unguarded for ten minutes, do you think that the Wright Flyer would somehow escape being splashed with BLM, Antifa or gang crap? Or just simply burned to ashes?
The gene pool needs a good cleaning.
Buran was an ill-conceived notion. A bad copy of the US Space Shuttle, somehow made *worse:* it was a pointless reusable payload shroud, it didn’t even bring the main engines back. Still… leaving such things to be turned to garbage by collapsing buildings and garbage humans is just insane.
May 262021
Military recruitment commercials, on one hand, say nothing about the actual capabilities of the militaries in question. On the other hand, they give insight into the mindsets of those who approved those commercials. And thus, we have a bit of a problem in the US:
Wars are won in the will. Seems we don’t have the will. When Japan tried to take Hawaii from us, we opened up a can of nuclear whoopass on them, unleashing weapons the like of which had never been seen on this Earth. In a few years when China tries the same thing, will the US under President Harris just slink away and congratulate ourselves for our sensitivity?
Here’s a good rant
AARRRGH, art, Crazy, dumbassery, Forward!, Gah., Meh., youtube, ಠ_ಠ
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May 252021
Amazon spent half a billion dollars getting the right to and producing a Tolkein series. And as more information creeps out about it, the more it seems likely to be a mess. I’d *love* to see a fantastic series set in Numenor, with the designs of props, locations and character true to the source *and* coherent with the Peter Jackson films. I’d *love* to see a series set in Numenor that has intriguing characters and good plots. But it’s starting to look like what we’ll actually get is woke nonsense skewed towards raking in that sweet, sweet Chinese money. If that is indeed what happens… I hope that Amazon loses money on a vast unprecedented scale.
Just Some Guy rips some of the recent nonsense about trying to mangle what Tolkein clearly described.
May 232021
This was from 2017.
May 232021
I got about ten minutes into it before I remembered that I had other things to do. *Any* other things to do.
May 222021
If you want something warm and fluffy to cuddle with, a cat can be a good choice (depending, of course, on the cat). And if you want a cat, there is no substitute for an actual cat. So this… thing confuses me to no end.
You’re Supposed to Be Comforted by This Faceless Robotic Vibrating Cat, Not Horrified
Cats are not hard to come by. The world is full to overflowing with shelters and pounds with unwanted cats that can be had for a few bucks, or a donation, or for the asking. So… why an expensive robotic Martian flatcat/tribble hybrid?
May 222021
