And here’s some more world-class stupid

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May 072021
 

The Crazy Years accelerate, thanks to the Communist Chinese and their Tik Tok insanity enabling platform:

I honestly don’t know if these people believe their ᛒᚪᛚᛚᛋᚻᛁᛏ or if they’re just having a laugh (I suspect a *lot* of the latter)… but you *know* that a lot of their viewers will buy into it.

Bonus old-man-yells-at-cloud grumbles:

  1. Their votes count as much as yours.
  2. I remember the 70’s, kids. It was full of astrology, which is basically the same thing. That didn’t work either.
  3. You can bet that a lot of them will scream about “follow the science!!!11!1!!” on whatever topic comes to hand, be it global warming or flat earth or anti-nuclear policy or police brutality stats, and their idea about what “science” is will be as well thought out as their notions about “manifesting.”
  4. This is part of why I hate magic in fiction. The Jedi, the Wizarding World, the X-Men (especially Prof X)… all show that the ability to do magic leads both to laziness *and* just awful arrogance. But *these* jackholes display the arrogance but without the actual ability to do anything. Reliance upon lazy cheat codes is fine is you are just wasting time with a video game, but if you’re trying to actually live your life… naw, dude. A pity trump didn’t order 66 TikTok when he had the chance.

 

 

 Posted by at 3:04 pm

How about “never again?”

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May 052021
 

“Once again, people who live near George Floyd Square want to know when Minneapolis police will respond to their calls for help.”

Huh. Who could have seen that coming. A place that became a no-go zone for the police has turned into a lawless hellscape… and the police have no interest in going there. And why should they? I feel sorry for the people who lived there/owned property/businesses before all this happened. But there is a simple fix: BLM and it’s leaders have made *buckets* of money. The locals should sell out to BLM at a fair market price based on the pre-riot value. Then BLM can do with the property whatever they like, safe in the knowledge that the cops won’t get involved.

Even When Residents Call For Their Help, Minneapolis Police Won’t Go Near 38th & Chicago

 

 Posted by at 6:08 pm

You don’t want a .50 blowing up in your face

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May 042021
 

The Serbu SN-50 is an odd gun: a single-shot .50 BMG that you have to kinda disassemble to reload. It’s little more than an M2 machine gun barrel with some modifications; that makes it less expensive ($1259 rather than the seven-plus grand you can expect for semi-auto .50s), but is seems like a lot of bother to go to between each shot. Still, Serbu has a good reputation and the design seems pretty rugged. Yet… one of them underwent rapid unplanned disassembly right in the shooters face, doing him a lot of bad damage. The firearms side of YouTube has taken notice and lots of people are trying to figure it out.

Yow.

 

This guy focuses on the rather unique ammo, as well as unfortunate design features:

Same guy revisits the issue, and is rather more explicit in his opinion that the RN 50 is not a weapon to be fired:

Forgotten Weapons covers the topic of firearms exploding:

 

Mark Serbu made a comment:

Serbu may, depending on the results of the analysis of the rifle, be in a spot of trouble.

 Posted by at 8:18 pm

The Crazy Years

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May 042021
 

Go ahead and *try* to come up with rational explanations for these:

 

 

 

 Posted by at 2:34 pm

Franz Kafka: Oz Edition

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May 032021
 

‘I’m slowly dying’: Couple stuck in Texas for over a year can’t afford plane tickets home to Australia

Australia won’t let Australians return to Australia. I wonder where they stand on flotillas of refugees…

The whole story is, if the reporting is accurate, a bureaucratic farce of monumental proportions. I’m just shocked the US government wasn’t responsible.

 Posted by at 2:02 am

Notable!

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May 012021
 

Trying to rob a dude while he has a gasoline spray-gun IN HIS HAND might not be the best idea, as these Chilean criminals discovered:

And then there’s this attempt to take down an armored cash-transport in South Africa. I know, I know, who would have ever believed that there’d be violent crime in South Africa. Mind blown.

This is a story screaming out for a followup.

 Posted by at 10:29 pm

RIP Michael Collins

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Apr 282021
 

The third and sometimes forgotten astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon has passed away. He died of cancer, which will doubtless be used by anti-spaceflight panicmongers to rail against the dangers of deep space… but he was *90.*

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died at age 90

How many Apollo astronauts will get to witness the United States return to the moon?

 Posted by at 1:36 pm

Iran Is Right About Women

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Apr 252021
 

At least according to the UN.

At least 4 EU & Western democracies voted to elect Iran to UN women’s rights commission

The democracies who may have voted in the April 20, 2021 secret ballot for Iran’s misogynistic regime include Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

 Posted by at 3:28 pm
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