Now THIS is comedy

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Oct 202022
 

So some European protestors – never mind what they’re protesting or why, because it hardly matters – decided that the thing to do was glue themselves to the floor of a VW dealership in Germany. The dealerships response? Close the doors, turn off the lights, turn off the furnace.

That’s a good response. I imagine their maintenance and cleaning staff will be able to clean up the inevitable yellow and brown stains and freshen the air. Keep the doors locked. Don’t let anyone in to provide the protestors food or drink or solvents; let them peel themselves up and seek their own medical attention.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 6:05 pm

Nukes already?

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Oct 202022
 

Seems unlikely, but…

Deranged Putin has ALREADY tried to detonate nuclear bomb but was scuppered in last-minute ‘sabotage’, insider claims

The article seems distinctly lean on actual details and evidence. Claim is made that *two* attempts to test nuclear weapons – including an underwater test in the Barents Sea –  were aborted due to emergencies of some kind, actually caused by people somewhere in the chain realizing that the whole idea was nuts. How the quoted “expert” would know this is unclear.

I can see Putin deciding to set off nukes as a show of force. I can see his own people sabotaging the effort, because they don’t want their families to be evaporated. But while such events are plausible, I’d need evidence before I believed they actually happened. And the thing is, incidents like this will almost certainly never have adequate evidence… until an actual bomb actually goes off.

In any event, I’m glad that some time back I got me a functional radiation detector.

 Posted by at 12:59 pm

This didn’t age well

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Oct 182022
 

From the long irrelevant ACLU, dated June 11, 2020:

Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer

So how’s that going? Let’s check in with CNN (September 25, 2022):

Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime

Shocking. Who, I ask you, who could have possibly foreseen that defunding, abusing, disparaging the police would embolden the criminals?

 Posted by at 8:52 pm

this seems a little unwise

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Oct 182022
 

BU researchers create hybrid COVID virus, causing friction with the government

The “new” version is deadlier (at least to mice). Now, I can see value in such work… create a nasty variant so you can *cure* or create a vaccine against said nasty variant before it pops up naturally or is created and weaponized by an antagonistic nation. Still: you might wanna kinda be careful about that sort of thing. If for no other reason than it makes for bad PR. Numerous news stories point out that this hybrid killed 80% of the mice infected with it. That’s bad. Fewer news stories point out that the original natural virus killed 100% of the mice infected with it. So it’s the kind of story that can be turned scary by dropping a bit of context. And science stories *always* lose context, because journalists seem to be a rather dim bunch, resistant to understanding the subjects they report on. So if you are a scientist working on something as touchy as this… maybe take a moment to reflect “Is this the sort of thing I should be doing, and if so, maybe I should have a really clear layman-level explanation ready to go.”

 

 Posted by at 12:20 am

Russia lost another SU-34

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Oct 182022
 

Russian losses are expanding beyond Ukraine…

13 dead as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building near Ukraine border

Russian news agencies have reported that at least 13 people died when a warplane crashed on Monday into a residential area in the Russian port city of Yeysk after suffering engine failure.

Gotta admit, this is a hell  of a shot (I assume it’s from some sort of security camera):

That pilot who saved himself and doomed an apartment building has some splainin’ to do.

The Russians have received 140 SU-34s, and have apparently lost 14 of them so far in the war. Maybe they shouldn’t go tossing them all willy-nilly into apartment blocks.

 Posted by at 12:08 am

California seems nice

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Oct 162022
 

Or maybe not…

@quarantinedboredom1

#homeless #homelesspeople #oaklandcalifornia #oakland #encampment #living #alfresco #alfrescodining #debris #burned

♬ original sound – Jeffrey Long

This is the sort of problem that could be fairly easily fixed. Reinstate loony bins, lock up criminals, deport illegals, enforce the border, and  cities will become far safer, cleaner, healthier places to live and work. They fact that those in power are *not* fixing this indicates that this is what they want.

Who benefits from tearing down civilization and spreading chaos and misery?

 Posted by at 11:05 pm

Well that’s gotta hurt

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Oct 162022
 

So “Halloween Ends” opened this weekend. On a budget of $20 million, it has made an estimated $41.25 million domestically in the opening weekend, pushing itself to profitability in a handful of days.

The low budget –  $17 million – horror movie “Smile” has, in just a bit over two weeks, made $71.2 million, making it a rampaging success.

That’s nice. How is this newsworthy? Compare that performance to “The Woman King.” On a budget of $50 million, after a month it has made $59.7 million domestically. D’oh.

It seems the strategies of glorifying the actual villains while accusing the potential customers of being bad people didn’t work so great.

Snerk.

One of these days Hollywood types *might* figure out that hating the audience is not a good plan. In the mean time… keep hemorrhaging dollars, dorks.

 Posted by at 5:34 pm

This article is missing a few important details

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Oct 152022
 

From the BBC:

Overcrowding: School doesn’t understand why I fall asleep in class

The argument is made that a 16-year-old falls asleep in class because his house is too small and is over-crowded, and that his family has been unable to find a bigger one. But… nowhere in the story does it say that the family is trying to *buy* a bigger house. All references are to trading houses, or asking to be *given* a house. A point is made that new houses are constantly being built, but the question is raised as to who is getting them. The question goes unanswered. Further, the family doesn’t immediately seem to actually be British, though the children were born there… born into a family that is in a small house with no apparent means of buying a larger one.

Left unsaid and unanswered: Britain is being flooded with foreign immigrants who seem to *immediately* get free houses, but who don’t actually seem to contribute to the economy, certainly not to the level of being able to afford said house. So Britain has a housing crisis… not just a lack of houses, but people seem to think they are *owed* a house, and one to their liking, simply because they showed up. These people then go on to create yet more kids who are effectively supported not by the family but by the tax payers.

I’m sure this seems like a good idea to *somebody.*

 Posted by at 7:42 am
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