This does not seem survivable.
Inquiry ordered in Hong Kong after giant screen crashes down onto stage at Mirror concert, injuring 2 dancers; remaining shows cancelled
Oh yeah. Lawsuits incomin’.
Jul 292022
Jul 282022
Dead spiders reanimated as creepy ‘necrobots’
Taking a dead spider’s lifeless body and reanimating it as a robot is an idea that would be the stuff of nightmares for most people. But scientists aren’t most people. Recently, a team of researchers turned the corpses of wolf spiders into arcade-style claw machines that could pick up and move a variety of objects — including other dead wolf spiders.
Because it’s creepy as hell, I moved the gifs of this scientific abomination below the break…
Jul 272022
The one where Brandon Herrera tries to replicate the home-made piece of junk firearm that was used to assassinate Shinzo Abe. The result works, but would likely be fatal to the shooter. This indicates that the assassin either somehow found a way to test and perfect his design (which seems unlikely in Japan), or he thought it through better than Herrera from the get-go.
I bet this one ends up getting yeeted by YouTube, since it shows how a disarmed populace can arm itself.
UPDATE: Yeeted. One might consider it odd that an American company would ban videos that kinda-sorta a little bit show how to make things that are legal for Americans to make. Odd, that.
Jul 252022
Chicago police: Boy, 15, fatally stabbed on CTA Red Line train part of group trying to rob rider
This part, quoting Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan:
“At that point, the person who appears to be being robbed takes out a knife, stabs that person with the gun. When that person is leaving, they placed the gun somewhere and one of the other individuals in the group that was with that individual picks up that apparent weapon.”
English teachers across the land slap their foreheads. Darwin, on the other hand, nods in satisfaction, being *reasonably* sure that the 15-year-old future murderer probably has not yet reproduced.
The rest of the article goes on to describe what a dystopian nightmare public transit is. No thank you.
Jul 252022
Which I imagine was the point of the outing.
Jul 252022
Honestly, there could be tears.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry, expensive cars, gold, diamonds… and no security? Yeah, that’s thinkin’. I have to wonder if “insurance fraud” might be involved.
Not my religion, but I vaguely recall something about this “God” feller not being all that into bling. Of course, Jesus counseled against making a show out of prayer, so…
This was hardly a unique occurrence, though. Robbing preachers mid-preach seems a popular enough hobby for some.
Would you just stand there and allow someone to punch your priest in the back of the head ??? Start a safety team. @TaylorRMarshall @1armsteve @rtf_media pic.twitter.com/KGZgTqC2Ng
— Joey Olivo (@OlivoJoey) July 10, 2022
Jul 242022
A few days ago, the House debated their latest gun grab. Starting at about 2:14:22, an exchange is held that lays plain the fact that this bill is monumentally unConstitutional, with Jerry Nadler *proudly* proclaiming that it would ban weapons “in common use.” The relevant part goes on for about five minutes, at which time the Democrats pivot to whining about the border rather than tackling the fact that they are doing something that they *know* is illegal.
Suggestion 1: If you are a lawmaker, don’t make laws that you know are unConstitutional.
Suggestion 2: Don’t admit it this openly.
Bonus round: Democrats lie outright and claim that a stabilizing brace is a bump stock, and are willing to die on that hill.
Jul 242022
Dr. Van Joan, director of Diversity Inclusion and Equity for the Alphabet Mafia, has an amazing offer for you. @unclejimmyblaze pic.twitter.com/GuAthZCbVL
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) December 7, 2021
Obviously this is satire. The problem is, the obviousness isn’t as obvious as it aught to be. It’s about one millisecond off from being full-on sincerity.
Jul 242022
I don’t remember this sort of impromptu street theater when I was last at Disney World in the late 1970’s. I have to admit to not being a slavish follower of Disney films; I haven’t seen “The Little Mermaid” or “Frozen” or a bunch of others, so I can’t place what movie this scene is replicating.
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I’m not a fan of “theme parks.” My memories of them are filled with heat and humidity and waiting in really long lines in the burning sun. So I have to wonder: how far would Disney have to jack up their prices before attendance dropped in half? If the ticket prices were twice as high and you got half as many people, the economics for Disney – at least on the tickets, not so much on concessions and toys and junk – would work, and the attendees would be much happier. If it was three times as high? It would be a no-brainer for Disney. Maybe do one day a week as a special “low density day” to test the waters. How expensive would the tickets have to be to drop attendance by 90%?
Jul 242022
US records first two CHILD monkeypox cases: California toddler and an infant in D.C. were likely infected by ‘household contacts’ and both had contact with gay or bisexual men, CDC chief says
This, unlike Covid or Ebola, is a disease you have to work at to get. It could be *easily* stopped by simply exercising some self restraint. The danger is that the lack of self control will not only allow it to spread to other people similarly devoid of the willingness to behave like rational adults, but they will spread it to the uninvolved, as was the case with these children. And worse, by allowing the disease to spread far, FAR further than it should, it is given the opportunity to mutate into a very different form: airborne, perhaps, or far deadlier. Or both. Remember smallpox pandemics? Because I sure don’t. It was eradicated when I was a little kid. But I may live to see it come roaring back… not because this sort of thing “just happens” from time to time, but because entitled selfish jackwads couldn’t keep it in their pants for a few weeks.
For those who might find the title of this post “offensive:” imagine what the general populace will think – and what they will do – if unwise and easily controlled behavior leads monkeypox to mutate into a form that attacks the broader society. I’m offended at the notion of kids being given sexually transmitted diseases.
UPDATE: For frak’s sake, this is *exactly* what I’m talking about:
‘I literally screamed out loud in pain’: my two weeks of monkeypox hell
Attend:
When New York Pride festivities kicked off on 24 June, I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men …
I had sex with several guys over the weekend.
Wow. What. A. Hero.
“I know that Fire Hot, but I poured gasoline on myself a lit a match anyway. I was shocked at how poor the American health care system is! It let me get burned!!!”
He describes where he first got the painful sores. I’ll give you two guesses. He then goes on to complain about the clinics, about the physicians, about the epidemic people and the government. Guess who he *doesn’t* blame.
If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it.
I was isolated, lonely and frustrated with how unfair the situation was.
