The comments are the best part

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Apr 152022
 

So, who knew… apparently you can make a living doing nothing but taking commercial flights and posting videos about them on YouTube. Sometimes this means taking the most expensive and luxurious flights from one continent to another; sometimes it means taking a puddlejumper from one tiny airport to an even smaller one. And sometimes it means trying to take a Greyhound bus from LA to NYC. In February. If you aren’t from the US, maybe “road trip across the USA in February” sounds reasonable. If you’re hopelessly optimistic, perhaps “road trip on a bus” makes you think “what could go wrong?” So this British feller decides to give it a shot. It does not go to plan… but it still goes *way* better than it could’ve.

As the blog post says, though, the comments make it worthwhile:

  • “It can’t be that bad” … anyone who’s ever been on a greyhound started praying for you at that point
  • Also a round of applause for the bravery shown by choosing Taco Bell when you know you’ll be stuck on a bus for 4 days.
  • Riding a Greyhound for the bus for an hour will change your whole outlook on life. You will also meet people that you only heard about in folklore.
  • In my first four minutes on a greyhound bus, I knew that I needed to improve my station in life and wondered where I went wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 11:30 am

Moskva goes kerblam

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Apr 132022
 

Whoopsie:

Russian Navy Confirms Severe Damage to Black Sea Cruiser Moskva, Crew Abandoned Ship

The Moskva was (*was*) the most important Russian naval vessel in the Black Sea, until it’s ammunition caught fire. Stories differ about *why* it caught fire… the Ukrainians claim to have struck the ship with missiles, the Russians claim… well, not much.

A day or so ago, the Moskva was going to be a giant threat to the Ukrainians. Now it’s apparently a burning hulk.

A week ago:

Russia’s Most Powerful Warship In The Black Sea Is Operating In A Pattern

Yeah, maybe operating in a predictable pattern isn’t the best idea, especially when you’re in range of people you have pissed off.

 Posted by at 11:44 pm

Another mass shooting to sweep under the rug

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Apr 122022
 

So someone shot up a subway in Brooklyn. Amazingly, nobody was killed, but a lot of people were injured. The shooter seems to have done this for political and/or racial reasons. This is *exactly* the sort of thing that the news media should be all over. Except… this story doesn’t slot into The Narrative. Expect it to quietly evaporate from the headlines. Don’t expect to see marches, protests, riots, burning, looting, murders over this story.

Frank R. James, Brooklyn Person of Interest: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

He’s a black nationalist and a fan of the Nation of Islam. He disliked Trump and white people.

 Posted by at 11:03 pm

Hahaha… no. NOOOOOO. Nope.

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Apr 122022
 

There are certain things you don’t do. These folks seem to like to do them all.

Company that aims to race SpaceX to Mars plays with fire

They stand RIGHT FREAKIN’ NEXT to a sizable rocket engine as its being tested. With no protective walls, armor or even helmets, gloves or safety glasses. What’s better; the propellants are freakin’ toxic (furfuryl alcohol and nitric acid). They have to flee the cloud of nitric oxides.

The company website has a “Team” page with names and photos of those involved, but no links to their qualifications. This comes across more as a technically aggressive art project than an engineering one. I can appreciate the desire to charge ahead, say damn the safety weenies… but go-fever can get ya killed in some pretty horrifying-yet-entertaining-for-everyone-else ways.

Continue reading »

 Posted by at 2:21 am

Almost exactly eleven years later…

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Apr 122022
 

April 4, 2011, I posted a link to the YouTube video of Orbital’s “The Box” originally from 1996. Through random chance, today (April 12, 2022) I stumbled across another copy of the video, this one at twice the resolution, posted onto YouTube almost exactly one year ago (April 15, 2021). Huh. Well, the commentary I posted way back when still applies: this is an interesting video that shows an unsettling Tilda Swinton moving through a city at a *really* slow pace. The effect being “alienation” or some such.

I first saw this at a weird time in my life, back when MTV still tried to be about music, and it drilled itself directly into my brain where it’s sat ever since. If you haven’t seen it, give it a watch.

 Posted by at 1:20 am

This is modern “science”

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Apr 112022
 

Checking out the “science” section on Google News brings up this headline:

*Science,* people. This is what “decolonized” science, stripped of “white supremacy” and “patriarchy” looks like: friggen’ horoscopes.

If you’re interested in astrology, you’re likely more than familiar with your Sun sign, which directly relates to your personality. Maybe your ‘scope-obsessed self is also well-versed in your Moon sign, which aligns with your emotions and moods.

Your Venus sign is something different altogether, although for most people, it can be the same sign as their Sun sign, or one of its neighboring signs, says Alice Alta, resident astrologer for the Futurio app. And as with any planetary sign, this one is determined by where Venus was in the sky at the time of your birth. To find your Venus sign, all you need is your birth date, time, and location to create your natal chart via an astrology app or website like CafeAstrology.com, explains Alta.

What is my Venus sign, and how does it impact me?

“Venus is the planet of love, beauty, harmony, money, material values,” she notes. So, Venus in the natal chart is responsible for the development of your sense of style and taste, determining your preferences in everything from clothes to romantic partners.

At its core, Venus is huge in helping to understand your personality and how you express yourself. It impacts how you show your desires, passions, and what’s important to you. It can also determine how you interact with others and the energy you give off in those interactions.

Oh my ᚠᚪᛣᚳᛁᚾᚷ Gawd.

 Posted by at 3:49 pm

Dead Store Walking

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Apr 102022
 

As a child of the 70s and 80’s, department stores and shopping malls means something different to me than they doubtless do to Millenials and Gen Z’ers. I am sufficiently non-stupid so as to not be shocked that things change… but still, there’s a sadness to watching things that used to be popular and successful turn into ghost towns. I guess it’s like seeing the last of 8-tracks or cathode ray tubes. Still: I’d trade the convenience of Amazon and the inexpensiveness of WalMart if it meant that the cultural madness of Twitter and TikTok and Facebook and Tumbler and the rest of them could also be swept away. Kids these days could do with actual socialization and the exercise that comes from mall-walking. Maybe there’d be less
“gender madness” if kids could actually see, in a social setting, their peers looking normal and reasonably healthy.

The list of functioning Sears stores here (2:02) is kinda astounding, given that there used to be 3,000 of the places. There are only 4 (*FOUR*) functioning K-Mart stores, soon to be three. 2022 will probably be the last year for both of these brands.

Bonus:

 

 Posted by at 8:03 pm

It Can Happen Here

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Apr 102022
 

A collection of videos showing the current state of COVID-theater in China. So much of it is so over-the-top that it is clear that the purpose is not, as claimed, to control the spread of the ChiCom Flu, but to simply dominate the people… and to let the people know they’re being dominated. Power, pure and simple, naked and unlimited. This sort of thing is entirely possible in the west… if we allow it. Canada and Australia have been China-lite… how long until they – or the US – try to equal the Chinese government?

 Posted by at 7:45 pm

Here are some more reasons to hate, despise, oppose and hate communists

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Apr 102022
 

No joke about “disturbing video:”

Disturbing Video: China Is Taking Cats for Extermination Due to COVID — Dogs Too

Think twice before clicking. Scenes of members of Team Humanity being tortured and killed on an industrial scale by humans. As much as many of use *hate* the little monsters responsible for the assault on Buddy The Cat… here’s an entire government that deserves that ire.

Remember the old wisdom about “if someone will do that to an animal, they’ll do that to a human?” Yeah, well… these are ChiComs. They’ve *already* done this to tens of millions of humans, so this is hardly surprising. But it’s still… hmmm.

Once again: humans at our worst are a Cosmic Horror to animals, especially those who rely on us.

 Posted by at 2:31 am
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