The more challenging you try to appear, the more people will challenge you. Armored trains these days seem like the sort of thing that everyone with a surface-to-surface missile, an air-to-surface missile, a drone, a handful of plastic explosive or a cup full of thermite will try their luck at.
There was a time when vigilantes were more legend than fact, because the police and justice system did the job that needed doing. I guess those times are over. We entered a period of lawlessness… and I suspect that we’ll be seeing more stories like this, where vigilantes start doing the job that cops and security guards aren’t allowed to anymore.
Of course, some places want to pretend that crime *isn’t* a problem. That if you cover it up, people will forget about it. Let’s see how well *that* works…
When Twitter banned the New York Post for accurately reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story, the progressive media said nothing. When twitter suspended some “journalists” for doxxing Elon Musk… suddenly, that’s a threat to democracy. The world will fall into ruin unless journalists are allowed to violate the established Twitter terms of service.
President Trump was banned from Twitter while Jihadi/Islamist terrorists were allowed to remain and continue to spit hate and threats. So, no, some journalists finding that the rules apply to them too is not a “precede
The cyanotype setup in Utah relied on direct sunlight to process the image. But the sun is difficult to find here in Illinois in December, so I decided to give technology a try. When I originally set up in 2014, this wasn’t really an option, but Amazon now has 100 watt LED UV light bars for only $30, so I decided to try one. The result is shown below:
Clearly, it looks terrible. But I judged it to be a rampaging success: this was achieved via the crude process of simply waving it over the paper and the transparency by hand for five minutes. My goal was not a pristine cyanotype, but proof that the UV actually worked to process the image. Where it shined adequately brightly for long enough, it really did the job. So I went ahead and ordered two more. I will build a framework to hold them over the print, boxed in with reflectors. Some experimentation to dial everything in, but at this point I’m quite optimistic that a technological solution will make this work reliably repeatably.
On the other hand: the UV light bars are Chinese. So… explosions? Sudden random changes in wavelength? Burst into flames? Microphones directly to the MSS? Who knows.
Bonus wisdom: if you put a rectangular piece of paper on the floor, a cat *will* occupy it.
And here we are:
OMG MY SIDES pic.twitter.com/4ZhODAdFgI
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) December 14, 2022
There are of course comments by people who don’t understand the concept of “context:”
Baby it’s Cold Outside is about a woman in the 40s, who was worried about the neighbors gossiping about her being unchaperoned with her boyfriend after a certain hour, and deciding not to worry about what they think, you perverted l0ser.
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) December 14, 2022
Well, this can’t be good:
Problem with Soyuz MS-22 on the ISS right now! pic.twitter.com/V4Ymvnn2D1
— Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) December 15, 2022
Good thing the US has it’s own ride now. SpaceX, stand by with a couple Dragons…
And so Adam Savage goes to the Royal Society In England and gets to look at not only a first edition of Newton’s “Principia,” but the actual *manuscript.* And both he and the archivist handle them with their bare hands.
Shudder.
There are books that *I* own that I hesitate to actually touch without cotton archival gloves. But the Principia? Dude, I wouldn’t touch that unless I was fully sealed. I’d be deathly afraid of not just touching it, not just sneezing on it, but simply *breathing* on it.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts caught fire this morning…
Huh. Together with that shopping mall, makes ya go “hmmm.”
AI: OK.
Ruh-roh.
Wisdom:
A visualization of how high a human could jump on other worlds, due to the differences in local gravity. Not included is the difficulty in jumping while wearing a space suit…
And similar:
