The absolute unconquerable ignorance of those who would rule over us is an evergreen source of dark amusement. Behold the 2014-vintage performance of one Kevin De Leon, politician extraordinaire.
An Oscar award for the cop in the background. Managed to act like he wasn’t in the presence of a world-class ass.
And let us not forget intellectual vacuum collapse Sheila Jackson Lee, who reminds us that an AR-15 weighs as much as ten boxes and fires 50 caliber bullets:
Oy.
This looks…. maaaaaybe good?
A ca. 1964 Boeing rendering of an HL-10-derived spaceplane in orbit. Numerous companies – Boeing, McDonnell, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. – contemplated the development of a logistics spaceplane based on the HL-10. The spaceplane itself would, rather like the X-20 Dyna Soar, have been minimally functional in space; most of the propulsion and power would have come from the attached adapter module. The conical adapter would have also carried the bulk of the vehicles payload to be delivered to orbit, and would be used to provide a de-orbit burn for the spaceplane. The adapter would therefore burn up on re-entry, leaving the lifting body to glide to a runway landing. The spaceplane itself would be crammed full of astronauts and the life support they’d need; there would generally be little capacity for anything else, certainly not payload going back downhill. This was fine, though, as there were few enough payloads other than humans that made sense to send *back* down the gravity well.
Huh. This got by me… Virgin doesn’t seem to be as media-savvy as SpaceX.
It’s a nice-looking launch. But what it looked like to me was less the launch of a space vehicle, but the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile: with the 747 reaching the end of its passenger carrying life, perhaps the USAF should buy a few thousand of them and modify them into missile carriers for a new generation of air-mobile, air-launched long range nuclear strike system. I’m sure the Harris administration will get right on that.
It’s well known that the incoming administration wants to ban standard capacity magazines for the Little People. But it seems they’re getting a jump on that by making sure that the National Guard is issued Zero Capacity Magazines:
Today, it was my honor to join @chefjoseandres and @WCKitchen to provide meals to our heroic National Guard troops who are keeping our Congressional community safe during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/aqJ1JEwumA
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 16, 2021
Of course, it may be that disarming the National Guard troops is due to the new administration not actually trusting the troops. Which should do wonders for morale and unit cohesion:
An interesting hypothetical near future:
A movie being released by a conservative outlet, telling a conservative message? Color me stunned that Our Betters hate what the public likes.
This kinda says it all:
Concrete collapse videos. Why? Why the frak not, that’s why.
Pro tip: concrete is heavy. Consider adding adequate support underneath. Alternatively: forget all that colonizer STEM stuff. Use “other ways of knowing.” I’m sure that’ll work just great.
I don’t know about embedding videos from “Nitter,” which I’d never heard of until about three minutes ago. But the video in the link below shows the “storming” of the Senate chamber by Buffalo guy and some others. Translation: it shows Buffalo Guy calmly strolling into the Senate chamber while being escorted by a cop who asks the few people already present if they wouldn’t mind leaving. Explain to me how this is dangerous, democracy-threatening criminality, rather than just “huh, the doors open, I wonder what’s in there.”
https://nitter.net/MarkDice/status/1350896490395275266#m
It doesn’t seem to be functional, but it does seem to have a web host. Baby steps, I suppose. What with Russia trying to stamp out its citizens use of SpaceX’s “Starlink” internet service – thus indicating a fear of not being able to control the internet behing a national firewall – I wonder if something like Starlink might be used by a nearly wholly independent form of the internet that is unthreatened by Big Tech. Of course, that would rely on *SpaceX* not becoming just as bad. Shrug.
