What he did was technically illegal. Time for the jury to be reminded of the concept of “jury nullification.”
Hah. This is so good dude, I’m so glad to see the view from below. pic.twitter.com/XuMavivG4q
— Micah|Micycle 🎃 (@Micycle444) October 19, 2019
Protesting is fine. But when your form of protest is to block the streets like this, you are IMO illegally detaining random citizens… essentially, you’re kidnapping or hijacking them.
I found the comparison interesting. Consider first “In Maidjan” by the musical group Heilung, sung live in 2017.
Then consider “Wolf Totem” by the Mongolian group “The HU,” the video of which dates from 2018. The two songs seem to sound a lot alike.
And they’re both FRICKEN’ AWESOME. That there is man-music, baby.
And if anyone starts yapping on about “cultural appropriation” with Heilung’s use of throat-singing, take it up with The HU’s appropriation of western instruments and American biker gangs.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
Here are some things that I think *should* be of considerable interest. If you are indeed interested in making a bid, send it via email to: 
Buyer is responsible for postage, which for most of these can be Media Mail for low cost. Auction will end 48 hours after I put this post online. Items and photos after the break…
OK, the sale is over. Most items did *not* sell out, but I am now no longer in a position to package and mail stuff off. Consider this an archive post.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
For sale to the highest bidder… a lot of 1/40 scale (same as the vintage Topping display model) X-15’s, mostly X-5A-3 stretched delta-winged configurations. These are solid-cast resin models that I worked on a number of years ago. From left to right:
1: An incomplete model with the Marquardt SERJ airbreathing engine
2: An incomplete X-15A-3 with upward-swept wingtip fins
3: An incomplete X-15A-3, missing fins.
4 & 5: Completed, painted and decaled X-15A-3 models
6: A vintage Topping X-15 model.One of the horizontal stabilizers had broken off, and repairs were underway.
These are, again, incomplete (except for #4&5), but a decently skilled modeler could finish the job. What you see in the photos is what you get. Except the dust. I’ll blow that off. The level of dustiness might give an indication of how long these have been sitting abandoned. Buyer also pays postage by whatever means desired. If you’d like to bid, send an email to: Bidding ends 48 hours after this is posted. There won’t be any more of these, at least not from me: the molds are not only old, they are now in a landfill.
Well, there goes my stuff. Some of my very worst stuff in one truck, just about all of my very best in the other.
I am exhausted.
Continuing…
In 1985 Rockwell considered the possibility of a 150-ton payload reusable SSTO. Possible missions for it included lunar logistics, space based weaponry and solar power satellite launch. There were, however, no actual paid-for programs needing the capability enough to justify the development cost.
I vaguely recall seeing a diagram of this design somewhere, long ago. An article in “Spaceflight,” perhaps?
Pop quiz, hotshots: let’s say you’re a collector of aerospace history documentation. And for reasons that seem good at the time, you start stuffing it into boxes 15 by 12 by 10 inches, averaging thirty to forty pounds per box.
How many boxes before you say, “that’s a good collection,” how many till “whoa, that’s a lot,” and how many till “you have a problem?”
Not quite sure what you’d do with this.
Not something I can really see spending $200 on, but three cheers for capitalism. Capitalism: bring you stuff you don;t need, and giving you a world better than you could have imagined.
Read this and ponder the future of the English race.
What appears to have happened is a 19-year-old tried to be friendly with a 17-year-old girl, it was misinterpreted, she *massively* over-reacted, and now she’s trying to destroy him. Even if her description of what physically happened is accurate – he walked up to her twice and touched her arm and side for a few seconds – her description of basically going into long-term emotional meltdown over it seems like either she is mentally ill or the product of a system that has gone overboard to train girls to live in perpetual fear, to assume that every male they meet is a vile, violent monster, that the most innocent touch is simple pretext for kidnapping and assault and murder.
The guy seems to be painfully shy, perhaps Aspergery. He had to look up “how to make a friend” online. A longer article is HERE. I shudder to imagine how much trouble I would have gotten in had I grown up in such a dystopian legal system.
You want “incels?” This is how you get incels. Any boy going to that girls school would be well advised to avoid her like the plague, and could hardly be blamed if they decided that PlayStation and XBox were better uses of their time than dating. And some people wonder why there’s a declining birth rate in the West.