Jun 292019
 

The so-called “Anti-Fascists” of Antifa once again demonstrate that they are named in ironic jest. Witness them display their hatred and racism via violence and theft. Seems like perhaps it’s time to federalize the Oregon National Guard and send them into Portland to clean the place out. Along with a few million illegal alien colonists, there are a bunch of treasonous, violent Antifa traitors in need of deportation.

Antifa Beats Up Andy Ngo

 

 Posted by at 9:50 pm
Jun 292019
 

Great googally-moogally is Bubbles Cortez the gift that keeps on giving. So recently photos have re-emerged showing her trying real hard to cry at a detention center for illegal colonizers; other photos quickly emerged showing that she was basically outside of a largely empty parking lot. And so the meming began…

Many more after the break.

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 Posted by at 6:29 pm
Jun 292019
 

In the video below, Dictor van Doomcock rants about Disney’s “Star Wars: Galaxys Edge” at Disneyland. What brings this on is a report that attendance at the attraction, and the park as a whole, is lower than projected by Disney, which apparently assumed massed hordes. I’ve got to take issue with DVD here, though. He (and a few other YouTubers I’ve seen) portray this as the attraction being deserted, but it could just be that the park is swarmed with visitors, rather than ultra-swarmed.

I will not be darkening “Galaxys Edge” doorstep. But then, it was never going to be otherwise. For one, I haven’t visited a theme park in something like 35 years, and have little enough interest in doing so again. Vast sums of money to spend hours standing in the sun waiting in a line with thousands of sweaty, smelly, unhappy tourists? Bleah. But the fact that “Galaxys Edge” isn’t *actually* “Star Wars?” No thanks.

I have no idea if GE fell below expectations due to fan backlash. I have no idea if this shortfall is the permanent state of things, or just a short-term blip. It could very well be that people who would happily attend are staying away simply because they all want to avoid the hordes of other fans they expect are attending. But from what I’ve seen, it just doesn’t seem all that interesting. The setting is a planet invented just for this. It’s a place with no actual Star Wars history. Its set in the lame Mary Sue Rey era and has no references to the characters that made Star Wars interesting… no Han, Luke, Leia, Vader. Apparently it is mostly a place to spend EVEN MORE money by buying trinkets and doodads. There’s a life-size Millenium Falcon, which is cool and all; there’s also apparently some sort of Falcon flight simulator, which has the potential of being really cool. But … get a load of this description of what the visitors get to do in the cockpit:

The left pilot controls the horizontal steering, and the right pilot controls the vertical steering (remember: up is down and down is up!) and the hyperdrive (the most fun part arguably!). The left gunner controls the upper turret (denoted by blue-colored lasers) and the right gunner, the lower quad gun. The engineers, like the gunners, have their own screens on the side, and similar to the gunners (who are always on “auto”) simply press a button repeatedly at the correct times, whether they’re shooting down enemy TIE Fighters or repairing ship damage. Occasionally, at key times, a secondary button may pop up (e.g. to fire a missile or grappling hook).

WAT.

That sounds like a barren source of amusement, especially if you are paired up not with your best buddy, but the random next person in line. Feh.

Never mind the politics involved, the fan backlash over how dreadful “Last Jedi” was, or  how wokeness is trashing the franchise, or how the SJW morons running Star Wars these days hate the actual fans. The attraction just doesn’t seem like much fun, never mind *thousands* of dollars worth of fun. I truly doubt that the attraction is “deserted,” but it would surprise me not at all if the overall response, rather than an unceasing invasion of mountains of fans waving wads of cash, is a collective “meh.”

 Posted by at 3:57 pm
Jun 292019
 

A fractal zoom to a factor of ten to the power of 2431. This is a bigger number than the number of anythings in the observable universe. I do not care to do the math on it, but I bet that’s a bigger number than the total volume of the universe expressed in cubic Planck units.

The description of the video includes “EPILEPSY WARNING,” and I can believe it. This has a severe star-gate/acid-flashback/CIA-mind-control-technique vibe to it. What the actual purpose of it is I can’t say, but it’s surprisingly hypnotic.

Oh, what the heck. Radius of the observable universe is ~4.4 × 10^26 meters. Planck length = 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. Thus the radius of the observable universe is 2.75 x 10^61 Planck lengths. Spherical volume = 4/3 *pi *r^3 = 8.71 x 10^184 cubic Planck lengths. That falls short by a rough factor of 10^2247. So… yeah. Kinda deep zoom.

 Posted by at 2:18 am
Jun 282019
 

A second – and last – batch of Eaglemoss Star Trek ships has gone up on eBay. I’m preparing a bunch of books, many of aerospace interest, that will be posted soon. I’d planned on having half a dozen or so of them ready to go tonight but… shrug.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/dynascott

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #139 Vaadwaur Assault Ship & magazine, new

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #103 Vidiian Warship & magazine, new, bagged

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #94 Suliban Cell Ship ship and magazine, new

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #96 Orion Scout Ship & magazine, new, still bagged

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #45 Malon Export Vessel Ship & magazine, new

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #134 Vulcan Survey Ship & magazine, new, bagged

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #41 Klingon Raptor ship & magazine, new, bagged

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #18 Bajoran Solar-Sailor ship & magazine, ne

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #51 Hirogen Warship & magazine, new, still bagged

Eaglemoss Star Trek Starship #49 ECS Fortunate ship and magazine, new

I made an attempt to add Earth-type humor to each of the listings.

 

 

 Posted by at 10:34 pm
Jun 282019
 

Dictionaries need occasional updating due to new words and phrases being added to the language, or due to existing words and phrases acquiring new uses. And so:

Accurate Dictionary

Among the many entries:

Anti-nuclear movement – One of the most successful Soviet active measures projects, which managed to advance Russian economic and geopolitical interests by convincing gullible western ignoramuses that the cleanest source of energy ever invented is bad.

Celibacy, clerical – The secret sauce that helped create the modern world and helped rationalism, humanism and democracy, as well as high median IQs to flourish in Europe by systematically removing the crazies, gullibles, schizophrenics, hysterics, lunatics, fanatics and morons from the gene pool for hundreds of years.

Communism1. The only thing in history actually worse than Hitler. 2. Fascism minus food.

Elon Musk – A time-travelling artificial intelligence installed in a barely convincing simulacrum of a human body. Tasked with returning this timeline to the correct trajectory, from which it strayed in the late 1960s.

Harassment (sexual) – Flirting attempts by ugly, short, fat or poor men.

Hate speech 1. Facts 2. Anything outside the communist memeplex. 3. (rarely) Hate speech.

Marginalized group – A group with preferential access to education and employment opportunities, benefitting from nonstop hagiographic media coverage and government programmes for its exclusive benefit, and legally exempt from all criticism, in contrast to Privileged groups, whose situation is the opposite. (See also Privilege)

Nordic model – A complex web of public and private institutions built on the rule of law, strong private property rights and free enterprise followed by modest and increasingly unpopular redistribution, with all Scandinavian countries except Norway ranking above the United States on the Index of Economic Freedom. This gets called “socialism” by American idiots on both the extreme left and right, who don’t know what socialism is, but who either totally love or hate capitalism, because they don’t know what that is, either. (See also Capitalism, Socialism)

Other ways of knowing – A colossal Motte and Bailey, in which the banal observation that science is subject to occassional human biases and cultural prejudices is used to justify rankest relativism, and placing indigenous musings about angry mountain spirits on equal footing with meteorology, astrology with astronomy, gender theory with biology.

Privilege1. Meritocracy, but with disapproving spin. 2. Apparently something coal miners have and tenured professors don’t.

Simulation hypothesis – Creationism for nerds. Likely, though.

Socialism1. The proposition that abuses of power will be solved by making opportunities to commit them much bigger. 2. The promotion of principal-agent problems and cronyism to the main organizing principle of society. 3. The proposition that the problem of collusion of economic and political power will be solved by making economic and political power identical. 4. A system for the maximisation of hierarchical privilege, institutional capture and elite unaccountability.

 

Also check out this Twitter:

SJW-English Dictionary

anti- . . . 2. supporting, being the embodiment of: anti-racism, anti-fascism, anti-sexism

ally: A person who has the irresistible urge to constantly prove their loyalty towards those above them in the intersectional hierarchy.

triggered:  A sudden, strong negative reaction to seeing, hearing or otherwise experiencing something upsetting, such as other people’s opinions, other people’s rights, or other people’s existence. See also: safe space, socialism.

 Posted by at 8:26 am