We’ve all seen those entertaining dashcam videos out of Russia showing all manner of bad driving. But when it comes to drunken Russians steering all over the place, it’s not restricted to ice-covered Moscow streets, but also extends to the Philippine Sea. Here the USS Chancelorville was steaming in a straight line, recovering a helicopter, when the Russian destroyer Udaloy decided to nearly sideswipe it. Sure seems like maybe the US Navy needs to talk to Q and have him install some of those wheel-hub extendable drillbit things from the DB-5 under the waterlines of American vessels.
So, viloence-advocate Carlos Maza of Vox gathered together an outrage mob that successfully bullied YouTube into creating another adpocalypse, wiping out monetization of whole channels. This was clearly aimed at his political opponents in the middle and on the right… but as with any fanatic, zealot or terrorist, collateral damage was perfectly acceptable. One of the channels that has been demonetized is one I hadn’t heard of till today, “Stardust Vibes.” As the name might suggest, it’s kinda Newagey, but it certainly seems inoffensive and quite possibly of interest to all kinds of people all across the political spectrum: mostly it’s hours and hours of nature sounds. Beaches, rain forests, streams, that sort of thing, with the occasional addition of some of that “Music From Some Guys In Space.” Honestly, the sort of thing a lot of people would’ve actually paid good money to get on CD-ROM not so long ago.
Quacking ducks are *clearly* tools of cis-het white supremacist patriarchy. Rain? Fascist.
Let this be a lesson, in case somehow you’d missed it before: the fanatics will happily burn it all down for a little bit of profit or a little bit of spite.
Earlier today Dropbox was unavailable for an hour or more, giving a “500” error code. It eventually came back up. And as I type this, the Disqus commenting system also seems to be down, giving a “503” error code. Both error codes indicate that there is an overload at the server. Neither are errors I’ve seen before. That they happen on the same day seems a little odd. Makes the conspiratorial side of my mind wonder if there might be some sort of wider denial of service attack going on…
Tim Pool reads through an NBC News piece from a few weeks ago that reports on “leaked” Russian documents that purport to show that something the Russians have been trying to do is foment racial discord in the US. Included in this is a supposed plan to take a number of black Americans to Africa for training in sabotage and then return them, with the goal of having them try to form a “Pan-African Nation” in the southern US. Tim Pool seems dubious of the idea. However, it seems not only reasonable, but to be expected. The Unites States, after all, has plans in place for how to fight a war not only against Russia, but against Canada and space aliens. Such plans are just good exercise in deviousness and strategy, though it’s generally not a good idea to let them slip out. And such an “asymmetrical” approach to undermining the US would, if the Russians could pull it off, work fantastically to hobble the US militarily and economically. if the US fell into civil war, or even peacefully split apart, the repercussions would be devastating. And if simply prodding the SJWs to foment racial discord can do this… it’d be a hell of a lot cheaper and *safer* than lobbing a thousand nukes at the US.
It would be interesting if these documents turn out to be not only legit, but proven to be part of official Russian government efforts. In that case, perhaps members of BLM and Antifa should be made to register as agents of a foreign power?
Because a left-winger who advocates for physical violence against conservatives complained about being made fun of, YouTube has demonetized a slew of non-leftist channels using vague handwavy appeals to mysterious rules. Basically, they bent the knee to a modern fascist, and created yet another argument for people to bail from YouTube and find an alternate platform that’s much more sane and stable.
There’s an election coming up in 2020. I suspect we’ll see a whole lot more demonitization and deplatforming of right wing/conservative content before then.
I’ve been working on the next issue of US Launch Vehicle Projects since seemingly forever. USLP #06 will be a special issue focusing on a single topic: launch vehicles for the Solar Power Satellite program. I think at least one more design will go in here before it’s done.
These people are *clearly* trolling the SJWs with their call for a “Straight pride Parade” in Boston. Additionally they’re calling for raising the “Straight Pride Flag” over city hall, a flag that “has represented our community for over 0.4 years.” Even the most casual examination of the website makes it pretty clear that this is a gag. But predictably the SJWs, having no sense of humor nor the ability to even process the concept, have lost their tiny little Twitter-addled minds.
The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Antifa (short for Anti-Fun) is not welcome because they oppose happiness and fun.
This looks…interesting. There seems to be a whole lot in here, and a lot of it doesn’t seem to make sense. It’s clearly set a good deal of time in the future, but a lot of the engineering looks like it’s from the 60’s. The “space station” at the beginning is either hanging at the end of a space elevator at the upper reaches of the atmosphere or it’s violating the laws of physics.
If you’re a 74 year old woman who gets injured hiking on an Arizona mountain in 100-degree heat, you might think twice before calling up this helicopter rescue crew. Yikes.
WILD HELICOPTER RESCUE: Firefighters say a 74-year-old woman had to be flown off of Piestewa Peak this morning after she suffered an injury while hiking.
The highest expression of British anti-Trump sentiment was popped by something like a pen. Britain should ban pens.
It is good and appropriate to damage your political opponents stuff? Nope. But so long as the lefties think it’s neato-keen to hurl things at *people,* my sympathies for a balloon will remain limited.
