Heh. It actually works pretty well.
i remain surprised that YouTube and such platforms have not banned any instance of “Let’s Go Brandon.”
Oct 272021
Oct 272021
Hollywood loves trashing cities like New York, LA, San Francisco. Take for example “San Andreas” where a series of unlikely earthquakes topple all of LA and SF. The thing I often wonder about, though, is the legality of it: recognizable buildings like the Transamerica Pyramid are private property; someone owns them. The whole city is covered in private property. What legal monkeymotions does a studio have to go through to be able to “destroy” a known building and not get sued silly? Because if they had to do that for every recognizable building in movies like “Deep Impact” where all of NYC gets wiped out, the cost and complexity would seem prohibitive.
Oct 262021
Sometimes there are interesting historical comparisons that can be made. Not so much in that sometimes more or less the same thign happens twice, but that the same sort of event can have utterly different responses.
For example, look at how Wikipedia covers the death of George Floyd:
But an incident that was remarkably similar – a man was held down by cops until he died – is described thusly:
One of these guys was “murdered,” the other was “killed.” One resulted in riots and arson and book burning and statues being pulled down and history being memory holed not just in the US, but in the UK… the other has been effectively ignored. One of these resulted in millions of dollars in ransom payments from the city and the criminal charging of the cops involved; the other resulted in no charges, no payments.
One of these was black, the other white.
It should also be noted that the Wikipedia writeup about Timpa was reproduced in its totality above, only the references didn’t fit. That small bit of text is all there is to say on the subject. The Floyd Wikipedia page is something like 20 times longer.
The fact that Certain Groups can be killed by the police and it’s not big deal, while Other Groups being killed by the police in identical manners results in society being torn down tells you everything you need to know about who actually has privilege and power and where the *real* systemic racism lies.
Oct 262021
Dave Chapelle isn’t bending the knee.
Updated with YouTube version of the same video:
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Oct 262021
Oct 262021
Alternatively: tie a rope around them, then tie the other end to a tree or some such, then use a come-along to pull them loose.
Oct 252021
A few weeks ago an aircraft flying of San Diego was filmed scanned the ground below using a green laser (lidar) system. Typically topographic scans are done in daylight using infra-red lidar systems; the human eye can’t see those and they go un-noticed. But green lasers are used to scan the bottoms of water, such as ponds, lakes and rivers. And green lasers are visible and doubtless kinda freaky.
Sadly I could not find this video on YouTube or some other embeddable form, but it’s viewable easy enough on Reddit.
Mysterious plane scanning San Diego Mission Beach yesterday.
Oct 252021
I might even have to start watching.
Oct 252021
Ransomware hackers nervous, allege harassment from U.S.
Some of the most destructive ransomware hackers in the world appear to be on edge after the U.S. reportedly took down one of their colleagues.
Several ransomware gangs posted lengthy anti-U.S. screeds, viewed by NBC News, on the dark web. In them, they defended their practice of hacking organizations and holding their computers for ransom.
Sounds like Antifa and BLM and their shills: doing evil things is ok when *we* do it.
And speaking of doing evil…
Nominees for a Science Award Were All White Men—Nobody Won
The five finalists for the American Geophysical Union’s fellows program were all white guys… so they decided to not make an award at all.
For something related to science, the lack of data here is shocking. Consider:
AGU selected a total of 59 fellows this year, and 45 of them are men. Additionally, 46 of the fellows are from the U.S., while only 13 are from other countries.
The trend has been similar in recent years. In 2020, 46 out of 62 fellows were men, and 43 fellows were from the U.S. In 2019, 47 out of 62 fellows were men, and 36 were from the U.S.
OK, so it looks like right around 75% of the chosen fellows were men. So… what percentage of the possible candidate group were men? Are there more than 25% women in upper-level geophysics? That bit of data doesn’t seem to be in the article. And well more than half of those chosen were American. But… this is the American Geophysical Union. Wouldn’t it therefore follow that they’d choose fellow Americans to be fellows?
Oct 252021
I love cats. Bigger cats seem like they might be especially cool. But they also seem like they might take the murder-machine abilities of your average housecat and crank them up to 11. So this seems like tempting fate.