Jul 122022
Jul 122022
I think a decent case can be made that we might see the collapse of civilization within a generation or two… and possibly sooner. The end of the Soviet Union over thirty years ago seemed like the dawning of a glorious new age… but we’ve squandered that opportunity. We’ve ignored the barbarians gathering outside the gates… and gathering *within* the gates. You can see it in many of the videos and news stories I’ve posted. Not just a coarsening of discourse, but a collapse of the family and an increasing feralness among fatherless “children.”
The piece below is depressing, and very likely right. I don’t agree with all of it… but you don’t need 100% agreement to agree that things are in a bad way, that something must be done, and the general direction of what that something is.
How To Recognize Civilization When You See It
Jul 122022
Keep this person away from children. Not even so much the ideology she’s pushing, it’s the fundamental lack of logic and reason. Or, rather, the fundamental presence of anti-logic.
This sort of person is the antithesis of “educator.”
A university professor with a nose ring? Yeah, no.
Jul 122022
Here we are, the leaders of the future:
EDIT: Huh. YouTube has decided that a news video has “violated their terms of service.” You can see part of the video here:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/video-shows-child-hit-and-swear-at-cop-in-minnesota/
Jul 112022
Neato. Every object in this image, apart from the over-exposed objects with the “lens flares” (which are nearby stars) are whole galaxies billions of light years away.
Webb’s First Deep Field Unveiled (NIRCam Image)
Image is about 2.4 arcmin across
The full gallery is coming tomorrow.
Jul 112022
A piece of artwork attributed to the DoD (1984 or before) depicting a large structure being built in space. Since it’s DoD, it is most likely a surveillance or mapping radar system of some kind, or an electronic listening system. Since it doesn’t seem to have either large PV arrays or a nuclear reactor – at least not yet at this stage in construction – I’d lean towards it being a listening system. Of course, a great deal more stuff may have been added to it after this… assuming it’s an actual design and not pure art.
Jul 112022
That’s the question everyone is asking now…
Clerk Shoots Customer Who Viciously Attacked Her At An O’Reilly Auto Parts Store
The very definition of FAFO.
Jul 112022
Granted that day was several days ago, but it’s still good:
When you realize your race card doesn't work outside of the U.S. pic.twitter.com/XdsBlEcqt2
— Maximus Decimus Meridius (@Most_Maximus) July 7, 2022
In short: Brittney Griner is some form of sportsball player who protested against the United States when she thought it was the politically popular thing to do. Now she has been arrested in Russian for having illegal drug substances, something she has apparently admitted to, and wants the US to ride to her rescue. Right now, though, Russia is (or at least should be) on America’s ᛋᚻᛁᛏ list. So leaving her there not only rids the US of someone who doesn’t like the US anyway, it leaves her care and feeding to the Russians who will have to spend fifty extra cents a day keeping her locked up. It’s win-win.
She really does have the look of someone having a bit of an epiphany:
Jul 112022
Not generally what you want to see…
Jul 102022
After four years, security camera footage has been released that shows how Richard Russell stole a turboprop airliner from SeaTac airport. He flew around for a while having a grand old time, scaring the pants off air traffic control, before intentionally crashing the plane on an island.
What he did was criminal and potentially could have resulted in many, many deaths. But it seems he didn’t want to kill anyone but himself, and the way he went out, with such apparent joy both in the way he flew and the things he said, has made him something of a hero to many. There was clearly something wrong with the man (some thinking that he was dain bramaged from repeated concussions during high school football)… but he went out on his own terms, I suppose. And these days… that’s about the most a lot of people can even dream of hoping for.