Giving yourself away

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Aug 142022
 

There are a *lot* of lessons to be learned from Russias ongoing war. One being: don’t post your location on social media, especially if the enemy *really* wants you dead and has access to long range precision ordnance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yFz7cuT7o

Hmm. This one doesn’t seem to auto-embed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yFz7cuT7o

UPDATE: Huh. The video is now private. This seems to be because the video has been updated:

 

Interestingly, one of the video clips that was removed showed a soldier just walking along… a soldier with a *US* flag patch on his shoulder. Whether that means that was actually irrelevant footage of a US solider somewhere else (Afghanistan?) or a mercenary with a US patch… dunno.

 Posted by at 11:08 pm

There’s no pleasing some people

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Aug 142022
 

So California and the rest of the southwest have been dealing with a “megadrought.” California responds to it with fires and riots and water bans and mass lootings (some of those are perennial California favorites drought or no drought). But now they have something new to complain about:

A disastrous megaflood is coming to California, experts say, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history

Claim is that thanks to climate change (remember: the carbon dioxide being burped into the atmosphere these days is disproportionately at the hands of China and India) a weather event that floods all of central California could come in the next 40 years and could recur every 50 years or so. If that’s the case, California would do well to prepare: Excavate new, vast reservoirs. Build aqueducts from likely flood zones to rivers and that great big ocean they’re sitting next to.

 Posted by at 9:58 pm

Expand your vocabulary

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Aug 132022
 

A word for today:

vacuous [ vak-yoo-uhs ]

adjective

  1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
  2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
  3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
  4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

Example:

Imagine “fireside chats” and “state of the Union” addresses like this.

 Posted by at 2:18 pm

And that’s the important thing

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Aug 132022
 

WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

Hey, here’s a thought: rather than renaming the disease, how about you tell people in important risk categories to stop being dumbasses and keep it in their pants for a month or two?

Oh, hey, and more good news:

Poliovirus detected in wastewater samples in New York City, health officials say

Anybody else remember when polio was one of them “old timey” diseases that nobody got anymore? Good times.

 Posted by at 12:31 am

Time to start virtue signalling

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Aug 132022
 

You might note that I’ve never plastered permanent Ukraine flag banners or Pride Month or BLM flags or any such. I wonder if my failure to do so might have hurt my business opportunities with certain groups and individuals that require such displays of insincere allegiance. So… here’s a first tentative step towards rectifying that, by posting some things I fully support:

What else should an enlightened feller such as myself glom onto?

 Posted by at 12:22 am

Arrogance and privilege on *full* display

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Aug 122022
 

One “Angel Guice” decided to be a jerk during a minor traffic stop. The cop gave her repeated opportunities to sign the ticket (for being in a park after closing) and she refused each time. When the opportunities ran out, after having been told that her refusal to sign would lead to her arrest, she feigned confusion as to why she was being arrested, screaming and hollering like a friggen’ toddler. If anyone ever merited a taserin’ it’s right here. The bad acting is phenomenal.

She converted a simple ticket into physical pain and charges with jail time. But I fully expect that Grievance Lawyers will come out and start demanding big payouts for how “unfairly” she was treated.

 

It’s entitled ignorant people like this who are tearing society down, one outburst at a time. But at least they provide some entertaining video for the ride down.

 Posted by at 4:31 pm

Salman Rushdie stabbed

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Aug 122022
 

After thirty years living under  “fatwa” calling for his death issued by a head of a branch of a Surt-worshipping cult, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck today in New York state. Reports are that the injuries are pretty bad, but info so far is pretty slim. There’s gonna be some questions as to why the man didn’t have a small army of bodyguards.

Check the comments on some of those tweet… there are people openly praising the attack because, to them, saying anything negative about their primitive superstitions is a “crime” punishable by death. This is the mindset that Britain, for example, is welcoming in by the boatload.

Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle must be checking the status of their security team payment plans.

 Posted by at 3:55 pm

Best line I’ve read in a while

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Aug 102022
 

“Quora” allows any goober to ask any goofball question, and anyone can respond. I have no idea when or why Quora decided to send me emails with some of the latest and greatest posts, but a couple times a day, there they are. Anyway, this one popped up today:

I support banning guns in the US. Can pro-gun people provide some reasons why gun control is bad?

There are a bunch of answers of varying levels of wisdom. But one line that jumped out:

So whenever anyone says “I don’t think you should have guns” or “I don’t trust you with guns”, I must ask in turn, what are you planning to do to me that you think I’d shoot you over?

What are you planning to do to me that you think I’d shoot you over?

 Posted by at 8:59 pm
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