So YouTube recommended the new trailer for the movie “5-25-77:”
It’s a “coming of age” film about a kid who wants to make movies, set around the time of the release of the original Star Wars. Shrug, ok, another movie about movie makers. But a comment made me look this up on Wikipedia, and lo and behold, there IS something rather unique about the film:
Johnson began funding the project in 2001 and filming took place from 2004 to 2006. Additional shots and special effects were filmed in 2015, 2016, and over the next six years, making the films production span a total of 18 years.
There are lots of videos like this on YouTube. So here’s this one. It shows machines doing their thing, including a number in the process of making stuff so common you never think about them… and likely had no idea how they were made.
An Aerojet diagram comparing the Trident I (C-4) and Trident II (D-5) submarine launched ballistic missiles, showing the significantly larger size of the latter
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Far-left extremist Lemon is being moved from his own prime-time show, bearing *his* name, to being one of three talking heads in a morning show that nobody’ll watch. he claims it’s a “promotion.” I suspect it’ll be a lot of him being quiet while getting nagged/shouted over by the other two.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, there was a brief bit of manufactured outrage over Ukraine releasing some prisoners, giving them weapons and pointing them at the Russians. Granted, people in prison are generally there for a good reason; these are generally the kind of people you not only don’t want out wandering around, you *certainly* don’t want to stick a gun into their hands. But at the time, Ukraine was under threat of being erased from existence. Many talking heads in Russia had made it abundantly clear – as if the invasion hadn’t – that a cultural genocide of Ukraine was in the offing. In such circumstances, you do what ya gotta do. If that means recruiting prisoners… well, that’s not exactly a brand new and unique innovation in the history of warfare.
But the “48 hours, two weeks tops” invasion has turned into a spectacular ᛋᚻᛁᛏshow for the Russians… and now *they* are recruiting prisoners. Not to defend Russia, of course, but to drop them into Ukraine to carry out some war crimes. A video was rather bizarrely released showing a spokesweasel for the Wagner Group private army recruiting criminals at one of Russias many, many prisons. The video didn’t say *which* prison. but this… this is 2022. Took a feller less than a day to figure out just what prison it was. I don’t know if there is really any tactical, strategic, legal or diplomatic value in knowing that… but the ability to figure this sort of thing out this fast is part of the reason why Russia has done so poorly. The Ukrainians – and allied intelligence services – have been merrily intercepting phone calls and tweets and whatnot from Russian saps at the front, and the data has been used to send said sap a care package by way of missile or drone.
Here’s the original recruitment video:
Gotta wonder how this video would play back in the Motherland. Would it help get across the idea that the Special Military Blyatskrieg ain’t doin’ so great?
For years, border communities and border states have been pounded by the unwanted arrival of *millions* of resource-consuming “migrants.” Communities and states far from the border have been spared this… and at the same time vote for policies that condone and enable this. But if a mere *fifty* “migrants suddenly show up… oh, that’s “cruel” and “inhumane” now.
The school? About to be sued. Family of the bully? Hopefully to be sued into permanent poverty. The bully? Sadly little that can be done, given his juvenile status. But hopefully the internet will remember him when he’s an adult and wants an actual job. Would *you* hire him?
If nothing else, keep this video in mind when deciding on where to permit your kids to be schooled. If something like this happens at a school near you and the perp *isn’t* expelled, make sure your kids don’t go there.
