A wholly remarkable shooting caught on camera by a bystander. A crazed guy was shot at point blank range by a cop *twelve* times in the chest before he went down. So, yeah, I’m keeping my standard capacity mags, thanks.
#gore #gorefight pic.twitter.com/54ewtvgxkt
— Eze (@DEMON51912163) September 11, 2022
This loss of aircraft and crew didn’t need to happen… two SU-25’s took off at the same time and seemed to clip each other in flight, causing one to promptly crash and explode. Alternative explanation: banking too much, too soon, at too low of an airspeed, causing a wing stall. Gotta wonder if there was a problem with the pilots… either negligence/arrogance in the simultaneous takeoff (showing off?), or perhaps fatigue from nonstop missions against an enemy with a pretty good track record of turning planes like that into smoking ruins.
A statistician explains why most studies on the effectiveness of gun control laws are garbage, and only a small percentage are valid.
IZIUM/1330 UTC 13 SEP/ UK Intel discloses that the prestigious Russian 1st Guards’ Tank Army has been destroyed. This top-teir force is the largest single unit lost by Russia since World War II. Information is evolving, but captured RU troops may number in 10s of thousands. pic.twitter.com/QhXUgCHtzr
— Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | (@ChuckPfarrer) September 13, 2022
“IF” being the operative word.
Let’s say that the war somehow comes to a non-apocalyptic end, with Russia driven from Ukraine and tens of thousands of POWs left behind in Ukrainian custody. Ukraine needs a *lot* of work to rebuild; presumably those POWs would come in handy for that. I wonder about the legality of using them effectively as slave labor in construction camps. Or about “ransoming” them… put them to work, catalog and document who they are, and send bills to not just the Russian government but the *families* of the POWs. “You can have Ivan back for ten million American dollars. He gets to turn big rocks into little ones, until either his ransom is paid or the rebuilding of Ukraine is complete, whichever comes first.” With higher dollar amounts based on, say, rank. I wonder if GoFundMe would work with that…
Just a reminder that the Blyatskrieg is not the only conflict currently ongoing in the region of Europe (more Asian, but close enough):
Armenia & Azerbaijan have gone hot again. https://t.co/RKRYgPvRtT
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) September 12, 2022
So “The Woman King” is a forthcoming “based on real events” movie about the “Dahomey Amazons.” It’s being spun as sort of a real-world Wakanda… an African nation that fought against evil European slavers. Small problem: Dahomey made its riches by selling other Africans into slavery. That’s pretty much what their economy was based on. But, whatever. The focus of the movie is on a corps of female warriors, “Amazons” who fought for their king. How’d that work out for them? Well, there is the official trailer… and there’s this lightly modified version:
So I saw #TheWomanKing trailer and thought wow… a true story awesome… doesn't end well ladies sorry 🤣 pic.twitter.com/aqKvmww1VS
— Thermo (@NotThatThermo) July 15, 2022
What do you want to bet that that’s not exactly the spin the movie will produce…
An unmanned test flight of the New Shepard suffered a catastrophic engine explosion. The capsule seemed to successfully separate and landed normally, but that would have been a *damned* rough ride, with a bunch of eyeballs-out G’s for a few seconds.
On other launch matters: Firefly is gonna try to launch again today, not sure what time:
WHOOPS: scrubbed.
And NASA wants to try to launch Artemis on the 23rd.
Its maiden flight is now tentatively scheduled to take place on:
Since this sort of scene is a common result of certain policies that have been pushed for years now… this is what the people pushing those policies *want.* When I lived in California, I only visited San Francisco a few times… it seemed a weird mix of the classy and the trashy. But that was going on 20 years ago. Any actual “classy” looks to have been swept away, and the “trashy” has devolved directly into third word S-hole status.
Just another regular day in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/qVHKq48qyk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 9, 2022
Someone looks at things like this and nods in satisfaction.
Entertaining as always, but with a healthy dose of WTFery when he discusses the condition of the Moskva prior to being attacked. It’s… kinda astonishing. A ship that on paper was damned impressive, capable of dishing out heaps of violence, and able to defend itself from heaps of violence, turned out to be almost wholly inoperable. With an unforeseen diversion into the One True Cross, because apparently a chunk of it was on the Moskva. Whoopsie.
Wow. Ummm… time has passed a *lot* faster than i would have expected.
Kids born on 9/11 can now drink pic.twitter.com/f6sfiHCvrE
— Spinachbrah 🥗 (@Spinachbrah) September 11, 2022