So, AOC got “arrested” and “handcuffed.” Let’s watch, shall we?
As an aside, the link address for YouTube videos is auto-generated. Through doubtless random chance, the usual strong of random gibberish this time is… interesting.
Jul 192022
Jul 192022
They’ve introduced a new design. Whether this one will come anywhere near getting built is anyone’s guess; the history of such things does not bode well.
Boom Supersonic's NEW Overture design. Here's the breakdown
– Four engine design
– Quieter operations
– Contoured fuselage
– Gull wings
– Carbon composite structure
– Net zero carbonA radical design change that still leaves questions over engines and timetables #FIA2022 pic.twitter.com/D207ev8zHQ
— Dan | Djās Aviation (@DjsAviation) July 19, 2022
Hmmm…
That looks vaguely familiar…
Jul 192022
So, the western drought is turning the Great Salt Lake into a Great Salt Flat:
One of the suggestions made right at the end of the news piece is piping in ocean water.
Huh.
HUH.
Now, I wonder where I might have heard *that* idea before?
Oh, right: here.
Terraforming Utah: part 1
Terraforming Utah: part 2
My idea was to drain the lake, scoop out the muck, transport said muck out west a bit and build hills out of it, build pipelines from the sea to the lake. By scooping the bottom out ten, twenty, aĀ hundred feet and filling with ocean water, you can stock the lake with ocean life and turn it into a breeding ground for endangered fish, and an inland sea for fishing.
Sure, it’s an engineering challenge of some serious difficulty. But… step one seems to be well underway, whether we like it or not. What’s being left is a dry lake bed filled with salt and dust and arsenic; this stuff blowing around will make the atmosphere kinda horrible. So Something Must Be Done anyway. Why not go all the way?
And the lessons learned and industry spurred by the Pacific-to-Utah pipeline will come in handy when we built the Mississippi River-to-dry-western-states pipelines. Put the mouths of the pipes right at flood stage for the Mississippi, and draw out those irritating flood water out west where they can do some good filling rives and lakes and irrigating fields and putting out fires.
Jul 192022
First there was this, a rare bit of good news:
Judge dismisses murder charge against bodega clerk who claimed self-defense in fatal stabbing
Jose Alba never should have been charged in the first place. But at least some sanity finally prevailed.
But then I saw this:
GoFundMe allows page for Minneapolis gunman Andrew Sundberg after axing one for NYC bodega clerk Jose Alba
And then this:
‘Law & Order’ shooting: Crew member shot to death while reserving parking places for show in NYC
New York City: not even once. That town is run by crazy people. Crazy people who encourage other crazy people by devoting limited police resources to persecuting the law abiding and ignoring the actual threats.
Insanity.
But if you want *PROFESSIONAL* level of insanity, even New York City pales in comparison to what’s going on in Britain:
More than 1,000 children were raped and sexually exploited over 30 years in Telford where police and council officials ‘ignored’ abuse over fears investigating Asian men would ‘inflame racial tensions’
Telford child sex abuse inquiry: Abuse suspects disregarded over racism fears
And whyĀ not:
Trans swimmer Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year award
Jul 192022
Jul 182022
First up, a guy does a “social experiment” where he goes to a public place and just sticks out his hand to see who will shake it. The video is obviously edited, and the audio is replaced with a rather irritating song, so a lot of the context is lost. But what appears to happen is that men will shake his hand, and women won’t. What the *actual* ratios are is of course unknowable without the full video, but undoubtedly there is a distinct difference.
@thenotoriousalvin Man vs woman
Had my first experience of this particular video been the video itself, my reaction would have been a kinda bland “huh,” then I would have gone back to CAD drafting and forgotten it. But I first learned of it after having been randomly directed to this “think piece” reacting to the video:
What Men Donāt Get About Street Harassment
Where we learned that it is good and proper for all women to fear and distrust all men, and it is stupid of men to not automatically agree with the rightness of that position. But more telling – or at least more directly to the point – was one of the comments on the original TikTok video:
Women know that a handshake is never just a handshake when it comes to strange men. Donāt give āem anything. Donāt engage.
Don’t engage with men you do not know. Greeeeeaaaat. That will do wonders for the future of the species. But what do you want to bet that that same person might well be all about hookup culture, and is seriously upset that overturning Roe might cause her to have to change her behavioral plans?
Nobody is obligated to shake hands with anybody, certainly not strangers. It’s just a little odd that men are more trusting than women, and that this difference in trust is used as an excuse to cut off the possibility of human interaction. Far more often than seems good for the species I’ve heard or read someone tell a man who has asked about how to approach a woman he finds interesting: “leave her alone.”
And thus we end up with this…
… and wonder why some guys go buggo and shoot up schools.
Who benefits from a culture where women are told to distrust and fear men, and men are conditioned to avoid interacting with women? The makers of video games, I suppose. Whoever ends up creating the first truly successful fembot will make a mint. The leaders of nations, cultures or subcultures that see the West as an impediment or an enemy and who don’t engage in this sort of thing will see this as an absolute win.
Another point: does this finally, at long last, provide an objective, scientific definition of “what is a woman?” “A woman is someone who will avoid a handshake with a stranger.” Unless we find that a woman will shake hands with a woman. Then we’re sucked back into the philosophical quandary. What if the original creator of the video goes and does it again, but this time identifies as a woman?
Jul 182022
Elishjah Dicken is a *man.* He shot a murderer 40 yards away with a pistol. Well done sir.
EDIT: Video below is a local news interview with the grandmother of Dicken’s girlfriend. It’s worth a watch; nothing NSFW, just news. Dunno why they’ve blocked playback on other sites.
When seconds count, the police are only… what, like, 45 minutes away?
Elisjsha Dicken: Good Samaritan Named in Greenwood Mall Shooting
This news story has basically two characters of note. With luck, Elisjsha will be the one who is remembered.
Jul 182022
The future of the automobiles… yesterday!
Yeah, turbine engines for cars ended up not making sense, and probably never made sense. Certainly not in a world where gasoline was fairly cheap and environmental regulations demanding. If the world allowed for the economic use of, say, vodka or wax as a fuel, and didn’t give a damn about what came out your tailpipe, then, sure. But that’s not the world. And unless some major advancements are made in turbine powered electrical generators, meaning you could put aĀ *small* turbogenerator in your electric car to top up your batteries by pouring a mix of old turpentine and a case of Schlitz into the tank… the turbine engine will likely remain inappropriate for automobiles.
Jul 172022
The publisher is not yet ready to publicly disclose the title of Book 3. But what the heck, here’s a peek. One of these should be blisteringly obvious to the kind of person who buys my stuff. Another should *probably* be recognizable. The other two *may* be recognizable. These four are linked for a valid reason.
Jul 172022
Hey, Britain. Get yer crazies under control. This sort of insanity is supposed to be *our* job.
Woke dance school drops ballet from auditions as it is āwhiteā and āelitistā
Ballet has been dropped from auditions at leading dance schools as staff say it is rooted in āwhite European ideasā.
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), which aims to be a āprogressive institutionā, has reviewed the āelitistā art form as part of a diversity drive that has seen the introduction of new policies relating to gender and race.
Say, that’s neat. The school has a problem with ballet because:
1) You have to take classes to get good at it (what art form *doesn’t* require buttloads of practice???)
2) It has problematic ideas of body forms (imagine someone morbidly obese as a ballerina. Outside of “Fantasia,” it ain’t happenin’)
3) It has distinct gender roles. Because I guess it makes all kinds of sense for a petite ballerina to pick up a… ummm… ballerdude, whatever they’re called, and spin ’em around overhead.
4) Perhaps most importantly, it’s “European.” I guess that’s a problem in FRIGGEN’ BRITAIN.
So what they’re after is a form of dance where you can’t tell who’s a guy and who’s a gal, where someone extremely out of shape can perform as well as an athlete, and where you can pick it up without any sort of professional training.
This should be an endless source of amusement.