That’s right, I want to see this project succeed. Because I want the world filled with quality Star Trek ships, that’s why.
Anyway, the crowdfunding effort for Tomy’s 1/350 scale die-cast NCC-1701 USS Enterprise went live earlier today. They need 5,000 orders before proceeding; so far they have 130. I’m not sure if that’s a good start or not.
So, what do you do if you are in HR *and* you’re a political extremist who loves to use the power your job gives you in order to screw with people who don’t think like you? Well, if you’re smart, you keep your yap shut about how awful a person you are. If, on the other hand, you’re dumb as a post, you do what Tammy here did and broadcast your particular banality of evil to the cosmos:
And these people think they’re on the right side of history? pic.twitter.com/mpfvtFmFCV
— Luke 🇨🇦🍁 (@scotchypoli) June 5, 2022
And here’s the ironic part: what she posted on social media has come to bite her right directly in the keister. Love to see it.
HRPA is aware of this video post by one of its regulated members and does not condone or endorse in any way the statements made about HR practice therein.Further, HRPA is reviewing this matter to determine if there has been a breach of its Rules of Professional Conduct.(Part 1/2)
— HRPA (@HRPA) June 6, 2022
It’s my understanding that in the US (she’s Canadian, so might not apply), HR departments telling other companies HR departments not to hire certain people violates privacy laws or some such. She should be investigated, and if it can be proved that she engaged in such practices, I have to imagine that the lawsuits from people denied employment by her and her ilk could be fiscally damaging to her and her ilk.
The mark of good craftsmanship is that they make what they do look easy enough that anyone could do it. The mark of wise maturity is that you can look at that process and “haha, no, I ain’t gonna try that cuz I’ll screw it up.”
We all agree that young men who shoot up schools and grocery stores and such should be investigated and understood, with the goal of understanding what led them to do it. The important thing to learn would hopefully be how to spot the same sort of whacko *before* he goes bugnuts. Some things seem obvious, such as “as a kid he loves to torture cats.” Such a lil dickens should be put under one hell of a microscope, up to and including institutionalization. Another possible marker of a whacko mind? Writings of a particularly creepy and violent nature.
Take, for example, this:
That’s a brief little tale written and posted online waaaay back in 1988, in the earliest days of Ye Olde Internet. As a story, it’s not well written. As a warning sign, it’s got kinda flashing neon lights. One would hope that the author of such a thing *today* would draw the attention of The Authorities. You would hope that the actual author would have been kept far from the reigns of power.
I suppose the chances were good, but the commies finally got me. After starting to feel like garbage on Friday, I had one hell of an awful weekend and got to the drug store today to get the covid test today. Huzzah, positive.
Things are not so bad now, but Saturday was really something, with a fever high enough to make me loopy. The whole weekend was characterized by “inertia,” not just physical, but mental. It stripped me of anything resembling enthusiasm, initiative or creativity. I sat my ass in front of the computer all weekend to work on Book 3… and I plopped out a grand total of four sentences.
Things today are much less awful, though still awful. Temperature is all over the place, though no longer as high as Saturday. I’d like to think that the worst is passed… but who knows. So if I vanish… well, there ya go.
EDIT: I just noticed that I posted a surprising number of posts on Saturday.
I don’t remember any of them.
Huh.
At first it looks like anger. On closer examination, I think terror might be closer to the truth. Either would be appropriate… but the latter is more likely as that critter is faced with incomprehensible cosmic horror.
📷by Pavel Volkov pic.twitter.com/xVE7xuDJr3
— Ǝ˥ԀOƎԀ (@DailyLifePeople) May 31, 2022
Wow:
In short… the British government plans to implant 1,500 military age foreign men into a village with a total native population of 600. Men from cultures *very* different from English, with whole different ideas about just how wrong it is to sexually assault girls (and probably boys as well).
There is no good end to this story. And the people in charge fully know this… and they’re not just doing it anyway, they’re accelerating it.
It’ll be a while yet before Disney snaps up all the righted needed to make this happen. But when the day comes, the *idea* will be there. Whether the execution will be any damn good is another thing entirely.
