May 242022
 

Another “western scientific tradition rocks, suck it supernaturalists” success story:

Icelandic man, 49, who underwent the world’s first double arm and shoulder transplant 16 months ago reveals he’s now able to lift weights at the gym and hug his grandchildren after making miraculous recovery

He got his arms amputated after they were electrocuted back in the 90’s, and replaced a year and a half ago. And now he’s not only gaining movement in them, but sensation as well.

Soon: cloned arms, no worry of rejection.

There’s an old observation: you might see a lot of abandoned crutches piled up around a faith healer or a witch doctor… but you won’t see many prosthetic legs or eye patches.

 Posted by at 1:57 am
May 232022
 

Stealing washing machines is weird, but it’s understandable if you assume that they have no basic appliances back home. But stealing pets is done purely out of malice.

 Posted by at 4:38 pm
May 232022
 

This image brought to you by SCIENCE:

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#WeatherWednesday On rare summer nights, ethereal forms leap into the skies above distant thunderstorms. Alien invaders? Not quite: it’s a jellyfish sprite, an extremely brief and rarely captured event associated with incredibly powerful lightning strikes. This event occurred above a powerful storm about 100 miles away as seen from McDonald Observatory on July 2nd, 2020. Image Credit: @hummel_stephen
This guys astrophotography is the sort of stuff that makes a social media platform like Instragram actually have some value. Take a look:
 Posted by at 3:03 pm
May 222022
 

‘Completely inappropriate’: ‘Jurassic Park’ stars Laura Dern and Sam Neill reflect on 20-year age gap

Laura Dern now feels that the twenty or so year age gap between her and Sam Neill was “inappropriate” in “Jurassic Park.” If she was a teenager and he was pushing 40 and they were romantically hooked up… sure. But she was in her mid twenties *and* their relationship was not shown to be romantic but professional.

 

 Posted by at 6:40 pm
May 222022
 

At this point it’s safe to assume that he’s well. Let’s hope that he has a feeling of security and happiness that the two monsters who sicced dogs on him never feel again.

FYI, here’s Banshee. She complains a LOT. But she will, with any luck, never know any real hardship or trouble again:

 Posted by at 6:35 pm
May 222022
 

First foreign baby formula shipment set to arrive Sunday

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be on hand to receive 132 pallets of formula produced by Switzerland’s Nestle S.A. set to arrive in Indianapolis, the White House said Saturday.

132 pallets, huh? Wow. That might cover one good sized city for… what? A month?

I guess it’s a good thing that Americans have stopped having babies, because apparently we can’t feed them ourselves anymore. But *of* *course,* we can provide for illegal invaders. Yes, we should feed those in detention. But… they should leave detention as quickly as possible. Preferably on aircraft flying directly to Tierra del Fuego or points south. In a time of crisis in the US – and even in good times – illegal aliens should be deported ASAP.

I’ve visited a number of WalMarts and grocery stores lately, and the “baby formula” aisles look about like the “toilet paper” aisles during early 2020.

 

It seems that the root cause of the baby formula shortage was *one* Abbott factory in Michigan shutting down due to contamination concerns back in February, and not yet back up and running. Why are things so concentrated that one single factory can control the fates of so many Americans? Shouldn’t this sort of thing have more localized and widely distributed production? That one factory could fail for any of a number of reasons, including but not limited to accidental fires, Mostly Peaceful Protests, the spiking price of gas shutting down transport to and/or from.

And as always, you can count on the far left extremists to take this situation and go absolutely whackaloon. Take, for example, this article from Vox:

The many, many costs of breastfeeding

It is basically a propaganda piece extolling the evils of breastfeeding, compared to the good and proper approach of formula-feeding. While some of the points are valid, it’s worth noting that the world “mother” never once appears in the article. Nor do “woman” or “women,” odd omissions given the subject of the article. The closest they come is “birthing parent.” Even then, that only appears in a single panel of a cartoon explaining that if a “birth parent” doesn’t want to breastfeed its infant, it shouldn’t have to, full stop. Because the needs of a dependent human are less important the the shallow desires of someone else. Which logic I’d be interested in seeing deployed against, say, dependent humans such as prisoners and welfare recipients. How about men who simply “don’t want to” pay child support or alimony? I just got hit with a massive property tax bill. I don’t want to pay it. Would Vox be equally as sanguine about my desire to not take care of the responsibilities that I willingly signed up for?

 

Storytime: an EMP weapon goes off a few hundred kilometers over the central US, shutting down virtually *all* production lines in a thousand-mile radius for a span of a year or so. Fill in the rest.

 Posted by at 5:33 pm