Feb 212022
Feb 212022
I see your “modern art” and raise you…
New album just dropped at Starbase pic.twitter.com/3GACK66k9f
— Cosmic Perspective (@considercosmos) February 20, 2022
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— Cosmic Perspective (@considercosmos) February 20, 2022
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Feb 212022
It has been brought to my attention that comments in a number of posts are being upvoted by a bot (example screenshotted below). What the actual point of that is, I don’t know, but it’s clearly not legit; it links to Disqus profiles that link to “dating sites” that are doubtless scam or phishing sites. Any ideas on how do block this sort of thing?
Feb 202022
Rocky Top Goes Woke
University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) is instituting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, with the goal of making staff and students “diverse.” The usual bunkum is described, but the bit likely of greatest interest hereabouts is this:
UTK’s diversity plans put many academic disciplines in a bind. The physics and astronomy department, the faculty of which is entirely white and mostly male, had to invent a “diversity plan” knowing that 80 percent of physics Ph.D.s nationwide are men and that the discipline produced only 22 black Ph.D.s out of nearly 2,000 awarded in 2017, the last year for which we have reliable data. In light of this difficulty, the department promised to “provide a clear set of guidelines” about “expected behaviors” with respect to “diversity and inclusion” and to develop an anti-bias reporting mechanism. The department’s plan envisions no curricular or partnership changes; it aims merely to reflect the racial and sexual makeup of the “American physics community and, eventually, our nation.” Something has to give: either the school will stop devoting resources to a department that cannot deliver “diversity” for the foreseeable future, or the department will sacrifice professional standards in the name of those goals. Similar dilemmas confront the biological and engineering sciences.
It’s long past time that this sort of nonsense was not only dispensed with, but investigated. *Nobody* in the US benefits from this sort of thing apart from grifters. Foreign adversaries, however, must look upon this with glee. Do they also look upon this as the culmination of plans? The FBI *really* should be looking into it.
Feb 202022
The Ottawa cops trampling people with horses story just got a bit more interesting:
This is the woman trampled by an RCMP horse in Ottawa. She is alive but has shoulder injuries, her family has said. Her name may be Candice Sero and she is full-blood Mohawk. If i have any of this wrong please inform me. pic.twitter.com/Zr0zXM7KeP
— Pauline Hall (@Pauline51734996) February 19, 2022
Woman trampled by Trudeau’s forces during freedom protest identified as Indigenous elder
As those who recall Smirkageddon a few years ago, the media loves them an “Indigenous Elder,” at least when they are on the right side of the narrative. But since she’s on the side that the political class has decided are racist terrorists… huh. I suspect she’s going to get a *lot* less coverage than Nathan Phillips got. Because getting trampled by a horse is less of a newsworthy big deal than having a kid smirk at you.
Feb 202022
This seems like *maybe* a bit much for home defense. But I’m not gonna judge.
The AR 500 From Big Horn Armory — Half Inch Holes
The 500 Auto Max round compared to a 5.56. Note that the itty-bitty 5.56 is often called “high power” by political hacks; imagine what they’d think of the larger round. Nine rounds fit in a magazine that would approximately fit 20 rounds of 5.56. Big and powerful as the round is, it appears to be short range only, losing a lot of velocity pretty quickly. Not surprising since its aerodynamics seem to more closely approximate that of a cannonball than a bullet. Twenty rounds seems like it’ll set you back fifty to seventy bucks, so unless you’ve got a financial agreement with the Chinese like the Bidens, make sure you hit where you’re aiming. A rifle itself runs about two grand. Seems like it’d be fun on the range.
Feb 202022
Yer got-dayum right, whoa.
Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Also, someone has some ‘splainin’ to do about this truly *quality* journalism on the topic:
At one moment, a massive wave smashes through the front windows of the boat, demolishing one passenger and flooding the entire cabin.
The wave was so powerful, you can hear the window break under its G-force.
Not clear the passenger was “demolished,” especially since the same article points out a lack of reported injuries. And I really kinda doubt that the wave broke the window through the gravitational field produced by the mass wave rather than, you know, the momentum of the wave.
Feb 192022
There really doesn’t seem to be a good way to interpret this set of yarns that results in a good look for Gropey Joe:
Go ahead, defend this. I dare ya.
Feb 192022
Race to salvage fire-ravaged US-bound cargo ship drifting in the Atlantic with thousands of supercars on board including Porsches, Bentleys and Lamborghinis with blaze fueled by batteries in electric vehicles
The cargo vessel “Felicity Ace” is burning, and will likely be destroyed along with its $120 million in cargo, due to a fire that may have begun in the batteries in the electric cars its carrying. There are 4,000 cars including Porsches, Bentleys and Lamborghinis.
When you ship a car, you ship it with the fuel tanks empty. Saves weight and makes things less flammable. But an electric vehicle ships with the batteries. And whether the batteries are charged or not they weight he same; and charged or not, the lithium in those batteries remains insanely flammable. So you pack a bunch of those cars together in a ship with no way to separate them, and no good way to put out a lithium metal fire… well, there ya go.
Feb 182022
So a bunch of gullible saps donated to an organization that just used their money to bail a racist terrorist and would-be assassin out of jail. The best possible result of this would be for the terrorist in question to attempt to run, get caught just across state lines, and that bail money to go *poof.* If that happens, my response would be almost *exactly* the same as the first 16 seconds of this video: