You’d think this place would be a PP magnet:
Dec 052021
Dec 052021
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has kindly provided a list of words and phrases to use more often:
Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using
Fight newspeak: use “problematic” terminology on a daily basis. Anyone bitches at you for it, accuse them of being vocabuphobic.
Dec 042021
CNN fires Chris Cuomo
Time for CNN to clean house.
Dec 042021
Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect held on $500,000 bond each after manhunt
These parents seem like real winners. But none of the reports I’ve seen have said what crime they actually are thought to have committed. Yes, their offspring murdered people, but being the parents of a murderer has up till now not generally been considered a crime. Yes, they bought him a gun… but far as I can tell, they purchased it legally, and gave it to him legally. He was not a felon at the time.
Making parents legally liable for the crimes of their minor children is a debate worth having. If this is accepted, there will be a lot of prisons receiving an influx of single mothers. Perhaps Constitutionally dubious, but almost certainly a net benefit for society, especially if the absent fathers can be tracked down and also charged. *Imagine* the effect on society if single mothers and absent fathers are held equally to account for the crimes of their kids. In order for justice to be served, this would have to exempt fathers who have been denied custody or visitation, but would include fathers who skipped town or refused responsibility.
UPDATE:
Get a load of this:
Michigan shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley’s parents plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges
The couple each face four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to Tuesday’s tragedy at Oxford High School for refusing to take their son out of school after staff said he exhibited warning signs of violence and needed counseling, according to authorities.
Huh. If the school felt he was a threat… why didn’t they boot his ass out?
Dec 042021
But apparently it’s straight up what Pelosi is like:
She’s *where* in the line of succession, again? Gee, I feel comforted when I ponder that the Chinese are working on “genetic weapons” that will target non-Han ethnic groups in order to damage their cognitive abilities.
Dec 042021
Along with some lawsuits, some legal repercussions seem like they aught to be hammered home.
It seems clear that multiple levels of NBC News fully intended to follow – and presumably dox – the Rittenhouse jury.
Dec 032021
Dec 032021
I’m sure there are some very good reasons for setting off explosives in a tunnel. I’m less convinced that it would be *fun* to do so while actually *in* the tunnel. You get to experience not just the initial *BANG,* but a number of subsequent ones as the shock waves bounced back and forth from one end of the tunnel to the other, passing over you each time, each direction. Still, it’s cool and all. BONUS idea: set playback speed to 0.25 and watch the shock tube do its job, racing off into the distance *far* faster than the bolt from an Imperial blaster.
Dec 032021
I coulda *swore* I posted a link to this video *years* ago, but a cursory search did not turn it up. Maybe I didn’t mention the band name or song title, dunno. But if you want a succinct, tight little effective sci-fi story starring YoSaffBrig, “The Ghost Inside” by Broken Bells will hook you right up.
One might argue that it’s a bit heartbreaking.
Dec 032021
If only we had stargates, here’d be a dandy place to ship off murderers, rapists thieves and Communists (but then, I repeat myself):
Hot little planet as dense as iron zips around red dwarf star
GJ 367b is 31 light years away:
- Diameter: 5,000 miles
- Mass: 55% Earth
- 86% iron
- Year: 7.7 hours
- Surface gravity: about 1.4 g’s
Sounds like a nice place, especially with this little detail:
- Surface temperature: 2,700 F