Wokeness should be seen for what it is: worldwrecking. it tears down successful, popular cultural icons and replaces them with rubble and decay, the purpose being to demoralize the normies and empower the psychopaths. It’s a pathway to power for those without any otherwise useful skills or talents.
I don’t know who this guy is; seems like just some random schmoe. But it’s important to know the views that some people hold.
Translation: “I want to kill you because you want the means to defend yourself.”
Mockery is the best medicine:
A Chinese company has shown off their “flying car.” But it’s not a “flying car.” It’s a passenger-carrying VTOL (assuming it actually works), but it’s no more a “car” than a Huey is a Jeep or a Harrier is a sports car.
Words mean things.
Union Pacific is temporarily suspending eastbound service from West Coast port terminals to its Global IV intermodal facility in Chicago to help ease “significant congestion” at inland terminals, especially Chicago, and at the ports. The suspension is aimed at helping ocean carriers reduce backlogs.
Stopping traffic eastbound to ease congestion on west coast ports? Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense to me, either. *Maybe* they mean that trains that otherwise would have taken the long road to Chicago are now going to spend their days on much shorter routes, thus hauling more stuff away from the ports faster. The stuff will just stack up at inland locations, though.
Perhaps the trains are just hauling containers *near* Chicago. There to offload them, fill them with rubble and debris, and build a wall around Cook County.
Buttons has been feeling a bit under the weather lately. Mostly seems ok, but he’s had trouble with food. He’s hungry and demands food, but when presented with food he just sorta looks at it sadly and walks away. Best guess: his sense of smell or taste has been messed with. He wants food, he sees food, but he doesn’t *smell* food. And thus we get this portrait. He lay there for several minutes looking sadly at a pile of his favorite food.
A talk with the vet was unenlightening. So, I had to science the ᛋᚻᛁᛏ out of the situation. New bags of his normal food also did not pass muster, so it wasn’t a problem with the specific bags of food. Several bags of entirely different brands didn’t work. Treats, however, worked. But he can’t subsist on treats… partly because they’re just not that great nutritionally, but mostly because Buttons requires a special diet due to a predisposition to forming some sort of crystals in his urinary tract.
So, problem: cat wants food but won’t eat food. Hypothesis: his sense of smell is diminished. Observation: he will eat treats. Observation: treats are a lot stronger smelling that normal food.
Experiment one: Mix treats with food. Result: Buttons picked the treats out… but *did* eat some food in the process. Didn’t spit out bits of food, but didn’t seek them out, either.
Experiment two: crush treats to powder, mix with food, shake vigorously. Now food smells like treats. Result: Buttons eats *almost* like normal.
The root cause is as yet unresolved, but a workaround has been produced that will hopefully function adequately until things hopefully return to normal. Hopefully.
Banshee posing on a couch. This was not a brief moment; she sat this way for quite some time.
Speedbump sitting atop the couch.
A pity this place doesn’t seem to have a “history” function to see how prices have varied over time…
49 cents a round for 45 ain’t *great*, but I’ve certainly seen far, far worse on the shelves.
Huh.
Poland’s defense minister announced Wednesday that the country will buy 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 tanks from the U.S. to counter Russian military capabilities…
