This right here is *hilarious* and it needs to happen more. Lots more.
Jan 122021
Jan 112021
So, we get this article:
Danish proposal on translating sermons gets pushback from Church
It seems that there are sermons in Denmark that are not in Danish. Arabic, as the case seems to be. And that irritates some people, because it is not only exclusionary, it excludes the very people who allowed those sermonizers to come into Denmark in the first place. And so, not have a First Amendment, this law has been put forward.
OK, shrug, that’s for the Danes to deal with.
The line that stood out to me:
Blah, blah, blah said Precious Blood Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner, general secretary and spokeswoman of the Nordic bishops’ conference.
“Precious Blood Sister?”
Ummm… I *can’t* be the only one to read that and suddenly get an image of an angry woman in power armor wielding a chainsaw sword in the service of the Emperor of Mankind, can I?
Jan 112021
Well, we’ll see:
Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service
Seems they’ve signed up with Epik, the webhosting service that Gab also uses. Useful, but I imagine if Parler successfully migrates everything to the same servers running Gab, both systems are gonna be *reeeeaaaaal* slow until a lot more hardware is brought up to speed. And of course if both of these social media darlings are run through the same web host, a single attack on Epik could knock them both out.
Jan 112021
Latin Phrases Patriots Should Know: Patriotic Latin Phrases and Their Translations
I guess this is an ok compilation article… has stuff like:
Those are all ok, I suppose. But what I was really looking for was:
“Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc”: We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us
Yeah, yea, it’s not actually Latin, just something made to *sound* like Latin. May I remind you, 2+2=4 is racist, so…
Google Translate says the Latin should be “Non in die festo Parvam piamque dum lubenter eorum non proderunt domare Nobis,” Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Jan 112021
Megalodon babies ate their unhatched siblings in the womb
And on top of the cannibalism, scientists estimate the cute lil’ buggers were more than six feet long at birth.
Jan 102021
… showing the unruly, *terrifying* Domestic Terrorist Armed Insurrectionists Storming through the Capitol building. Just watch this, especially with the wise words of Our Betters in the media describing the truly horrific sight of people calmly walking between the ropes, and *brazenly,* *wantonly* and *fascistically* waving the US flag while in a US government building. The horror!
“See stunning video of rioters inside Capitol”
Sigh.
Once more, for those too dense to figure it out: yes, anyone who broke stuff or hurt/killed people needs to have the full force of law dropped on them. But once again I defy you to compare and contrast what we see and hear here, with masses of people who seem utterly uninterested in causing damage – and it’s not like they couldn’t have, had they wanted to – with the tens of thousands who swarmed our cities all this year burning cop cars and businesses, vandalizing memorials and pulling down statues. *THOSE* people were proclaimed as everything form someone with a valid point, to outright heroes. The folks in D.C.? they got the full Sandmann treatment.
I challenge you to imagine what this place would have looked like if these Dangerous Trumpists had had the same respect for law, order, history, property that your average Mostly Peaceful Protester had. I see a looooooooot of statues there that Antifa/BLM would have loved to have toppled.
Jan 102021
This “Star Trek: Enterprise”/”Babylon 5” crossover is more than a dozen years old. YouTube finally got around to recommending it to me today. It goes pretty much as it aught to.
Jan 102021
NASA will soon fire up the most powerful rocket ever built
So NASA is planning on a static fire of the core of the Space Launch System. OK, fine, if about a decade-plus behind schedule and maybe a couple dozen billion dollars over budget. But the article goes into WokeMath in order to ramp up the excitement:
UMMMMM….
The core of the SLS has four RS-25 engines, thrust 418 klbf each, totaling 1,672,000 lbf. The Saturn V had five F-1 engines, each with a thrust of 1,522 klbf each for a total of 7,610,000 lbf.
I’m not sure I agree with LiveScience’s math. But then, 2+2=4 is racist, so maybe 1.672 is greater than 7.610 these days.
Jan 102021
A few seemingly random (because they are) photos. First: a display model of an early General Dynamics concept for what would become the F-111.
And then… two photos of the Convair XB-46 in flight.
I’ve uploaded the full-rez versions of these to the APR Dropbox, into the 2021-01 APR Extras folder. This is available to any APR Patron or Subscriber at the $4 level and above.
Jan 092021
Amazon is cutting off Parler’s servers
Unless it can migrate to its own servers as Gab did late last year, Parler will go offline tomorrow.
Say what you will about predatory Big Tech censorship and anti-competitive practices, the more this sort of thing happens, the more resilient the alternatives will get.