May 052020
May 052020
Found out today that the book I’ve been slaving away at has been delayed. Thanks to CERTAIN GLOBAL PROBLEMS causing supply chain issues and shutting down distributors and wholesalers, publication of my book has been put off by One Year.
Golly gee, thanks for that pandemic, ya commie bastiches.
In a desperate effort to look on the bright side, this also gives me an extra year to finish the manuscript. As anyone who has ever had to write some big report as a school assignment only to get an extension on the due date knows, this can be both good and bad. Extra time is handy, but it tends to result in slacking off if one isn’t careful. Still and all, I expect that this will lead to an expanded version of the book, assuming I don’t get taken down by the Pinko Pox before I turn it in.
Extra sadness: I was preparing to turn in a proposal for the *next* book, and it was agreed that it would have gone straight to contract were things different.
May 052020
Guys. GUYS. I know Disney done farked up Star Wars, but arresting girls dressed as Stormtroopers because you’re all askeered of their fake plastic blasters? Not the way to earn your way into Cophalla.
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
May 052020
This little cartoon is a little heavily steeped in the crass, but that doesn’t stop it from being durned funny.
May 042020
This is from more than a decade ago. But given how 2020 is shaping up, expect to see something not unlike this near you in the near future. Maybe a whole lot of somethings like this in November, if a Certain Someone wins re-election…
May 042020
I believe the proper response to these numbers is akin to “Yikes.”
Knowing what we now know about RS-25 engine costs ($146 million each); using Tory’s formula below, the true cost of an SLS launch is about $3.5 billion. I would not doubt it. https://t.co/qhxCrJse1I
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) May 4, 2020
A single RS-25 engine – of which each SLS will expend five – costs $146 million. Ummmmmm… the SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy costs, lemme see, $90 million. You could buy 1.61 F9H’s for the cost of one SLS *engine.* A single complete SLS launch would buy you almost 39 F9H’s.
May 032020
The one where Skallagrim subjects himself to getting thwacked with a steel cable:
What we have here is a self defense tool that relies upon “pain compliance” to get the job done. it’s unlikely to break bones and unlikely to cut very deeply when used as a whip, but it seems damned likely to hurt like a ᛗᚩᛏᚻᛖᚱᚠᚪᛣᚳᛖᚱ if used properly. A hit across the face seems almost certain to bring the issue to a close… and cause permanent blindness by chucking the eyeball across the room. Also demonstrated: the fact that whips go both ways… depending on followthrough, that thing comes back and bites you.
As mentioned in the video, the legality of such a device for the purpose of self defense is likely dubious in a lot of places. And thus when you look it up on Amazon, it’s being sold as something a little different than what it *actually* is:
Stinger Whip Car Emergency Tool (Black)
It’s for breaking car windows. Riiiiiiiiight.
May 032020
What’s the best response to massive and blatant governmental overreach, using the Pinko Pox to acquire totalitarian powers with draconian punishments for trivial offenses? I’m not sure, but here’s a foul-mouthed Australian going on about some remarkable incidents down Oz way:
Bonus round:
Coronavirus: Arrests over ‘disgusting’ racist Covid-19 stickers
Apparently it’s racist to point out that at the same time the government is forcing the native population to hunker down in fear they’re also arresting people for suggesting that maybe the borders should be closed to the importation of untold numbers of people carrying Odin knows what.
May 022020
YouTube randomly recommended this clip from the 1984 David Lynch “Dune” from way back when:
What made it special was the top comment:
I dunno, maybe it’s not *really* as funny as I thought it was, but it got me laughing pretty hard.
May 022020
Sometimes it’s done unethically. Sometimes it just happens.
More than 1,300 at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center test positive for COVID-19
The main points of note:
Out of the 2,450 total tests, more than 1,300 staff and inmates tested positive.
According to the state, analysis of the test results confirmed that 98% of those who tested positive are asymptomatic.
This would argue that there should be roughly fifty times the number of people with the Commie Cough than currently calculated for the simple reason that 98% of the people who halve it have no symptoms and are thus unlikely to be tested. And so, according to THIS, there are currently 1,069,375 confirmed cases in the US, with 62,996 deaths, for a mortality rate of *something* like 5.5% (probably higher, since a lot of the current cases have yet to run their course). But factoring in the prison data, there should actually be about 53,500,000 cases, with a mortality rate of 0.12%.
The testing on prisoners is of course an intentional act. But the actual infection of the prisoners is almost certainly Just One Of Them Things, aided by the high population density.
Lessons to be learned include that it *seems* that the Pinko Pox is not as fatal – at least to the kind of folks to who populate prisons – as it seems to be… and that high population densities are bad for public health. Consequently, things like public housing, apartment blocks, condos, public transportation and San Francisco should be banned.