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.
This little cartoon is a little heavily steeped in the crass, but that doesn’t stop it from being durned funny.
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…
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.
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:
It’s for breaking car windows. Riiiiiiiiight.
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:
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.
YouTube randomly recommended this clip from the 1984 David Lynch “Dune” from way back when:
What made it special was the top comment:
Sometimes it’s done unethically. Sometimes it just happens.
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.
One approach, of course, is to simply do a half-assed job of it. Another approach seems like it will be exemplified by HBO:
Trying to equate 1950s Jim Crow-level racism with cosmic horror? Yeah, you’ve utterly misunderstood cosmic horror.
This is brought to you by J.J. Abrams, one of the men who ruined Star Trek, and Jordan Peele, who has made a career out of hating white folks.
Yaaaaaaay.
This here is damned interesting… an anti-scammer who gains access to far more of the scammers information than the scammers would have really liked. The fourth video includes some entertaining discussion of the utility of AI in combating scammers.
