The material teaches that women can change their mind about consent the day after an encounter, effectively leaving women with the ability to re-write history and accuse sexual partners of inappropriate behavior despite receiving consent.
Yeesh.
You want wacko incels? Because this is how you get wacko incels.
Kinda in a bit of a financial bind here, so I’m going to sell off some stuff. The first thing up: a large format print of a scan of Model 2050E X-20 Dyna Soar in the final, as-almost-built configuration. This was printed off some years ago on good quality heavy glossy photo paper; I’d always wanted to have it framed and on my wall, but never got around to it. Plus, framing it properly would be a a bit of an effort due to the size of the print, but if it was done it’d look *great.* Waste not, want not: the full rez scan didn’t quite fill out the 24-inch-wide paper, so I added in some of my Utah panoramic photos to take up some of the excess space. So with a bit of trimming, if you buy this you not only get the Dyna Soar, but some Utah as well. The whole print is I think six feet long.
UPDATE: didn’t really seem to fly off the shelves, so I’m going to slice this up and put it on ebay at some point.
Photos:
The hits just keep on coming.
Day before yesterday, Buttons started a new thing: barfing. A lot. First he barfed up his food, then he barfed up foam. So today I took him to the vet. He was X-rayed and large gas bubbles spotted in his intestines. The vet suggests that the likeliest cause is some sort of blockage… quite possibly a string of some kind. Unfortunately, Buttons is a dumbass when it comes to string, gnawing on strings at every opportunity. It’s not a 100% certainty that that’s the problem, but if it *is* a problem, the string could cut through his intestines and kill him dead. So he’s spending the night at the vet; first thing in the AM the vet will look at him again, see if he has barfed or pooped or whatever, then decide what to do. Very likely there will be an operation.
I also discussed Raedthinn with this same vet a different one from a few days go, to get a second opinion. This vet has seen this problem many times. And every time it has ended with death.
So.
UPDATE, Saturday AM: The vet re-X-rayed Buttons this morning and found that things are moving. The progress is indicative of there *not* being a string in his bowels, so no surgery is called for and he has been sent home. However… the excessive barfing has not been explained. So I’m to keep a watch on him for the next few days and rush him back tot he clinic if the barfing returns. So… about halfway to good news, I suppose.
On Tuesday conversation with my vet indicated that unless the trouble with fluid buildup in his chest ended, Raedthinn had somewhere between hours to a few weeks. Through today, he’s had a good strong voice and easy breathing, which has given me hope that perhaps the problem had at least partially resolved itself. Watching him lay on my bed tonight, though, it’s starting to look like he has some complicated and labored breathing. Which would indicate the problem continues. Damn.
The local fire department burned down a small empty house this afternoon.
A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls—made a shocking demand. Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that “the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,” so that “no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.”
The basic notion of a government telling a religion what to believe? Ha. The idea of a western government successfully petitioning Muslim leaders to change the book that they think is the actual unalterable word of what they think of as a god?
Best o’luck, France.
With recent hair-pulling issues, other things have fallen by the wayside of have been forgotten, ignored, etc. But this morning I noticed something vaguely interesting, if not terribly exciting.
A week-ish ago I bought a document off of eBay. Normally I wouldn’t have bought this *specific* document, because it’s available on the NASA tech report server. No point in spending money on something that’s available for free. But I bought it because the NASA PDF is, like a lot of them, scanned rather poorly, especially the art and diagrams. The intent is to scan the graphics from this and make it available to APR Patrons. The document is a 1980 DOE/NASA conference proceedings on the solar power satellite program.
The document is in fairly good shape except for a torn-off corner on the aft cover:
I saw the mailing label on the aft cover. The conference proceedings were originally mailed to one Peter Glaser of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Something about the name seemed familiar, so off to Wikipedia. Turns out he has his own entry:
Peter Edward Glaser (September 5, 1923 – May 29, 2014) was a Czechoslovakian-born American scientist and aerospace engineer. He served as Vice President, Advanced Technology (1985–94), was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA (1955–94); subsequently he served as a consultant to the company (1994–2005). He was president of Power from Space Consultants (1994–2005). Glaser retired in 2005.[1]
OK, not too surprisng that the guy who originally owned this conference proceedings on the Solar Power Satellite program back in 1980 would ahve been an aerospace engineer. but here’s the one kinda interesting bit:
In 1968 he presented the concept for,[6] and in 1973 was granted the US patent on,[7] the Solar Power Satellite to supply power from space for use on the Earth.
Huh. Turns out the SPS document I just bought was originally owned by the guy who patented the SPS.
Not world shatteringly important, just kinda spiffy.
Artwork was created for USBP 21 by Rob Parthoens depicting the Convair Submersible Nuclear Ramjet launching vertically from the ocean. This is approximately the craziest design for a manned aircraft I’ve seen from the post-war period.
Be sure to check out US Bomber Projects issue 21 to read more about this design.
Republicans fought to free the slaves, Democrats fought to preserve slavery. Since the 1970s or so, though,it has become Received Wisdom that the parties switched… all the racists switch to the Republicans, nowthe Democrats are the party of tolerance and caring for black folk. But is that true?
Well… no. Not at all.