UPDATE: scrubbed again due to a leak. *Maybe* Monday.
Two hour launch window opens at 2:17 PM Eastern time. A couple channels likely to show it live. Weather is not spectacularly promising. If not tomorrow, Sunday might be a possibility.
UPDATE: scrubbed again due to a leak. *Maybe* Monday.
Two hour launch window opens at 2:17 PM Eastern time. A couple channels likely to show it live. Weather is not spectacularly promising. If not tomorrow, Sunday might be a possibility.
There is some real talent here.
I haven’t completed a WWTDO story since 2018, but a few days ago I completed an all-new one: “The Camp Commanders Conundrum.” This followed after cracking open my WWTDO folder and taking a look at a number of incomplete stories last saved four years ago… a few of them carried out to some length… and I can’t for the life of me remember where I was going with them. D’oh. Hopefully as the Wu Flu cognitive effects fade away and my noggin returns to normal some memories will reemerge.
The first books worth of stories was completed in about a month four or more years ago; I then started work on two different books. The first book was a collection of separate stories from the first few days of the war; the second book would have covered a span of some months. The other book I started was something of a prequel. A third book, with nothing yet written, would cover a span of a few years, up to the end of the war (no spoilers on how it ends, but it’s in the Lovecraft mold, so go ahead and guess). I’ve another Book 2 yarn in mind that I might scribble down soonish, as well as returning to the incomplete ones. I think that when I’ve got the third book finished I might take a stab at finding a publisher. Shrug.
I’m not entirely convinced that this is *actually* from the Amazon series. But I’m not convinced that it’s not, either.
I’ve heard this speech before. Last time, it was in German.
Anyone who disagrees with him and his senile policies is evil and stupid. Even better: burning down businesses and killing people in the streets for political purposes? Not worth mentioning. Milling about the halls of power? Oooh, that there threatens the very bedrock of democracy.
This was not a campaign speech. This was a call for violence.
The “Primitive Technology” channel shows how to process iron from river sand. The level of effort and the raw materials needed in order to produce a *tiny* amount of iron are impressive, but the results show that it can be done at a very low tech level. A bit of refinement and a useful amount of workable iron could be produced on a fairly regular basis by a small family, tribe or village. Why you’d want to go to the bother *today* I’m not so sure, but maybe this sort of thing would be useful for those of a prepper mindset, or planning on colonizing new worlds or time traveling. I’m not here to judge.
A couple months back the same guy showed how to make an iron knife – admitted a bad one, but an iron knife nonetheless – from bacteria. I was *certain* that I’d posted this video, but a concentrated, detailed search of the blog for more than ten seconds did not turn it up. Shrug.
He “fell” out of a sixth-story window of a hospital in Moscow. Fun fact about Maganov: he apparently opposed Putin’s war.
Something people should keep in mind when they think of Putin as anything other than a Soviet thug:
In a speech way back in 2005, he said:
“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said. “As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory”
Yeah, the well-deserved and long overdue end of the Soviet Union caused chaos for the Russian people. But to declare it as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century is really saying something. He’s saying that the loss of power and prestige of the USSR was worse than:
1) The Russian loss in WWI
2) The Bolshevik Revolution
3) The extermination of the Kulaks
4) The Holodomor
5) the gulag system
6) Dozens of millions of Russians/Soviets getting wiped out in WWII
7) The Russian mess in Afghanistan
8) Chernobyl
9) Friggen’ *Communism*
All of those are less “catastrophic” than, say, Latvia and Ukraine and Estonia getting to live out from under the Kremlins thumb in Putin’s view. Any wonder he’s launched a world-threatening genocidal war?
And in ironic claims that did not age well:
In an apparent response to foreign allegations that Russia has been backtracking on democracy, Putin said Russia’s main political task was to develop as a free, democratic nation with European ideals. He stressed that individual freedoms would not be compromised by strengthening the state.
Unlike a lot of quickly-enraged people, I’m willing to wait for some sort of investigation. Nevertheless, this *sure* looks like the guy pulled the trigger unintentionally to me. Which is not a good thing. It is, and should be, career limiting for a police officer.