The video quality is terribly potato, but the reactions are remarkably spot-on. I’ve watched these two from time to time and their reactions to things can be hit or miss (they just didn’t *get* “Airplane”), but their response to “Field of Dreams” is precisely as it aught to be. It’s aided by the fact that they went into this apparently cold, having no knowledge of the movie.
This was a remarkable movie. “Is this Heaven? No, it’s Iowa” was all over the place back in the day… of course, I lived right next to Iowa when this came out and soon enough spent four years getting edumacated there.
Roscosmos showed a model of the new orbital station. At present, RKK Energia continues to work on the draft design of the station.#Roscosmospic.twitter.com/YaBMBLqrSR
A lot of people have, for a number of years, seen the future economy as probably splitting in two: those who dare have politically incorrect views being deplatformed and unbanked. When it’s only a tiny minority, those people are utterly screwed: unable to get a job or do business because of the woke mob, their future is bleak. But the wider the baying hounds of cultural decay cast their net, the larger the population of people they separate from the economy… the larger the population of people who can form their *own* economy. And if an alternate economy gets set up and survives the inevitable attacks, the less relevant cancel culturists become.
An example of this alternate economy is a new app called “PublicSq,” which matches up customers with local businesses. That’s not a new type of app, but for a business to get onto the app, they have to agree to a set of “core values:”
We believe The United States of America is a free country, a net-positive to the world at large, and is worth protecting.
We believe the Constitution & Bill of Rights are essential and must be prioritized and respected.
We believe in a limited government system that “represents” constituents, instead of “ruling over” them.
We believe in the sanctity and importance of the family unit, including the protection of the unborn.
We see people for who they are, not for their skin color, gender, or ethnicity. We believe that we ought to be judged not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.
We believe in a free-market system of economics that prioritizes the voluntary exchange of goods between consumers and the businesses they patronize; free from as much government intervention as possible.
We believe in the rights of individuals to take responsibility for their own health choices. (ie. we stand against vaccine mandates and vaccine passports).
A long and verbose discussion of the app is here:
There are lots of people who specifically seek out “black owned” or “LGBTQ friendly” or “I Support Current Thing” businesses. It’s inevitable that other people will make other choices. It could well be that the end result of “progressive” policies and bullying is a return to segregation much more stark and complete than anything supported by Jim Crow Democrats.
Additionally: a fully functional alternative economy might well run on alternative finances… bitcoin or barter or who-knows-what. That would be a problem for the IRS. Makes ya wonder if that might be a part of the reason why they suddenly decided to hire themselves a private army.
There are a *lot* of lessons to be learned from Russias ongoing war. One being: don’t post your location on social media, especially if the enemy *really* wants you dead and has access to long range precision ordnance.
UPDATE: Huh. The video is now private. This seems to be because the video has been updated:
Interestingly, one of the video clips that was removed showed a soldier just walking along… a soldier with a *US* flag patch on his shoulder. Whether that means that was actually irrelevant footage of a US solider somewhere else (Afghanistan?) or a mercenary with a US patch… dunno.
So California and the rest of the southwest have been dealing with a “megadrought.” California responds to it with fires and riots and water bans and mass lootings (some of those are perennial California favorites drought or no drought). But now they have something new to complain about:
Claim is that thanks to climate change (remember: the carbon dioxide being burped into the atmosphere these days is disproportionately at the hands of China and India) a weather event that floods all of central California could come in the next 40 years and could recur every 50 years or so. If that’s the case, California would do well to prepare: Excavate new, vast reservoirs. Build aqueducts from likely flood zones to rivers and that great big ocean they’re sitting next to.
Hey, here’s a thought: rather than renaming the disease, how about you tell people in important risk categories to stop being dumbasses and keep it in their pants for a month or two?
You might note that I’ve never plastered permanent Ukraine flag banners or Pride Month or BLM flags or any such. I wonder if my failure to do so might have hurt my business opportunities with certain groups and individuals that require such displays of insincere allegiance. So… here’s a first tentative step towards rectifying that, by posting some things I fully support:
What else should an enlightened feller such as myself glom onto?
