Unfortunate demo of some sort of early Photoshop-like software. Late 1980s? Early 1990s?
Jul 312022
Jul 312022
It’s common enough to point and laugh at crazy furriners carrying out government sponsored acts of terrorism against their own people based on arbitrary and generally insane rules and “laws.” Recently a lot of this laughter has been direction Britainland way, and rightly so. But we should remain vigilant lest the more fascistic of Americans, such as the Democrats, get it into their heads to do the same sort of nonsense here. Because, as we’ve seen from the House recently voting to pass a blatantly and admittedly unConstitutional bill banning the transfer of items in common use, they are more than happy to abuse power.
Moment army veteran is arrested ‘for causing anxiety’ after retweeting meme of swastika made out of Pride flags as force is condemned by its own crime commissioner for the ‘proportionality and necessity’ of its response
"Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post, that’s why you’ve being arrested" –@HantsPolice
Read it & weep!😭
The ‘unknown’ can no longer be bullied. You now have a direct line to a group of dedicated people who will help you.@BadLawTeam | @WeAreFairCop pic.twitter.com/qbHcNNEBs8
— The Reclaim Party (@thereclaimparty) July 30, 2022
I do wonder how many of those police officers actually believe they’re doing the right thing, how many don’t care, and how many are actively opposed to this nonsense. This situation is, of course, monumentally stupid. The dude posted this image:
Which somehow caused someone “anxiety.” Why the police should give a rat’s ass that someone has anxiety, I’ve no idea. How they determine that the anxiety caused by a meme is worse/more legally actionable than the anxiety caused by, say, foreign rape gangs or BLM riots or historic statues being torn down or lockdowns or unsolved burglaries, assaults and murders while the police chase down people who post memes, I’ve no idea.
Jul 312022
I *really* hope the pilot can shed some light on this:
Co-pilot falls from plane, dies before emergency landing in North Carolina
A small cargo plane lost a wheel during a hard landing, then continued on to fly for a while before finally doing an emergency landing that seemed to go about as well as you might hope for a cargo plane with a third of its landing gear gone. But the co-pilot *seems* to have decided to chuck himself out of the plane well before then, crashing in a yard some thirty miles from the final airport. Friggen’ *WHY*?
Was he stressed out? Was he on something? Was the initial hard landing his fault, and he knew that it would go bad for his career?
Jul 312022
Star Trek Actress Nichelle Nichols Passes Away Aged 89
Not much detail, but she’s known to have suffered from health issues of late.
Jul 302022
So some friends and I are watching through “Star Trek Discovery.” We’re Trek fans from *decades* back, so it might surprise some that it’s taken us this long to get around to wading through all of STD. We’re well into season three… and we’ve made an important decision.
Star Trek, whether the episode was good or bad, was always pretty much *fun.* But STD is *not* fun. A lot of it is downright painful. So while we’re generally interested to see where the plot goes, the characters themselves are often just nightmarish. So the decision was made to stand by on the Fast Forward button. Someone starts crying? Fast forward. Someone starts a monologue about how awesome someone else is, or any form of emotional validation? Fast forward. That cringy Trill/human “couple?” They show up… fast forward.
We’re getting through episodes *really* fast now. More than anything, this cringe-edited version of STD reminds me of those Super 8 versions of sci-fi movies that were available in the late 1970s.
I remember seeing, circa 1979-1981 or so, a desktop “unit” that had a film cartridge that showed Star Wars boiled down to maybe five minute on a display just a few inches across. Until VHS, that sort of thing was the only way to watch Star Wars on demand. And fast forwarding is the only way to watch STD *at* *all.*
Jul 302022
One ticket in Illinois won the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot of nearly $1.34 billion
If the holder chooses a lump-sum cash option, the ticket will yield a one-time payment of about $780 million.
Drat. Not me.
Jul 302022
Oh, goody.
Monkeypox: First deaths outside Africa in Brazil and Spain
Good thing people are behaving in a rational, intelligent manner and are moderating their voluntary behaviors.
Jul 302022
Well, it’d better be weird.
‘Max Headroom’ Series Reboot Starring Matt Frewer In Works At AMC Networks From Christopher Cantwell & Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision
Matt Frewer is said to be onboard to play Max again. One wonders if the way to go this time will be to use *actual* computer generated characters. That seems obvious… but maybe it’d be appropriately weird to stick with prosthetics.
Jul 292022
In this case, a Stupidity Transmitted Disease.
First, a news video:
The guy with the pox here is said have likely gotten it from going to a bar and “kissing another person.” That’s… a little vague. Fortunately, he’s one of those attention-seekers who goes out looking for clout and ends up being a cautionary tale. Behold:
Gay Houston Man Battling Monkeypox Raises Awareness
“I knew what it was, I knew I was at risk,” he says. “I tried to get the vaccine, but I couldn’t. I thought I was being careful. Clearly, I wasn’t being vigilant enough.”
Over the July Fourth weekend he went to several bars and, while he was shirtless, hugged and kissed a few men. The following weekend, he started seeing little white bumps under his chin.
That’s… that’s just *stupid.* But wait! There’s more!
Wallace is going on a month of prescribed quarantine, but he thinks his lesions will be healed in a week and he will at least be able to leave his house again.
FFS.
So, yeah. Another case of someone going out and actually *working* at catching the latest fashionable disease, then acting shocked. And if it stayed strictly within people who have no sense of self control – men, women, gay, straight, whatever – then… who cares, that’s on them. But these yahoos could well come into contact with, say, children. And children come into contact with *other* children. And viruses mutate, and the more people who have a virus, the more opportunities for mutation.
People this frikken’ dumb could doom us all.
Jul 292022
This incident appears to have occurred while the plane was still on the ground (what looks like ground crew dealing with it). Some sources say Spirit Airlines, some Allegiant. It seems to me that this sort of thing used to be a lot rarer.
Crazy Spirit Airlines fight from the air. What has been your worst in flight experience and what carrier were you traveling? #spirit #spiritairlines #fight pic.twitter.com/qIj2Qwhgxa
— Belinda Post (@Belinda_Post) July 25, 2022