Shark Jumping
Supreme Cunt Logic
Machine Gun = Illegal
Gun that works like a machine ≠ illegal.
So now we have Thomas’ fat wife‘s Tom Foolery, Alito’s wife pleasuring herself, not to mention Roberts’ total disregard for the entire shit-show. It’s doubtful there’s much pleasure emanating from Alito’s shriveled-up little crank wanker clear across the bench these days.
– FUCK THEM.
And why? Yes, a deep current of gun fetishism runs through Thomas’ opinion. But so, too, does an arrogant skepticism of federal agencies like ATF and the experts who staff them.
Manifest Destiny for the Win
We could begin solving a number of currently problematic, large-scale issues with this one. Just repatriate the wrongs, finish re-introducing the wolves, cap the oil and gas wells and leave the natives the fuck alone. Or trade and work with them like normally socialized creatures.
Big herds of cattle will disappear, eco-diversity will return, oil will stay in the ground and greenhouse by-products of the most willfully evil colonization the planet has ever seen will start to diminish.
Martha’s Vineyard Got Their Weed
Micro$oft Security
It bears repeating in the context of systems security, here: The difference between smart people and dumb people isn’t that smart people don’t make mistakes. They just don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
M$ has always loomed large as a security issue of one sort or another, to me. Remember Active-X? Macros from hell? The first 10 versions of IIS were so rife with network vulnerabilities you dared not put them online without various certifications first, if you liked your job. More recently they’ve been hosting all sorts of hackers on Azure, and even today, I have to shame them into doing anything.
Whistleblower tells ProPublica about Microsoft’s cybersecurity lapses.
Microsoft President Grilled by Congress Over Cybersecurity Failures.
I’ve not seen enough of the technical details to get how Solawrwinds figured into the mix, but the allegation doesn’t surprise me.
Hey Bucko!
One Way to Prune a Maple Tree
I don’t think I could have taken off much more unless I was actually trying to kill it. These things grow like weeds around here. This guy needed serious reduction therapy after almost overshadowing the nearby blue spruce. It works well for the previously stunted pine tree, and the currently chopped-up maple. They’re both too close to the house.
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Weaponizing Ignorance is a Dangerous Game
And they rant about weaponizing the DOJ. Makes you wonder who you feel comfortable being around armed, right? I’ll take an FBI agent over a drooling fascist sychophant every time. Kinda sucks when you start feeling like there’s just too many mutherfuckers out there needing to be killed.
Advocating illegal acts is itself illegal.
Sagan Channels Asimov
The Cult of Ignorance -Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980
15 years later… “I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Today, it’s the MAGA Trump cult.
William Anders: Earthrise
There’s no doubt Bill Anders’ contributions go well beyond photography. Literally defining the concept of perspective in celestial terms might be a good place to start.
NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut William Anders.
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
“At every step of Bill’s life was the iron will of a pioneer, the grand passion of a visionary, the cool skill of a pilot, and the heart of an adventurer who explored on behalf of all of us. His impact will live on through the generations. All of NASA, and all of those who look up into the twinkling heavens and see grand new possibilities of dazzling new dreams, will miss a great hero who has passed on: Bill Anders.”
Masters of Deceit
No, not Trump.org – the Chinese government, just generally speaking. The tourists weren’t the first people there, and they certainly won’t be the last. It’s also how they do the low-quality manufacturing and network/software stuff. Marginal reality’s good enough for government work.
The hydrologic cycle – what a concept.
Russia 1984
They know it. They’re just powerless to resist.
“This place is sacrosanct,” Dmitry tells me. “For creative young people it’s a place they can come to find like-minded citizens and to get away from what’s happening in our country. It’s a little island of freedom in an unfree environment.”
Tesla Game Over
I just hope the charging network survives to grow in somebody else’s hands. Space-X now also flirts with resource-sensitive delays and related issues. People in the Musk ecosystem need to get a grip before the implosion starts.
…explains why Musk told investors in April that Tesla had spent $1 billion on GPUs in the first three months of this year, almost as much as it spent on R&D, despite being desperate for new models to add to what is now an old and very limited product lineup that is suffering rapidly declining sales in the US and China.
Liar Dissected
It’s been a great exercise in spotting deceit – getting progressively easier, as the MAGA gang become further entangled with their lies in an ongoing futile attempt to re-write reality.
In recent days in his remarks outside the courthouse, in speeches and on social media, Trump repeatedly has made false and misleading statements about the case and trial.
So It’s an “AD Break” Now, Huh?
I’d characterize it as more of a reminder: “we make our money from your personal information.”
Youtoob® has been tightening the advert screws for quite some time. I simply view it as a time-saver. 2nd half of the video just gets skipped now, no biggie.
USA Dementia Test
