Arty of War

Damn. Looks like all arty fire to me, combination of high explosive and incendiary rounds (that’s what I’d put downrange anyway). That is some accurate fire. Wonder how far away those artillery pieces are. Excellent targeting and fire control.

Like What

I think this is quite related. Easy to be a prude and not interested in sex if both you and all your potential parters look like a dumpster. You’re both embarrassed of your own unsightliness and unattracted to others. Of course a lot of the new prudishness is related to obesity.

Bannage

One of the reasons I run and post to my blog regularly still is that I don’t last on regular forums and online spaces. I get banned. The mods are probably right to do so. I am disruptive and I make people angry, even though I rarely break forum rules and don’t really engage in inciting behavior.

I’m unrelenting and good at argument, though, and that’s enough to get me shitcanned. I have no regrets. If I’m not getting banned, I’m probably not thinking. And if I’m not getting banned, I’m probably wrong. Being right against group “wisdom” is the single quickest way to get thrown out a space.

Savvy That

The “Farmer’s Daughter BBS” produces barely any Google results at all, and none relevant on the first page of results if you search without quotes, but this BBS was extremely popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was a porn-sharing BBS. I dialed into it a few times, mainly to get things for friends who knew I was computer-savvy (they paid me for it). I had not heard or thought of that name in nearly 30 years.

In the course of searching for that, I found this book that looks interesting: The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media by Kevin Driscoll.

Right and Wrong

Basically my assessment too, so no need to write it up separately. (And as usual, Mark is correct and Ian Welsh is wrong, wrong, wrong.)

Giving up ground to an enemy that is not well-led and not well-supplied but has a lot of firepower is exactly the right thing to do. That enemy cannot hold it even if they can take it.

Ceres

Me too! I should’ve mentioned that in my mini-review of the Terra Ignota series.

Big Baby Energy

Elon Musk is one of those people where hatred of or love for the person says far more about those doing the worshipping or the loathing than it does anything about Elon himself.

To me, he’s a dude that does some cool stuff sometimes and acts like a big baby half the time. I don’t love him or loathe him. He exists within the exploitative hypercapitalistic system we’ve allowed to fester here, so it’s not surprising he is mostly a product of that. Within that system, he’s better than others because he actually achieves real things in the world sometimes rather than just financial engineering.

I bet the primary animus by those who deeply hate him though is just anger that he does anything in the real world rather than fucking around with spreadsheets. That causes some true rage among the PMC type libs.

Ever Out

More is possible than people wish were possible, because possibility is a spur to action. And it’s easier to sit on the couch and claim anything not currently achieved is ever out of reach.

Fortunately, the new world is not created by the couch-addicted Fat Acceptance type clowns.

Socially

Most of the tweets have been deleted now, and articles, but it was also fun when in February and early March of 2020, it was “racist” to social distance and wear masks.

Lie Back

Yeah. It’s fucking bizarre; the “lie back and think of England” approach to your country being destroyed.