Day: October 18, 2024, 11:10 PM
Desp Mis
Anyway, winter sucks. We should change its name to “Painful Hell Season of Despair and Misery.”
Lexi
It really is. Anyway, terms like “summer” and “winter” are always relevant and true if you just figure out where the event is taking place. Shouldn’t be hard. We simply cannot (and should not even try to) excise anything and everything potentially (usually not really) exclusionary from our lexicon as then we’d not be able to discuss anything at all.
In the future all dates should be given in all calendars, including the Elven Calendar, the French Republican Calendar, and by Stardate. You know, to be inclusionary.
Incap
It’s pretty obvious from watching and listening to Trump that he’s gone downhill even more than Biden has. Politics aside, he’s not fit to be president simply for health and mental capacity reasons.
If you vote for Trump, your actual prez will be J.D. Vance whether or not he holds that title officially.
Self-Inflicted
Support for Immigration in Canada Plunges to Lowest in Decades.
Canada is committing suicide partially with over-immigration. Also with doing nothing about their completely broken housing market. But both contribute and reinforce one another.
Close Approach
During a Russian attack on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, a Russian BTR with infantry approaches a Ukrainian tank and receives a point-blank tank shot.https://t.co/VtOEC3Rdnm pic.twitter.com/grconBIqXv
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 16, 2024
Every time I watch crap like this, I do not understand what the fuck the Russians are doing. Why did they just roll up on an enemy tank? Why do their main guns never fire? What was the purpose of any of that?
I know the Russians might eventually win just on mass of materiel, personnel and outside help (China, North Korea) but damn they are not smart. My guess is that the Russians thought the tank was completely disabled (it at least partially is, as it’s smoking and never maneuvers as well as never using the coax gun), but approaching a known enemy tank that is not confirmed dead is FUCKING SUICIDE.
As we can see.
Pyre Uh See
Sometimes when you sail the high seas, you end up procuring not what you’d expect. I was trying to acquire the movie Universal Language earlier.
I got it, opened it…and it’s a POV VR porn of some kind. I fast forwarded through it to see if anything interesting even happened and, as expected, nope. Dang. Time to put on my eye-patch and summon my trusty parrot companion and try again.
Knowing the Future
The other day, I saw some clown in a now-lost article claiming that only psychotic people go to the Combat Footage sub-Reddits and places like that. While I am sure that there are some of those types there certainly, many of us go there to see what the present and future of war will be like. Because there will be war or at least the threat of it — that seems a human constant. If it’s not with Russia or China (for the US), it will be with some other entity.
Is it so hard to imagine that a lot of people view combat footage to try to forestall those future wars and instead of being psychopaths, are working to bring about peace with the knowledge of what might occur? For many, it appears even thinking about war — or having anyone else ponder it — is a norms violation. But not considering what might happen is also very dangerous as then you cannot prevent it nor prepare for it.
In the movie version of LOTR, Éowyn says, “Those without swords can still die upon them.” There, she was arguing for why women should be allowed to go into battle. In our world, her observation applies: those who don’t care about drones and AI-based drone swarms can still be killed by them. In this world we don’t need to teach everyone to fight, but attempting to understand how war works now and how it will play out in the not-too-distant future will be key to perhaps preventing that war from occurring at all or making it a much shorter affair.
Brothers, sisters, sometimes we must study war to ensure the peace.
Goth as FUCKKKKKKK
I enjoy sleep paralysis and I also like nightmares. And I am completely serious about both of those things.
Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents.
Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin for 86% of Patients.
Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There’s No Security Backdoor That’s Only For The “Good Guys.”
Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates. ‘We’re going to pay for it,’ experts say. What the actual fuck.
The October Surprise May Be Arriving Shortly.
Astronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. Look at it, just skulking around out there.
Nose Candy
He went from moving on snow to moving snow. A difference of a few little letters can make for quite a big career change.
Looks like it’s all downhill for him now, though. I bet he’s pretty piste off.
The Bobby Lees – Dig Your Hips
Love the dirty-ass bass. She has a unique playing style. The whole thing is great, really.
Heartworms – Warplane
Really like this song and video. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that it is hard to go wrong with weird goth girls and an ominous yet appealing melody.