I have nougat damn idea.
Year: 2024
Laid Back
When you’re just chillin’, and taking out some hostiles.
Scenes of Trench Warfare in the Age of Drones.
The Math Says It’s Getting Harder to Break Into the American Middle Class.
Lasers, Microwaves, Missiles, Guns Not On The Table For Domestic Drone Defense. Jesus Christ. We must do better.
Trump Thinks America Wants His Perversions.
Skills Social
Talking with the teens and it becomes clear to me that:
– no one is talking about how to acquire social skills
– all the old "practice this in smaller/less important arenas" customs that used to give people a chance to use new social skills have been dismantled
– the kids often…— M.C.A Hogarth (@mcahogarth) October 30, 2024
And they tell me smartphones and social media are not generally harmful. It’s funny, I was criticized (rightly, in many cases) for how poor my social skills were until I improved them, but by comparison to younger millennials and Gen Z I was a social genius. Anyone under ~30 has just absolutely atrocious social capability. It’s shocking when you encounter it.
We’ve failed an entire generation and a half now.
I Need One B-1
BA BONE footage sent to me by a friend. pic.twitter.com/TsiTHp0gFt
— Combat Learjet (@Combat_learjet) October 31, 2024
Those B-1s are such beautiful aircraft. I saw one flying around here last year and I still talk about it sometimes.
Carly or Something
The was some sf book I read where a Sydney Sweeney-like starlet gets chosen for some publicity space mission, but a disaster happens so she does scary space stuff and people are surprised she’s brave and not a complete prat? What fucking book was that?
Goddamn I’ve read too many books. I think the book would be 10-15 years old now.
Till Don’t
The thing you figure out over the course of getting a lot hotter over a short time is that women are just as shallow as men (if not more so), they just hide it better.
Till they don’t.
Time Cost
Seems reasonable to me; she’s one of the most popular people in the world. Her time is extremely valuable. If you want it, you gots to pay. That’s just how it is. I’d probably charge even more to limit the events I was obligated to do.
Reshore
The calculation China is running now — even apart from the election — is how far it can build up its military before America significantly reshores enough manufacturing to be able to fight an extended war.
This is what matters to the conflict that is coming; this is the make or break. It is a race most of us here in the US do not even know we’re running, but we are. If we can restore enough domestic manufacturing capability before China determines it’s ready to fight, we’ll come out ahead. If not, China will take Taiwan and eventually Philippines and the territory of other allies.
And right now, it’s not looking good for us.
Upgraded
This vid will piss a lot of people off and is half in “YouTube Voice” so it’s quite annoying, but it’s mostly true. Having done a similar upgrade myself, it has been odd and revealing to be treated as fully human by women now.
Women hug me randomly now in settings they never would’ve before. I had a woman at the DMV call and stay on hold for me with the DMV HQ for 20 minutes after I flirted with her and batted my eyelashes a little. She also waived all my fees. That never would’ve happened before my appearance changed. Not a freakin’ chance. When I am up to being charming and wear a tight shirt, there’s about a 98% chance I get what I want if there is a woman at the front desk or anywhere can she see me.
And it does also make me a little bitter.
Blu DeTiger – Figure It Out
That bass playing is so good.
Free Free Verse
There are seven tales
And seven wonders
A kingdom alone
And a sound of thunder
Nothing destroyed is wholly gone
And nothing broken
Can’t be split further asunder
There’s a dreaming in the hills
An echo long ringing
And through the valley it spills
Like a drowned choir’s singing
Each time on stopping in this sunlit place
I feel the darkness bleeding in from space
Phoned Out
Do You Miss Headphone Jacks on Phones?
Every fucking day. Worst change ever. I sometimes don’t call people I otherwise want to call because I cannot make wireless bullshit work correctly or at all and I can’t find my adapter to have real headphones work.
What a stupid terrible unnecessary generally harmful clownish change.
The 1600s Were a Watershed for Swear Words.
Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean.
Inside a Firewall Vendor’s 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices.
As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach. Ha, that’s not gonna happen.
Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, LA Times show what life under a dictator is really like.
Science Fictions links for October 2024.
US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities.
Company made me do free labor, mad when I didn’t let them keep it.
Israel Inflicted Severe Damage on Iran’s Missile Program and Air Defenses.