Ever Crooked

Five technological achievements! (That we wonโ€™t see any time soon.)

The usual clownishness from that shit site.

This is political, as all such things like this inevitably are. The reality is we could go to Mars in 10-12 years and set up a small colony if we threw a trillion dollars at it. This idiot just dislikes Musk and since he’s associated with Mars aspirations, worthless crap like this dribbles out from the intellectually challenged.

Superconductors are irrelevant and aren’t magic, so who gives a damn.

Fusion power is probably possible and if we crack it, great. If not, also who cares. We already have the sun.

New physics? Maybe, maybe not. We’d do better applying the physics we already know about.

Asteroid mining is not really needed but if it were, we could do it. At the moment it’s pointless.

And airships are also a big who gives a crap.

This reminds me of reading articles from around 1900 or so that talked about how heavier-than-air flight was impossible and that no one would ever travel that way. They also made a lot of other extremely-confident extremely-wrong predictions about things that would “never happen.”

Worthless.

Deserving It

“Too uncool to deserve the stars.” Dang, that hits hard. Degrowther nonsense really does have us puling like an infant after someone takes its binky away.

Even easy things are now claimed to be “nerd fantasy” by people whose greatest fantasy is snarfing another doughnut. Fucking Christ, we deserve to lose.

Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Koreaโ€™s investments.

The Scam Called โ€œYou Don’t Have to Remember Anything.โ€

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning.

USAFโ€™s Quicksink Ship-Killing Smart Bomb Seen In Detail Like Never Before.

COVID-19 no longer a top 10 killer as US death rate returns to normal. So much for “civilization-ending.”

Free Will is Not Just a Verbal Dispute.

The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism. Trumponomics isnโ€™t about economics. Itโ€™s about creating pain and demanding tribute.

Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

US warns Chinese hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure.

Murder Toll

UHC CEO murders: 200,000+

Charlie Kirk murders: 0

Big damn difference. So why is that disparity surprising? I barely know anything about Kirk, but he was not in the murder business even if I found most of his political views objectionable.

Knowing One

A lot of places outside of America are like that, especially in the less-developed world. It’s about who you know and if you can pay the bribe. We crossed the border from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan back in ’97 because we had cash and someone knew someone, not because we had any documents (we did not).

We also had guns in our faces. I don’t think they would’ve shot us if we’d just turned around. But you never know.

The Clue to Unlocking Parkinsonโ€™s May Be All Around Us.

California considers allowing doctors to prescribe abortion drugs anonymously. Good.

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker. Correct.

NASA discovers โ€˜clearest sign of life that weโ€™ve ever found on Mars.โ€™

The Kremlinโ€™s plot to kill NATOโ€™s credibility.

Chinese trade is thriving despite Americaโ€™s attacks.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal.

Where Did the Smurfs Get Their Hats? I don’t smurfin’ know!

Probe Po

Vladimir Putinโ€™s dangerous drone probe is a moment of truth for NATO. Polandโ€™s prime minister warns of โ€œopen conflictโ€ with Russia.

All the good little liberals said this would “never happen” and there was “no reason” to increase defense spending.

You mean…they were smoking all the available crack rocks? Huh. Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia will attempt to roll across Poland in 2-5 years.