June 22, 2020

Wait. There's a TAG for That?

Someone sent this J-List link to me saying, "I found that game you got that cute snake girl from!" 


Uhh? What? 
Oh. 
Actually, I've never played the game and got the image from Danbooro, which was how I was able to credit the artist when I used Hygieia the cute snekgrrl as a reaction image or something....years ago.

But that's not important now. We live in a world where there's actually a category for Tsundere Lamias. I don't know how to think about that. 


Note: November Sierra Foxtrot Whiskey

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Oh. So THAT'S What it Means

The protestors in Seattle are annoyed by the moniker that the media has assigned them (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or C.H.A.Z.). And to be fair, CHAZ is silly. To rectify this public relations problem they have demanded that they be referred to as C.H.O.P. (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest). This did not seem like an improvement to me but it turns out that C.H.O.P. has the advantage of honesty, as this fellow in the embedded video helpfully explains.  "Does anybody here know what happened to the people who did not get on board with the French Revolution?” to which the crowd cheers "CHOP!"



Original video source is Shelby Talcott's Twitter :

I've got a degree in History. Trust me when I say that this is bad
No doubt you are now reading up on The French Revolution, particularly The Terror. However, I suggest you, gentle reader, also read a bit about the Spanish Civil War, the Maoist Cultural Revolution, and Salem Witch Trials.  This movement has similarities to each of those manias, which all were catastrophic for the affected populations.  


...and for those who think this can't affect those of us in the hinterlands if these people win, here is a Quillette article on what for us is a relevant subset of The Terror...The Rape of the Vendee'.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that we go ahead and call them what they want to be called here, for clarity's sake.

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June 20, 2020

Wait. W...W....WWhat?



Wait...strong female characters?
Space marines?
Unflattering depiction of evil corporate weasels?
What in this film is wrong today!?

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June 19, 2020

In Current Year...

...basically anything involving diversity, societal reflection and justice is easily dismissed as claptrap or worse, because so many of those who embrace those descriptors are dishonest, stupid or of malign intent.


This is unfortunate because there are some things that fall under those headings that are well and truly worth celebrating.



Happy Juneteenth everybody!

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June 15, 2020

Opposites Attract

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Follow Up to an Earlier Posts Regarding the Home Front


Art by Alan Dunn


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June 07, 2020

Year of the Rat

As I scroll through the rolodex of creative and stimulating distractions that 2020 has graciously provided us with,  I blundered into this article from two weeks ago, which indicates that the rats in our major cities are becoming desperate and aggressive due to the lack of the foetid garbage piles decorating back alleys; this being a result of the lockdown. Hopefully, this plague of rats will be mitigated somewhat by the riots and ensuing opening up....of all the burned out businesses. 


Sitting here staring at that last sentence, I wondered aloud "Dear God, What else can go wrong?"

...and just like that my prayer was answered. 

 

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June 06, 2020

The Speech Not Given 76 Years Ago Today

Eisenhower went into D-Day with two speeches written. One by his staff, and one by him. The latter was, thankfully, unneeded. 



 "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops,My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air, and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”


More on this here



The aftermath of the victory on the beach called Omaha. 

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June 04, 2020

They're in Our Kitchenz....Optimizin' Our Omelets

Over at IEEE Spectrum they have an article on a robot that learns from its user's reactions and generate perfect omelets. An interesting article, that focuses on the potential of advanced machine learning, it does raise some questions. How many eggs must our robot overlords break to make what they believe to be the perfect omelet? Perhaps, if we knew the answer to that question, we would count ourselves among Those Who Walk Away From Omelets. 

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June 02, 2020

What Else is Happening in the World?

Certain developments that we're all following closely but are sick of hearing about have been getting the vast majority of coverage. Wonder what is getting missed?


Here are a few things. 

The U.S. has agreed to sell Taiwan  some Mark 48 torpedoes. Advanced heavyweight torpedoes are the purview of only a few nations and most countries that make them have declined to sell them to Taiwan in recent years for fear of annoying Coronastan. The deal has actually been in the works since 2016, but has been delayed four years. However, for some reason, the U.S. seems to no longer be concerned about the feelings of the Middle Kingdom anymore. 

High in the Himalayas, the situation between India and China continues to deteriorate


In west central Africa, measels and Winnie the Flu are being joined by....Ebola

See!? I'm still relevant!

Anthropomorphizing diseases is open to criticism of course, but honestly, when geologists are anthropomorphizing volcanoes I don'wanna hear it. 

In Mexico, 10 policemen on assignment to escort some potential investors in a small town vanished after completing their assignment along with numerous civilians. 


Activision's CEO has revealed himself to be afflicted by multiple personality disorder

After looking at designs from the U.S. and around the world, The U.S. Navy has finally picked a wining frigate design and paid Italian company Fincanteri for the rights to build these new frigates here...wait..this is good news. Is that allowed?

In the South Atlantic, a large magnetic anomaly (basically a gap in the earth's magnetic field) is growing and moving. Now it's been doing this for decades so this would not be news normally, except that the approved experts are saying "At present, there's nothing to be alarmed about. "...so given experts track record this year, obviously something is terribly wrong and will become apparent in about 90 days so we should all madly buy toilet paper for some reason. 

Or not. 

Stay safe everybody. 

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Well. This Day is Off to a Good Start.

This morning instead poaching eggs for breakfast I decided to pour a bowl of raisin bran. This is, theoretically, a simple operation that involves depositing the cereal in a bowl and adding milk to it (in that order...this is important). However, the difference between theory and practice is that there is no difference between theory in practice in theory, but in practice there is. For example: I discovered this morning a heretofore unknown failure mode in the aforementioned culinary preparation operation wherein the plastic bag containing the raisin bran partially falls out of the cardboard box  into the bowl at precisely the length and weight distribution that when one rights the box, the bag and its contents are launched into the air free of the box with a rotation imparted on the bag of sufficient velocity that centrifugal forces completely empty the bag of raisin bran slowly enough that the bag has rotated a full 360 degrees before becoming empty but fast enough that the raisin bran has sufficient velocity to distribute itself evenly to the farthest extent of the kitchen and halfway into the dining room. 


An hour later, I think I got it all. 

Upon reflection, I should, perhaps, reassess my risk analysis before driving to the bank later today. 

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June 01, 2020

Various Things

Do I stop and film the many many clusters of many police cars with their blinky lights on, or speed away?


I've consistently chosen "B".

Last night was the first night since Thursday that I haven't heard prolonged gunfire, including automatic gunfire, near my house so that's a plus. 


Internet's been better today though.

I was on vacation this month, but I'm only taking today and tomorrow, because we're working basically double shifts and are shorthanded at work. 

Here, have a sack of cute:



Cheer up. This too will pass.  And there's now a dinosaur on the space station

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May 30, 2020

And the Weather Cooperated



This is the first time in 11 years that the U.S. has launched astronauts into space on a U.S. rocket, from U.S. soil. Even more impressive, it's a private company providing a launch service which opens up vast possibilities for future space endeavors. 

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May 29, 2020

Meanwhile: At the Space-X Testing Facility





"No. No this is good! Musk and his crackerjack engineers are squeezing all the extra 'splodies out of the out of his new rocket before putting people on it." 

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May 27, 2020

Another Gut-Wrenching Attack on Freedom and Progress by the Weathermen


One of our Crack Team of Science Babes explains what mischief was perpetrated to scrub the first U.S. manned space launch in 11 years...


"Stoopid tornado warning....being issued for absolutely no reaso..."



"Oh."



If the rocket isn't sucked up to OZ, then NASA and Space-X will try again Saturday at 3:22 EST.

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May 25, 2020

Remember

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Alright: We Need to Quarantine All the ArchDukes Until We can Figure Out What The Hell Is Going On

Since there is nothing going on right now that might warrant the Politburo's attention, China is having a border clash with India. 


This started two weeks ago when news reports described a cross border skirmish between the two nuclear powers. After reading the articles, we at Brickmuppet Blog decided not to post on it at the time because it was in fact a fist fight between some enlisted troops in the neutral zone... (Guardian headline accuracy > CNN) this did not seem to rise to the level of "BORDER SKIRMISH". However, now things are escalating

Yet another battle occurred May 5 in the Pangong Tso Lake area when an estimated 250 Indian and Chinese army personnel fought with iron rods, sticks, and stones. Soldiers on both sides sustained injuries.

"Wait. What?"

Fortunately, they appear to be escalating slowly, from fists to rocks and now rebar. If they don't reach a  diplomatic solution soon, I give it no more than another week before they break out the bows, arrows and edged weapons.  I suspect that both sides may already be secretly fabricating trebuchets in anticipation of further escalation. 


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How Quick It Comes (Updated)

Monday, my sister's in-laws were visited by their daughter wearing a respirator and wielding scissors. She cut their hair, dropped off some medicine and was relieved that they were fine.


Tuesday, my sister's father in law had a cold and developed a terrible headache. 

Wednesday, he was having difficulty breathing and tried to get a doctors appointment but was told that he could not bee seen.

Thursday he could not walk unassisted and his daughter and wife took him to the ER where he was put in intensive care. By that evening he was in a coma with COVID-19. His prognosis is grim. 

My sister's mother-in-law has been told to stay home pending tests, but has many Wu-Flu including headache, flu-like aches and blue toes. Why they won't let her into the hospital is unclear. Her daughter, who one would expect would be quarantined for two weeks at this point, was told that her test had come back negative and she did not need to self isolate...because apparently the doctors in North Carolina do not understand the concept of incubation periods. 

The Xi JinPox lingers for weeks without symptoms but spreading itself to the for winds, and  when it manifests itself, it can take you down quick.



Look.
While the lockdown certainly has to end, masks still need to be worn and those who decide to go to high traffic venues need to avoid the old and frail, at least when they are without  a mask.  A mask is not a civil rights violation. It does little good to protect its wearer, but its effect in aggregate in slowing the spread of infections is profound and that they can work better than the lockdowns themselves is now proven by testing on a national scale


How to make people understand that this lack of hygiene  is not mere defiance of unreasonable authority but an abdication of civic responsibility is difficult, especially when those who are most vocal about demanding that this be done are those who never turn down an opportunity exercise  some petty power over us. 

But the case has to be made, so I'll give it a go, as bluntly, rudely, crudely and in a manner as non-compliant with the establishment's gestalt as I possibly can. 

Those who are refusing to do the most basic hygiene steps are not just abdicating their civic responsibility, they are no different from the bug-chasers who spread AIDS though their community and beyond because they would not be dissuaded from frequenting bathouses and doing unhygienic things.  So wear a mask...or you're a fag. 

UPDATE: So...re-reading the post a day later...Yeah. I should probably not hit "post" when I'm upset, in pain, and on a muscle relaxant. 

Suffice it to say that I think masks in shops and on public transit are a very good idea right now.  

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May 24, 2020

Another 2020 Headline

Pig Poops out a Pedometer, Starts a Fire.




After reading the article, it appears that the actual story is exactly what it says on the tin.

 

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That Does It

I've gotta re-enlist in the Coast Guard now.


Hat Tip...Scott Lowther

It looks like the Royal Marines have figured out a technological replacement with the Jacob's Ladder and Grappling Hooks. 

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