I love C&Rsenal as well. No over the top ridiculousness.

Just Othias discoursing on his research into the obscure corners of firearms development.

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Lots and lots of the same people making the same arguments and not adjusting presumptions or positions as the world changes.

There is an interesting break between high-policy nonproliferation & day-to-day implementation of export controls, etc. implementation of nonproliferation.

🙄 "I'm 175 years old and these are my 9,578 secrets for a long life" have to be one of the more ridiculous article regularly published.

Unless your "secret" is drinking the blood of unwilling victims & avoiding the sun you have no fucking idea how you lived so long.

Speaking of fun Amazon quirks.

The suggested items when you search for powdered aluminum are interesting.

And arguably rather irresponsible.

Microsoft really doesn’t want you deleting the extremely annoying copilot button in Edge that they have very carefully placed to enable it to be accidentally clicked.

Hard to imagine that the President idly, and spontaneously musing about his potential place in heaven, or not, is a sign pointing to near-term future political stability.

Especially given this isn’t the first time, and reporters aren’t around him all the time.

Apparently Atlanta has an incentive program for tow trucks to be on site for highway crashes within 30 minutes.

It puzzles me cos I remember towies hovering like vultures over a sickly animal on a sunny day.

Folks generally don’t take the dangers posed by dogs seriously enough.

“Oh, he doesn’t bite.”

BS! They’re socialized predators, at best.

They ALL bite under the right stimuli.

So I’m puzzled. Its not the US even has a significant commercial shipping sector.

Is it something mundane like the US is a major supplier of bunker fuel?

Or just ideological?

When people say contemporary politics is about memes, etc. it misses that this is just the publicly visible element of political activity.

There’s still a whole level of old-school backroom backslapping politics going on that the masses never see.

Given we are, amongst other things, living through a modern ship-money crisis, it’s hardly inappropriate that we also see a 17th century style assigning of princes to pieces of the economy.

So many modern documentaries are filled with large quantities of dead air, with actual content paced at a rate that might challenge a sloth.

How long until the Trump administration seeks assistance from Liz Sherman & Abe Sapien in its War on Frogs.

They have relevant experience.

So many fail videos involving bicycles or motorized bikes involve the same instigating mistake.

Not keeping your feet on the pedals / pegs.

I was just whining about this shit a couple of days ago.

How is installing and getting to use a printer a shittier experience in 2025 than it was in 2005?

At least back then they gave you a disc with the drivers.

This one example above should be an incredibly low bar in terms of finding support, but nothing in the real world supports that dream.

Not from the voting public, not from politicians, and certainly not from the LEO community itself.

Once again, a much needed reform in the USA is a package to eliminate effective impunity for LEOs.

e.g.: Fired & national ban on rehire for dishonesty, such as lying to get a warrant, lying in court, lying on an affidavit.

Unfortunately effectiveness would require LEO mindset changes as well, so 🙄

All of the above does sound suspiciously specific.

Image of Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi, both elegantly dressed, standing in front of a red patterned wall in a promotional image for the British TV show, Vicious.

I really don't know how they managed to cast Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi in an incredibly conventional and cheesy British sitcom, but whoever was behind the effort was a genius.

Watching Gandalf & the Master playing off each other as super campy old lovers dreaming of never-were careers is gold.

Which is sad, because there is also the glory that is Stargate.

But, it’s a roller coaster with Roland. There’s Stargate & Independence Day, but also DAT & Godzilla & 10,000 BC

One fun glitch for me is that I constantly default to thinking it’s a Roland Emmerich movie.

But the actual Emmerich climate movie (Day After Tomorrow) is so much less fun.

Glorious variant movie poster for The Core with Hikary Swank, Aaron Eckart, etc. Poster features the Golden Gate bridge being destroyed. At least its not New York.

Big shout out to this movie.

The folks making the core knew what it was and weren’t afraid to lean in.

Yay the Core.

It knew what it was and wasn’t afraid to lean in.

Heard about Inversion ARC.

OMFG this is so going to be destabilizing if their proposed dreams of an “orbital warehouse” comes close to being fulfilled.

Somehow, it’s 2025, and installing a printer on a new laptop is as shitty an experience as it was in 2000.

I really enjoy the Toyota Corolla’s CVT and do not understand CVT hate.

As long as you don’t stomp on it you get smooth consistent powerful enough acceleration without jerky fussing.

How humans managed to successfully (ymmv) domesticate pigs escapes me.

That’s SO weird.

Like a runaway dog doesn’t physically turn into a wolf or a coyote.

Pigs are alarmingly freaky.

So whats the over/under on when Barron is jetting off to a foreign country with one of Trump’s courtiers to get arrested wooing a Princess?