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    Bonaparte at Gettysburg

    This posting has been kicking around in the back of my mind for over a year, and (for reasons that will become clear) it has been difficult to pull together.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 11, 2019
    • Art, War is a Racket

    Bling Bling Boom Boom

    I have made several pairs of these; they turned out surprisingly well and are an easy mold to work with, since it’s open and you can just pour the metal right in. The legality is questionable, unfortunately.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 10, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    Please Don’t Do This

    Yesterday I took a 2×4 and my angle grinder with the diamond cutoff wheel, and snapped a couple of “here’s why not” pictures.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 9, 2019
    • Art, Error Messages

    Perhaps We Were Just the Boost Stage

    Somewhere in the distant future, in the deep reaches of the galaxy, the distant descendants of an uplifted species may wonder if they were created by gods, or if they’re basically a cosmic accident.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 8, 2019
    • Art, Randomness, Technology

    Again, Video Games

    Don’t worry, this is not going to be another of those “video games are not a problem because: Japan” postings; there are plenty of those.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 7, 2019
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    Those Billowing White Clouds

    Once the disaster was underway there wasn’t anything that could stop the consequences. Unfortunately, I’ve seen buildings with lead paint burn, and that weird glabrous smoke was immediately recognizable.

    There was a whole lot of it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 6, 2019
    • Politics, Randomness

    Give It Back!

    White supremacists are up in arms (literally) over the second invasion of Texas.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 5, 2019
    • Politics

    Trump Is Not The Only Problem

    It sickens me to see congress, whose specialty is offering “thoughts and prayers” while taking NRA money, jumping all over Trump’s bloated ass for refusing to contextualize the shootings in Texas and Ohio as “white supremacist terrorism.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 4, 2019
    • Burn it to the ground, Genocide, Guns, rant

    Defeat With Dignity

    The “straight razor challenge” took on a bit of a life of its own, and has finally concluded.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 2, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    When Military Jets Get Feisty

    This story was offered up to me by youtube’s algorithm, because I had been searching for videos about Project Ares.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 1, 2019
    • Technology, War is a Racket
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