The standard Hollywood “quick sand” is plain water with a layer of vermiculite floating on top. It crops up so often in movies and it’s always one of the hallmarks of a truly bad film – what director has to reach for such a hackneyed plot device, anyway?
It seems to me that the US government’s (and its politicians’) stance on China is contradictory. That should be no surprise, right?
I’m sure you’ve seen pictures of the royals in military fig. They look pretty impressive, don’t they?
As you know, I’m a gamer. My recent play-list includes Cyberpunk 2077 (what a disappointment: a mediocre game with too much Keanu Reeves in it) and Fallout 4 (in survival mode). Fallout’s survival mode is how the game should be played – it’s much more “realistic” if that makes any sense. But its ending was horrible and really pissed me off. I needed a decent gaming experience. Oh, and somewhere in there, Anna and I did a bit of co-operative Valheim, which was surprisingly fun.
I don’t have the graphic arts skills, or the patience to do this, and I bet nobody’d play it anyway.
Back in the 70s, my g/f used to wear a T-shirt that bore a feminist/separatist variant of this meme:
This is a good explanation of the inner dynamics of capitalism, that make it suck. [counterpunch]
This is a delightful little book, and I won’t post much from it because it’s so delightful that posting the illustrations would constitute a “spoiler.”
This one is simple: people are (with good justification and for good reason) upset that the US is abandoning its Afghan allies, and (with good justification and for good reason) expect them to be torture-slaughtered as soon as the US military is no longer there to protect them.
As you may recall, I have been planting evil plants back in the strippings. And I rather stupidly forgot to take into account a local Pennsylvania custom: the beer-addled ATV-ride through other people’s property, prior to going and setting off fireworks.