One of the great things about FTB is that nobody can imagine PZ Myers rolling around on the floor in a pile of money, collected from this blogging network, muttering, “mine all mine! oh! a spider!” You’re helping a dedicated community of people like yourself, i.e.: its for your own good. We’re your people.
This is to help defray FTB’s legal debts from Richard Carrier’s defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below:
This is to help defray FTB’s legal debts from Richard Carrier’s defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below:
This is to help defray FTB’s legal debts from Richard Carrier’s defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below:
For those of you who think that 2020 is the worst year ever, consider the possibility that there is no bottom to how bad things can get.
It appears that an ancient smith in Persia was making steel that was close, in today’s terms, to what we’d call “stainless steel.” The question is whether that was lucky, or intentional, or both.
I don’t like to paint. Yet, so many times, I start a project the ends with a couple of coats of paint.
Donald Trump is so ignorant and illiterate that apparently his aides read their briefing notes aloud, to him, like he’s a child with no attention-span. So, I can be sure that – if he’s ever held a copy of a book – he probably hasn’t delved past the cover.
When I started seeing stories about this, my immediate reaction is “someone’s lying.” That’s a given, because exaggerating things just a bit is built into every part of the fabric of US military procurement. As is secrecy, greed, and other bits of Lovecraftian evil. So, take everything here with a grain of salt because public information is mighty thin, right now.
Currently, I am in the process of making a small batch (4) of kiridashi. It’s a pretty strict design and, while it probably looks like it’s easy to just make a single large flat bevel, it’s not.
I suspect this is not the first such incident, but it’s the first that anyone has been willing to cop to. I also suspect that, somewhere, a lawyer is screaming, “NO SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!”