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    Cheese

    You’ve probably heard of the US Government’s strategic Helium reserve, or the fuel reserve. But, did you know that there is, under a mountain, a Tolkienesque city made of stacks of food?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 11, 2022
    • Capitalism is a disease, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
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    Signs of The Times

    There’s one stretch of road near my studio, where there are some old beaten-up miner’s homes that probably date to the 1890s – tar-paper covered, porched, coal-heated. When the mines were running, overseers and their families would be allowed to occupy such buildings. The miners’ homes have long since fallen down.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 10, 2022
    • Capitalism is a disease, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 11 Comments

    Lies (Jeffrey StClair)

    Quoted en bloc from Counterpunch [counterpunch] by Jeffrey StClair.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 4, 2022
    • Cops, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 5 Comments

    World War 3 Notes – A Matter of Range, Part 2

    In 2016 I wrote a piece here that partially touched on the matter of range in warfare. [stderr]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 1, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
    • 52 Comments

    Roe V Wade

    Fascists like to broadcast their intentions; it’s part of their “thing.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 6, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 26 Comments

    It Does Baffle Me

    This is a very “on point” meme for me.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 19, 2022
    • Philosophy, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 34 Comments

    It Always Comes Out, Eventually

    [Warning: Torture]

    I’m not sure why, but psychopaths sure do like to brag, don’t they?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 15, 2022
    • CIA, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
    • 10 Comments

    I’m Uncomfortable About This

    It seems to me that, now that we are building a better idea of the effects of inheritance on a person, that humanity needs to somewhat re-assess how we treat offspring, in both positive and negative manner.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 6, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 15 Comments

    Huge News

    The Taekwondo federation has stripped Putin of his black belt. [reuters]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
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    Trucker Fail

    Apparently some parts of the “trucker convoy” have evaporated, due to disinterest.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2022
    • Cops, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
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