The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is scary and, having been in the path of a near-lethal coronavirus, one of the worst parts is wondering, “how much worse can this get?” and suspecting that the answer is “a whole lot.”
[Warning: Torture]
It’s all the rage: “Sure, I killed some folks, but we’ve got to move on.”
A friend of mine wants to make a Naruto-style ‘kunai’ knife out of damascus. Sounds like a fun project!
A few weeks ago I mused out loud about some weird symmetries regarding emails. [stderr]
I’m a hoarder of certain things; I admit it. Somewhere I have source tapes for Peter Langston’s Empire game, just in case someone wants to reconstruct that piece of history for a modern system.
The liberalized world-view tries to understand and forgive the ordinary German for the holocaust. When I was a kid, we were taught that it was mostly Hitler’s fault, but that a smallish coterie surrounding him supported the effort.
The last week’s “impeachment show” was a painful spectacle. Everyone betrayed everything; the only people who seemed to be truly self-aware were the horrible, sleazy, republicans and Donald Trump’s defenders. There was nothing to expect from them except the worst and, boy, did they deliver.
I’m not going to quote big swathes of this, because you should just give it a listen.
Fortunately, the coronavirus is not as bad as it could be; certainly it’s nowhere in the league of SARS or the 1911 swine flu. Which is a good thing, because it does not seem as though humanity’s response to the virus has been super effective.
Have you seen gun nuts sporting a patch that reads “RWDS”? It stands for Right Wing Death Squad.