From [youtube]@3:46
From [youtube]@3:46
There’s something about the internet mindset – the anonymity (or, I should say, “apparent anonymity”) on both sides, that brings out the worst in people. It seems to me as though half of the new internet entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to screw the other half. And both are trying to screw their customers.
… For aircraft carriers?
Photographer Ryoto Kajita photographs methane bubbles making patterns in frozen lakes.
When I was a kid, one summer, they cut the roadway along the side of a limestone hill. Suddenly, there were all these bullet-shaped things in the dirt. That was how I learned about fossils.
This is a trick that the US defense contractors have used for decades: spread the risk and the reward across a larger pool, and you pick up an army of free lobbyists that are looking out for their self-interest.
I took this yesterday, driving home from Pittsburgh. January 12; that’s pretty much “the dead of winter” around here.
Imagine being told “there are some ballistic missiles coming your way in 5hr, but for political reasons we need you to hunker down in a hole and grip your ankles and hope that they hit where they are supposed to. OK?”
Qasem Soleimani had a “bad guy” nickname; he was “The Shadow Commander.”
This is just breaking, so nobody really knows what’s going on, but:
