Labor Day Memes!

Legends of the Fall

Meteorological autumn starts on the first of September. Even though the "dog days of summer" extend into September... and with a streak of 90°-plus days stretching from August 31st to the day before yesterday its been a record stretch of heat this late in the season here in Indianapolis ...the ninth month is also the first of the "brrrrr months".

You know, "Septembrr, Octobrr, Novembrr, Decembrr". On average, by the time the month closes out, overnight temps here will be in the forties.

Actual astronomical autumn begins later in the month, with the autumnal equinox on the 22nd.

But today is Labor Day, the traditional Last Day of Summer here in 'Murrica.

When I was a kid, summer vacation generally ran from Memorial Day to Labor Day, a stretch of time that spread out as an endless vista of lightning bugs and camping trips, sleepovers and pool parties, and now it goes by in the blink of an eye.

Happy Lebber's Day!

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Overheard in the Office...

It's Saturday morning cartoon time. Bobbi's down the hall where the TV's on...

RX: "Popeye's in 'Goonland'."

Me: "That's why his forearms are so big."

Spiders!

Bobbi writes about the giant orb weaver that's taken up residence in the side yard.

Outdoor spiders are one thing, but this morning I went into the bathroom and a large wolf spider scurried off the wall and scuttled behind the toilet.

Welp.

Reckon I’ll go poop in the back yard.

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TGIF Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• How about an all-wheel drive shooting brake with a 496 cubic inch V-8?


• A shirt to confuse AI-powered cameras and keep them from recognizing you as a human. Another William Gibson book come to life!


• Meta wants to replace human low-level maintenance workers in data centers with robots.


• Fake Flock cameras used to honeytrap would-be vandals.

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No Nukes

There's a bunch of handwringing, both in social media and the more regular kind of media, about nukes, especially with word getting out that the Pentagon may be looking at revising the U.S. policy on the employment of tactical nukes as battlefield weapons against peer adversaries.

People should calm down, because the biggest barrier to us employing tactical nukes right now is that we more or less don't have any, unless you count some B61 gravity bombs. The US military pretty much got out of the tactical nuke biz after the Cold War.

As the article linked below explains:

"The first part of this equation is to look at what Washington actually has and does not have in its cupboards. The primary observation here is that the overwhelming majority of the US nuclear stockpile comprises strategic rather than tactical weapons. Because Russia retains a wide variety of tactical nuclear weapons designed for a variety of purposes, it is sometimes assumed that the United States has attempted to keep a sort of parity. This is pretty much not the case.

The general situation is that the USA has, since early 1990s, largely abolished its ability to use tactical nuclear weapons. President George Bush Sr. started the process in 1991 and the Clinton administration carried it forward. Over a period of several years, the USA removed many nuclear weapons systems from the inventory, decommissioned and dismantled thousands of warheads, and demolished many delivery systems. The Army and Marine Corps completely got out of the nuclear weapon business, and the Navy got away from all but submarine launched strategic nuclear missiles."

Lots of good detail on what was still in the US stockpile at the end of the Cold War and when it got de-milled. You should click through and read the whole thing.

These are not tactical nukes.

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Ominous Sign?

There's gonna be an AI generated Bitcoin "biographical thriller" movie starring Gal Godot?

I better make sure I don’t have any crypto left in any digital sofa cushions because, uh, this has a very “Getting stock tips from the shoeshine boy” vibe.

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