Hot Take on Hot Takes

I am amazed at how many epidemiologist climate scientists who minored in deep-sea submersible engineering are also experts in international trade and macroeconomics.

You’d think that with a broad array of skills like that, more of them would have jobs.

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Monday Morning Memes…

Necessities...

If we are going to live in a modern technological society, the shit needs to get pumped away from your house.

It doesn't matter if someone can turn a profit on pumping the shit away from your house or not, because if your shit doesn't get pumped, we don't have a society. 

This is what government is for. If something could be done efficiently and affordably at a profit, we wouldn't need government to do it.

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Meme Dump...

Friday Memes...

That's a relief...

The day I was supposed to leave for TacCon, I hopped in the Mustang and noticed that the dome light didn't come on.

Dammit, I did not need this. That was a nearly brand new battery and I was sure we had tracked down and plugged the hole in the electrical system where the electrons were leaking out.

Oh, well, there was no time to do anything about it then,

This morning I went outside to hook up the charger to the battery and when I opened the driver's door to pop the hood, I saw the source of my problem: Some real genius had gone out driving the car in the rain last Monday and left the lights on when she got home.

D'oh!

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Ugh.

I am sick unto death.

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Val has left the building.

Val Kilmer, who passed away yesterday at age 65, was one of my first movie crushes, in Willow. He did a brilliant comedic turn in the Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker classic, Top Secret. Check out his spot-on timing in this scene...

Of course he was in three gun nerd movie classics: Tombstone, The Ghost and the Darkness, and Heat. His story in this Reddit thread about filming the latter is pretty cool.

I'm going to choose to believe that my AR mag body that was used in the big shootout scene in Heat is one of the ones used by Chris Shiherlis.

Meme Dump…

Tab Clearing...

• Hooters has gone bust.


• OnlyBots: Dudes suspicious that they'd been talking to chatbots are suing OnlyFans.


• $10k a head to attend a "Meet a Mate" pro-natalist conference? Anybody who signed up for that shindig deserves whatever happens, under the principle that it is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

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Monday Memes...

Seriously Uncool

A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an “administrative error,” Trump administration officials said in a court filing on Monday, adding that American courts lacked the jurisdiction to have him released.

The man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had lived in the United States under protected legal status since October 2019. His wife and 5-year-old child are both U.S. citizens.

If only we had a thing called to prevent this sort of fuckup. Maybe we could call it something like, oh, I dunno, "Due Process of Law" or something like that. 

 PS: Who was POTUS when the man was given protected legal status in 2019? Oh yeah.

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Meme Dump...