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That's how Ray Gun supposedly ended the Cold War. The calculus among policy makers who gave Ronnie his lines in the morning before his wardrobe/make-up call was that if we forced another Cold War, they'd run out of money before we did. This actually worked, but when we ran out of money the situation...

Quality matters in motion picture unions. The effect there is that every job on a set becomes very compartmentalized and you practically need a scorecard to know who to ask for what. However the unions all have training programs and they enforce rigorous quality standards, as one would expect in a b...

The primary driver this year seems to be an anticipated El Nino/La Nina switch in the Southern Oscillation. Those are tricky and unpredictable. My own experience suggests that the results will either be spectacular or practically nonexistent. There seems to be no intermediate case here.

Used to be that you'd see that kind of security for Super Bowls. Figures that now we'd need it even for the player draft. BTW, speaking of drafts, if this situation persists in the world, everyone under 45 had best start worrying about that letter that starts with "Greetings from the President ...

This war is starting to badly disrupt life in the US. Suddenly religion matters. I can tell stories on how difficult life has become in LA. It's really noticeable, to the point where friendships are ending and social affairs are becoming exercises in diplomatic relations. One has to screen every sen...

Nothing in the quote about regulating firearms. The speaker was simply noting that when deadly weapons are introduced into a situation, don't be surprised when the outcome is permanent.

ADSBx shows three news choppers over U$C. Picture on TWITTER of large crowd gathered near Tommy Trojan (a statue, not a prophylactic device). Definitely a protest against canning the valedictory speaker. U$C just doesn't have student demonstrations. It has frat parties and football games. This is un...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68848821 USC campus tense after Muslim valedictorian's speech cancelled On Monday, USC said Muslim student Asna Tabassum would no longer be permitted to deliver a speech as valedictorian due to unspecified security threats. The move came after complaints that...

"War doesn't decide who's right, only who's left."

Ray Gun and Carter are both essentially failed presidents. It's just that the USSR finally collapsed on Ray Gun's watch. Americans, who tend to value business acumen well higher than historical insight, love to confuse delayed effects with immediate causes.

It gets better. One of the Senate witnesses described scenes of workers in the assembly plant jumping up and down on fuselage parts from other factories, to make them fit properly.

Comes up a lot in history studies. It goes to the theory of releasing causes vs underlying causes. There's a lot of interaction. The phrase "causal texture" comes up quite a bit. It's why it's so hard to assign blame for historical events until well after everyone's dead. It's akin to thos...

The Civil War was caused by economics, with slavery being an issue inherent to the economic system that was in question. The whole US had been founded on slave labor, given that the European colonizers had always considered the losers of armed conflicts anywhere to be a good source of same. "Ru...

Well, yeah. Most of the advertising you see for cities is Chamber of Commerce type stuff, aimed at attracting affluent people who will come, spread some of the all-powerful green stuff around, and then leave before they become part of the problem. This is seen as a way for cities to make up for what...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68834525 A Boeing engineer told US lawmakers that he was harassed and threatened after he raised concerns about the safety of the company's planes. Whistleblower Sam Salehpour said Wednesday that his boss berated him in a 40-minute call and his tyre was punct...

The total solar eclipse moved the ionosphere just enough to shift the frequency of WWV standard frequency and time signals by +/- one Hertz over a period of a couple of hours, as measured remotely at the other end of a skip path. The transmitters are magnitudes more stable than that, as they are con...

Legal sports betting has also turned networks like ESPN into shills for the casinos. They used to run games you might have missed in the off-prime hours, now they run very dumb people discussing the over and under like they were in some damn bar. It's another step toward the total dumbdown of Wester...

Whistleblowers are testifying before a Senate committee. It's being covered by Nooz outlets that don't have marching orders to do all drumpf all the time. Boeing is in very deep doodoo. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68838169?src_origin=BBCS_BBC Witness Ed Pierson says the FAA "n...

> Detroit sign Culver City has one of those HOLLYWOOD sign imitations too. After all, that's where half the movies got made. Back in the days before generative AI, the Florida motion picture bureau had a deepfake photo of a FLORIDA sign right on the hill that HOLLYWOOD uses, city microwave tower and...

Isn't that part of aging? 20-year-olds and their recording artists jump on whatever song lyrics outrage their parents and sell lots of recordings and concert tickets, then 40 years later they're all on Internet with everyone else decrying pronouns, genderfluidity, liberal politics, and "those k...

Ray Gun gets a 9 on inspiring the base, but a 4 on policy. He did permanent damage to many industries such as media and communication, and basically gave the country away to the war planners, Ivy Leaguers, and old-money bloodsuckers. Everything since has been a descent into hell. History is a bitch-...

Ranking presidents is stupid. There's a feedback loop between the times and the president's rising to the occasion or not. A couple of Republicans had the good luck to be in office at the time Russia was going through a transition period, now they're saints for saving the world. That's why academic ...

Yeah, yeah, California is a shithole and Mississippi is the last best hope for civilization.

Then why aren't there hundreds of thousands of people going homeless just so they can live in Mississippi?

I'd be funnier if I hadn't gone over my tolerance level for right wing media brainwashing. It's a full time job keeping that poison out of my head.

Trump won't physically threaten people, he has the whole US right wing for that.