Zoom Calls Foreseen in 1930

What an unbelievable time we are going through. I ran across a bunch of "future fantasy collectible cards" from Germany, between the Great Wars. What did people dream about during that difficult time?

What did they get right?

What did they get wrong?

Check out the details of the card above, depicting elements of today's Zoom calls:

Wireless Private Phone and Television. Translation of the verso: Each person has their own transmitter and receiver and can communicate with friends and relatives using certain wavelengths. But television technology has become so advanced that people can talk and watch their friends in real-time. The transmitter and receiver are no longer bound to the location but are carried in a box the size of a photo apparatus.

What other details in the artwork stand out to you?

These future fantasy collectible cards were published by the German company Echte Wagner in the first half of the 20th century. Originally Echte Wagner made margarine, and it made a lot of trade cards that were distributed all over Central Europe.
In 1930, the True Wagner Margarine created a series of books designed as a display for a collection of stickers made available separately. In this book, there's a section called Future Fantasy which has no artist or author credited. . .
There were hundreds of Echte Wagner trading cards, and they were focused on numerous topics, including folklore, transportation, culture, universe, futurism, and more. The most fascinating ones are the cards depicting visions of the future. Many of those ideas came true a hundred years later!

A couple more cards are included below the fold:

Translation of the verso: The future cars are powered by tiny engines that use nuclear power. The speed of cars has grown accordingly. The reach speed of 200 to 300 kilometers an hour on city roads. On highways, speeds of 1,000 km/h are quite common!

Has someone told AOC about this?

Retrofuturism is first and foremost based on modern but changing notions of "the future". As Guffey notes, retrofuturism is "a recent neologism", but it "builds on futurists' fevered visions of space colonies with flying cars, robotic servants, and interstellar travel on display there; where futurists took their promise for granted, retro-futurism emerged as a more skeptical reaction to these dreams".
In its more popular form, futurism (sometimes referred to as futurology) is "an early optimism that focused on the past and was rooted in the nineteenth century, an early-twentieth-century 'golden age' that continued long into the 1960s' Space Age".

Translation of the verso: The airship displayed above is about to land in its giant pad. It is no longer lifted by gas and driven by engines, it has a built-in transformer that is able to harness gravity into repulsive force. Now it's possible to raise, lower, and move huge payloads.

From Sydney, via Colombo, Sri Lanka and Tehran?

Okay, this is artwork. But what did the Powers that Be get right and wrong in 1930?

Can you pick out some things that people in power are getting right today (from among the things they are getting wrong)? Or should we be looking elsewhere?

Music

The Lark Ascending

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

Hope you have something nice to do this weekend.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:14 AM

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1 Where are their masks?

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 10:16 AM (20dZh)

2 Flying car.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2021 10:17 AM (AVDhF)

3 no moslims in that future

backwards moslems ruin any future

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:19 AM (bTQ72)

4 The future ain't what it used to be.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 28, 2021 10:20 AM (SchxB)

5 I'm definitely in the wrong timeline. I want to request a transfer.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:20 AM (ghoDT)

6 Thank you, K.T. for the Lark Ascending.

It was one of my Dad's favorites, and he passed that appreciation on to me.

I still miss him daily, even 16 years after he passed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 28, 2021 10:22 AM (u82oZ)

7 she is smoking a cigarette, which is not a thing that bad people do

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:22 AM (bTQ72)

8 I'm definitely in the wrong timeline. I want to request a transfer.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:20 AM (ghoDT)

I blame Spock.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 10:22 AM (AiZBA)

9 >>> Translation of the verso: The future cars are powered by tiny engines that use nuclear power. The speed of cars has grown accordingly. The reach speed of 200 to 300 kilometers an hour on city roads. On highways, speeds of 1,000 km/h are quite common!

Where is my Mr. Fusion???

(Also, like our modern imbeciles who think "public transportation" could actually do what they claim, these guys seem to have forgotten the concept of deceleration)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2021 10:23 AM (ACi07)

10 I'm still a Zoom virgin. Which is mostly excellent, since it's partly owned and definitely data mined by them commie Chinese asshoes.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 28, 2021 10:24 AM (F0YaR)

11 When should we point ace's time machine?

I have a list of what I want to take with me to the past.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 28, 2021 10:24 AM (u82oZ)

12 They aren't shown on the cards, but you know they were all wondering when they'd get nuclear-powered sexbots.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:25 AM (ZsR3z)

13
the CCP monitors zoom in real time, they have shut down calls discussing Hong Kong and Tiawan freedoms

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:25 AM (bTQ72)

14 (Also, like our modern imbeciles who think "public transportation" could actually do what they claim, these guys seem to have forgotten the concept of deceleration)

You act like being cut into chunks by the seat belt just before you fly through the windshield is a bad thing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 28, 2021 10:26 AM (SchxB)

15 Oh, wow. Timestamps off?

Posted by: KT at August 28, 2021 10:26 AM (BVQ+1)

16
the surveillance state is not depicted in those cards ....

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:26 AM (bTQ72)

17 Japanese Menko trading cards are way cooler.

Baseball players and samurai.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 28, 2021 10:26 AM (vuisn)

18 Amazingly, Star Trek keeps getting things right. Including a firm theory for warp drive and transporters (now only done with small atoms, but still!)

Still waiting for the pill that can regrow my kidney in a few minutes.

Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes at August 28, 2021 10:27 AM (KqiMr)

19 18 Amazingly, Star Trek keeps getting things right. Including a firm theory for warp drive and transporters (now only done with small atoms, but still!)

Still waiting for the pill that can regrow my kidney in a few minutes.

Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes at August 28, 2021 10:27 AM (KqiMr)

Don't know if it "regrew" it or just fixed the broken bits.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (ynpvh)

20 Apparently drinking and smoking never went out of style. That's a plus, I guess. Kinda' hard to tell males and females in some photos, so that was pretty neat they predicted the whole transgender thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (BFigT)

21 they would be having a great time if they put down the stupid screens and took off the stupid ear buds. The chick that smokes is likely hot to trot, but who wants to kiss a smoker?

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (/i32d)

22 Morning.

Coffee with whiskey. That's the future. My future. All our futures.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (1Yy3c)

23 Well, the modern cellphones bombard you with constant propaganda in the form of "alerts." The alerts tell you things like how much the government loves you and the leaders are our heros, how you as an individual must conform for the good of the whole, how megacorporations are helping us all, how specific racial groups are to blame for all our problems, how those races' insidious agents are secretly controlling the State's political opponents, and how violence is justified in their suppression.

I'm surprised Germans in the '30s didn't foresee this little wrinkle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (rZA2o)

24 I would say that top pic is a pretty accurate representation of Skype calls, moreso than Zoom. I think the defining feature of Zoom is multi-party calls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 10:31 AM (hT9If)

25 "Can you pick out some things that people in power are getting right today (from among the things they are getting wrong)? Or should we be looking elsewhere?"

The best thing people in power can do is foster environments where the market of ideas can thrive - and then the people in power need to get out of the way!

I know, that ship sailed a looooong time ago.

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM (mZUr4)

26 Amazingly, Star Trek keeps getting things right. Including a firm theory for warp drive and transporters (now only done with small atoms, but still!)

Still waiting for the pill that can regrow my kidney in a few minutes.

Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes at August 28, 2021 10:27 AM (KqiMr)

I'm waiting for the replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM (VwHCD)

27 I'm still a Zoom virgin. Which is mostly excellent, since it's partly owned and definitely data mined by them commie Chinese asshoes.
Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 28, 2021 10:24 AM (F0YaR)

Whenever I'm required to use it, I spin up a VM for it and then blow away the image when I'm done. Keep that stuff in a glove box like it's a biowarfare agent.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM (ghoDT)

28 bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM (vuisn)

29 The best thing people in power can do is foster environments where the market of ideas can thrive - and then the people in power need to get out of the way!

If they knew how to do that, they'd be in the private sector, making a fortune.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (ZsR3z)

30 why don't the cars use that negative gravity gizmo and "float" rather than trouble with wheels?

Maybe the people in the future were on Zoom so much they didn't have time to think of this.

Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (AMIL/)

31 Coffee with whiskey. That's the future. My future. All our futures.
Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (1Yy3c)

2 of my favorite things, which I have never tried together. Hmmmm...

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (mZUr4)

32 The chick that smokes is likely hot to trot, but who wants to kiss a smoker?
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (/i32d)

Lol, lookit Mr. "I have standards and dignity and self-respect" over here.

...what's that even like?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (ghoDT)

33 Retrofuturism is first and foremost based on modern but changing notions of "the future".

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 10:34 AM (d9FiS)

34 When you think a while about it there really isn't a lot that's revolutionary in the modern world outside computers, the application of logistics, agriculture, and chemistry.

All the ideas of futuristic transportation, exploring space, exploring the sea, fancy work-saving gadgets, life-saving medicine are mostly abandoned except for a few niche low impact areas.

Government control has hampered most of the innovation there. So money makers have gone into areas with less control and more profit. Computers were a wild west of innovation and competition in the beginning so there was a lot of innovation. And now even that is changing as the people on the top of the hill are only concerned with kicking everyone else down.

The only idea now is to create something no one needs, convince them they need it, profit. This may work organically over a hundred years, but month to month you're just creating growing heaps of useless societal effluvium.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 10:35 AM (20dZh)

35 This has probably already been shared, but it's still awesome:
https://is.gd/B6o0Xu

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2021 10:36 AM (ACi07)

36 I'm waiting for the replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM

Why? I mean they are constantly breaking down at least on Deep Space 9.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:36 AM (JUOKG)

37 they would be having a great time if they put down the stupid screens and took off the stupid ear buds. The chick that smokes is likely hot to trot, but who wants to kiss a smoker?

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (/i32d)

If she's hot enough I don't care is she smokes during sex.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:37 AM (VwHCD)

38 >>Can you pick out some things that people in power are getting right today (from among the things they are getting wrong)? Or should we be looking elsewhere?

In the 90's I worked for a Bell company, and the CEO was saying how sell phones would soon be like small computers that we used for all sorts of things apart from phone calls.

They do a little too much, now, in my estimation -- all those Gen Z zombies with their eyes glued to their screens . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 10:37 AM (bDqIh)

39 why don't the cars use that negative gravity gizmo and "float" rather than trouble with wheels?

Maybe the people in the future were on Zoom so much they didn't have time to think of this.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (AMIL/)

You make a good point. There are some technologies, that if they came to fruition, would negate their predecessors completely. Who routinely uses horse-drawn buggies, aside from the Amish?

The "airship" is silly. If you had antigravity, you could fly from Berlin to Sydney in your own flitter car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 10:37 AM (hT9If)

40 What other details in the artwork stand out to you?

By their garb and also the plane in background it appears the women are aviators. Aviatrices.

They fly planes.

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 10:37 AM (DJFLF)

41 A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

https://tinyurl.com/56vzzwbk

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (0k/I2)

42 Lol, lookit Mr. "I have standards and dignity and self-respect" over here.

...what's that even like?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:33 AM (ghoDT)

I am puffing a pipe as we speak and i have a dip in. I am harsh but not fair. By choice I don't think anyone would prefer a smoker unless they themselves were.

I read once that if a girl smoked, well, she probably did other things outside of Elizabethan social mores.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (/i32d)

43 I'm waiting for the replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM

Why? I mean they are constantly breaking down at least on Deep Space 9.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:36 AM (JUOKG)

They never seem to have enough replicators to replicate new replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (VwHCD)

44 I am puffing a pipe as we speak and i have a dip in. I am harsh but not fair. By choice I don't think anyone would prefer a smoker unless they themselves were.
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (/i32d)

It was a self-deprecating dig, don't read anything into it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:39 AM (ghoDT)

45 Flying cars were never a problem.
The eternal issue, like everywhere, is traffic management.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 28, 2021 10:39 AM (vuisn)

46 Tami posted a link from Bloomberg about effectiveness of natural immunity and likelihood of vaxxed spreading delta variant...

Here another study from Israel - effectiveness of Invermenctin (that is in addition to what Japan is doing)

https://bit.ly/2UTI5l1

choice bit : "Our study shows first and foremost that ivermectin has antiviral activity," Schwartz said. "It also shows that there is almost a 100% chance that a person will be noninfectious in four to six days, which could lead to shortening isolation time for these people. This could have a huge economic and social impact."

(twitteraty mental midgets need to shut the fk up..)

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 10:39 AM (V13WU)

47 I'm waiting for the replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM

Why? I mean they are constantly breaking down at least on Deep Space 9.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:36 AM (JUOKG)

DS9 was a Cardassian piece of shit maintained by Bajorans who probably subcontracted maintenance to the Ferengi.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 10:39 AM (1Yy3c)

48 >>> 41 A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

https://tinyurl.com/56vzzwbk
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (0k/I2)

Sure, why not? Given we've already seen some of these asshoes do the same when parents try to block their children from getting ~~"transition"~~ Mengele treatment, this should not be terribly surprising.

Disgusting, but not surprising.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2021 10:41 AM (ACi07)

49 37 they would be having a great time if they put down the stupid screens and took off the stupid ear buds. The chick that smokes is likely hot to trot, but who wants to kiss a smoker?

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:30 AM (/i32d)

If she's hot enough I don't care is she smokes during sex.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:37 AM (VwHCD)

If she's smoking during sex you probably need to use a better lubricant.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 10:41 AM (1Yy3c)

50 It was a self-deprecating dig, don't read anything into it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:39 AM (ghoDT)

I didn't. I always like chatting with you.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:41 AM (/i32d)

51 The only idea now is to create something no one needs, convince them they need it, profit. This may work organically over a hundred years, but month to month you're just creating growing heaps of useless societal effluvium.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 10:35 AM

Take the cellphone for example. This technology did not exist 40 years ago, and was hideously expensive until about 20-25 years ago, yet in less than one generation nearly the entire world has become dependent upon it. Way less than 100 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:41 AM (JUOKG)

52 Israelis also mention a study from 2020 (!) : "...Another recent review found that ivermectin reduced deaths by 75%" the report said."

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 10:41 AM (V13WU)

53 So what have they been doing for the last 10-11 months ? Oh right, making Pfizer and Moderna very rich, terrorizing and harassing qualified people who have legitimate concerns and questions.

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 10:42 AM (V13WU)

54 Music apropos to this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfHZUS_ju0E

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 10:43 AM (hT9If)

55 27 I'm still a Zoom virgin. Which is mostly excellent, since it's partly owned and definitely data mined by them commie Chinese asshoes.
Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 28, 2021 10:24 AM (F0YaR)

Whenever I'm required to use it, I spin up a VM for it and then blow away the image when I'm done. Keep that stuff in a glove box like it's a biowarfare agent.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM (ghoDT)

Work and COVID pretty much turned me into a Zoom whore.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:43 AM (ynpvh)

56 Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (0k/I2)

She needs to sue the judge for practicing medicine without a license. And also judicial malpractice. She said she had prior reactions to shots, so...what do you want judge? For the 2 year old to have a dead or impaired mother?

Chicago is America's commie hub so I guess this is not too surprising.

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 10:43 AM (DJFLF)

57 High speed rail!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 10:43 AM (d9FiS)

58 When you think a while about it there really isn't a lot that's revolutionary in the modern world outside computers, the application of logistics, agriculture, and chemistry.

Mark Steyn says something similar, but I completely disagree. Sure, certain areas have become less innovative, often because they're good enough now that there isn't a strong driver, but off the top of my head, I can think of genomics and related biology, medicine, software (as opposed to the hardware implied by "computers"), robotics, spacecraft, energy storage, and alternative fuels. I think part of the reason people think innovation has stagnated, is that a better software innovation doesn't visually convey in the way a new airplane does.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:44 AM (ZsR3z)

59 36 I'm waiting for the replicators.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 10:32 AM

Why? I mean they are constantly breaking down at least on Deep Space 9.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:36 AM (JUOKG)

On Stargate, they were self-replicating machines. Very destructive. No replicators for me, please.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:44 AM (ynpvh)

60 I think the defining feature of Zoom is multi-party calls.
=====

Back to the Future of partyline calls. Anybody else remember those -- usually a rural feature?

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 10:46 AM (MIKMs)

61 it is crazy what they got right. I guess they didn't dream up blue tooth or wifi but they were right about a lot of things.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:46 AM (/i32d)

62 41 A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

https://tinyurl.com/56vzzwbk

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (0k/I2)

I think the Judge needs to get each flavor of COVID vaccine a dozen times, just to see what the net reaction to them all would be.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:46 AM (ynpvh)

63 we don't drink that much lemonade, but i am a fan.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (/i32d)

64 But wait there is more !

https://bit.ly/2Y6TRda

"'Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate) didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study.
Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review."

Wait a second, are you Hebrews telling me that there are therapeutics out there that can treat covid like a nasty flu , for under about 10 bucks and it without compromising the immune systems ?? Shocked, shocked....

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (V13WU)

65 44 I am puffing a pipe as we speak
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (/i32d)

call me

Posted by: shep at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (uCLWI)

66 That is amazing about the zoom call art. Honestly, I think a lot of people are disappointed with the promises about the future, that did not come true.
There is a great interest in vintage things these days. Or I feel that way at least. Part of it is getting older, part of it is that the new toilet or dishwasher turns out not to be better than the old. Part of it, for instance vintage cars, I think people are not in a rush to get anywhere, and if you have a problem, there are easy backups these days (cell phones, AAA, uber can save you). Getting in an older car (house, whatever) that reminds you of your youth or happier times is good some times.
But also part of it is people realizing that the great things promised by the shiny new object is mostly bs.

Posted by: MikeM at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (jbRB1)

67 A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

==

judge needs to be tarred and feathered and set aflame

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (V13WU)

68 Vannevar Bush was the head scientist for the US WWII effort. He made the decision to fund the Bomb, but was down on rocketry.

He wrote a presceint widely-red essay in 1946 that anticipated personal computers and the internet , He saw the Memex as expanding our ability to remember and think.

He didn't anticipate it being used for cute cat videos and dick pics.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (ZHVt1)

69 Back to the Future of partyline calls. Anybody else remember those -- usually a rural feature?
Posted by: mustbequantum

I'm old enough to remember party lines in the city.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (OCTRt)

70 They have a gender-ambiguous server, so I guess that was accurate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (VxC1e)

71 it is crazy what they got right. I guess they didn't dream up blue tooth or wifi but they were right about a lot of things.

What they really did was catalog what they'd like (i.e., a need), and then imagine a solution. That's really how I'd expect it to work.

They didn't imagine a Joe Biden because who really wants one of those?

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (ZsR3z)

72 Where's my damn rocket pack? I was promised that we'd have rocket packs by the year 2000, it was in all the cartoons I watched during the 60s. I don't need the TV wristwatch, I want the rocket pack!

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 10:49 AM (KF5Wg)

73 One thing they got right is that the two girls in the top picture are spending their time together by talking to other people.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 10:49 AM (fFtVH)

74 Back to the Future of partyline calls. Anybody else remember those -- usually a rural feature?

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 10:46 AM (MIKMs)

i remember those. I also remember talking on the phone with my dad and having to say "over" after a statement. I don't know if that was relayed by a ship or what, i should probably look it up.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:49 AM (/i32d)

75 I was hoping for a card showing the Barcalounger-Toilet.

A nice lounge chair/recliner with a toilet in the seat so the people of the future won't have to interrupt their day by having to get up to make a boom-boom.

Like that fella had in "Idiocracy"...Go away! 'Batin'!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 28, 2021 10:49 AM (R/m4+)

76 Where's my damn rocket pack? I was promised that we'd have rocket packs by the year 2000, it was in all the cartoons I watched during the 60s. I don't need the TV wristwatch, I want the rocket pack!

I'm still waiting for a foot powered car and brontosaurus ribs that tip it over, but I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:50 AM (ZsR3z)

77 68 Vannevar Bush was the head scientist for the US WWII effort. He made the decision to fund the Bomb, but was down on rocketry.

He wrote a presceint widely-red essay in 1946 that anticipated personal computers and the internet , He saw the Memex as expanding our ability to remember and think.

He didn't anticipate it being used for cute cat videos and dick pics.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 10:48 AM (ZHVt1)

If there isn't a rule, there should be one that states that any technology will ultimately be used, in some way, for sexual gratification.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:50 AM (ynpvh)

78 it has deployed the brake rockets and has quickly reduced its speed.

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I've been reading Unsung Eagles by Jay Stout about the experiences of ordinary WWII airmen. He tells of a guy who survived 11 gees although it tore his colon and he almost bled to death.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (d9FiS)

79 75 I was hoping for a card showing the Barcalounger-Toilet.

A nice lounge chair/recliner with a toilet in the seat so the people of the future won't have to interrupt their day by having to get up to make a boom-boom.

Like that fella had in "Idiocracy"...Go away! 'Batin'!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 28, 2021 10:49 AM (R/m4+)

Didn't National Lampoon do this in the 70's?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (vuisn)

80 63 we don't drink that much lemonade, but i am a fan.
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (/i32d)

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In the future they used to drink a lot of lemonade.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (VxC1e)

81 I'm old enough to remember party lines in the city.
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I remember meeting the city telephone operator. From what I remember, she worked during the day routing calls and at night it was all party line unless the mayor declared an emergency. Pretty young woman, and I was impressed. Lily Tomlin killed that memory for me.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (MIKMs)

82 If there isn't a rule, there should be one that states that any technology will ultimately be used, in some way, for sexual gratification.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:50 AM (ynpvh)

When watching Star Trek TNG, I always used to snort derisively whenever the Holodeck came up. We'd see Chief O'Brian being toted to sick bay because he'd broken his arm whitewater rafting in there, when we KNOW what all the men really be doing in there. Whitewater rafting, my eye.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (KF5Wg)

83 IIRC those were MARS calls they went through a ham radio operator.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (JUOKG)

84

who red pilled Bill Mahr??

'Stop s***ing on your own!': Bill Maher says woke liberals have lost 'perspective' about 'real oppression' and should stop complaining about America and realize 'we're not the bad guys'

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (bTQ72)

85 The Car Fox looks more like a red panda

Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (uCLWI)

86 In the future they used to drink a lot of lemonade.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (VxC1e)

It's not lemonade...

Posted by: Mahatma Gandhi at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (hT9If)

87 Social mores in the US at one time didn't really allow for females smoking, at least not publicly. The tobacco companies knew that expanding their market by a potential 50% would be very profitable. Ed Bernays was put on the job for advertising executives. Smoking was marketed as kind of a "civil rights" thing, and cigarettes were called "Freedom Sticks". You've come a long way baby!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2021 10:54 AM (faXIs)

88 It's a crazy world when Bill Maher stands out as voice of sanity and reason.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 10:54 AM (ZHVt1)

89 80 63 we don't drink that much lemonade, but i am a fan.
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (/i32d)

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In the future they used to drink a lot of lemonade.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (VxC1e)

In the "Hitchhiker's Guide" book series, the author gets into a discussion of the grammar of time travel, e.g. a church that was being built but never was. The Tense was Future Perfect, or something like that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:54 AM (ynpvh)

90 In the future they used to drink a lot of lemonade.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 10:51 AM (VxC1e)

It's not lemonade...
Posted by: Mahatma Gandhi at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (hT9If)

Let's not start debating the Dune movie versions again.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 10:54 AM (KF5Wg)

91
K.T.

Thank you for "Lark Ascending." It's one of those pieces of music that my father, of blessed memory, loved. As such I cannot listen to it without getting emotional.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 28, 2021 10:55 AM (s2VJv)

92 We are planning a wonderful day. We are in a beautiful valley between two mountains, visiting our daughter and SIL in Utah. Going shooting this morning and having a cookout this afternoon. Family, food and fun all day. Just what everyone needs right now.

Posted by: megthered at August 28, 2021 10:55 AM (QmLOQ)

93

does it have electrolytes??

gotta have those

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (bTQ72)

94 Ah, the internet. Found it.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html

"Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations"

"Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

95 I was late to the coffee thread, but wanted to talk about the covid BS. I'm currently in B'ham taking care of my dad for a couple of weeks and the fear porn on all the local news is beyond crazy. My dad and sister have bought into it, which sucks.

Anyway, was out working in the yard when a neighbor stopped by to talk. He seemed pro-Trump conservative, definitely anti-paste eater. Got to talking about the vaccines and said his brother had just passed away about a week and a half after getting the jab. Funeral was that day. Can't remember if it was the first or second dose, think it was the first though. He told me that his brother had contracted covid just before the jab and didn't know he was positive prior to vaccination. Said his brother died of covid. I'm surprised he didn't help me pick my jaw up from the lawn. There seemed to be no recognition that the vaccine could be the cause of death.

There is such a push here for lotty-dotty, every-damn-body to get vaccinated. Gov Ivey has gone full retard in blaming the unvaccinated for the rise in cases, along with every medical "authority" in the state. This terrifies me to no end to see what's happening across the country.

Posted by: Trog04 at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (T2s1D)

96 does it have electrolytes??

gotta have those

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (bTQ72)

and dip-tet

Posted by: BignJames at August 28, 2021 10:57 AM (AwYPR)

97 It's kinda refreshing to see the MSM taking the Pentagon's and President's word at face value

Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 10:57 AM (uCLWI)

98 Ok what's that 30-40 yo country song about future tech? They used to play it even on mtv all the time and the country channel. I was thinking oak ridge or gatlin bros but I can't remember. All this retrofuture stuff going on in the background of the video while they sing.

I tried doing a search but apparently, the internet was wiped clean of country before 2010. "Country" means, "please show me what brad paisley is doing right now". Yeah, I'll pass on that, thanks.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 10:57 AM (OC8KG)

99 We are planning a wonderful day. We are in a beautiful valley between two mountains, visiting our daughter and SIL in Utah.

We just got back from a two day visit to Pittsburgh to see my youngest daughter, who is starting a master's at Carnegie Mellon. It was my first trip there, and although it was beastly hot, it was a wonderful trip. PB has a lot to recommend it, especially the botanical garden and the Carnegie Natural History museum.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 10:57 AM (ZsR3z)

100 I'd be happy if we could just eliminate celebrities by creating CGI actors

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 10:58 AM (d9FiS)

101 If she's hot enough I don't care is she smokes during sex.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

BDD - if's that's the case get thee some high temp, high performance bearing grease! Ya don't want to hurt yourself!

I know you have some in the garage.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2021 10:59 AM (mD/uy)

102 "Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."
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Golly gee! Sounds and looks just like the last two Constitutional Amendments to the Illinois Constitution!

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (MIKMs)

103 In the lead zoom call one, the man is serving the women!

Posted by: Riddle at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (zuneQ)

104 If there isn't a rule, there should be one that states that any technology will ultimately be used, in some way, for sexual gratification.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:50 AM (ynpvh)

When watching Star Trek TNG, I always used to snort derisively whenever the Holodeck came up. We'd see Chief O'Brian being toted to sick bay because he'd broken his arm whitewater rafting in there, when we KNOW what all the men really be doing in there. Whitewater rafting, my eye.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (KF5Wg)

Geordie *was* banging a hologram woman at some point.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

105 97 It's kinda refreshing to see the MSM taking the Pentagon's and President's word at face value
Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 10:57 AM (uCLWI)

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You'll never hear a word of contrition or humility from those pieces of shit about foisting President Ice Cream Cone on us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (VxC1e)

106 There is such a push here for lotty-dotty, every-damn-body to get vaccinated. Gov Ivey has gone full retard in blaming the unvaccinated for the rise in cases, along with every medical "authority" in the state. This terrifies me to no end to see what's happening across the country.
Posted by: Trog04 at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (T2s1D)

Well, the vaccines against smallpox, and polio, and diptheria, and a number of other diseases worked. There was a reservoir of trust built up. The Seep State is exploiting that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (hT9If)

107 I guess they didn't dream up blue tooth or wifi but they were right about a lot of things.

The thing about really good futurism is that it doesn’t predict the mechanism, but the need. Look at current social and technological trends; what’s going to be needed? Assume that the need will somehow be solved.

The most dated futurism uses the same technique, and then skips step three. It assumes (usually, I think, without realizing it) that the need will not be met, and the author writes a story around how this lack (such as the inability to communicate long distance on the moon because its curvature is so much greater than on the earth) causes trouble for the protagonists.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (CX3cf)

108 He told me that his brother had contracted covid just before the jab and didn't know he was positive prior to vaccination. Said his brother died of covid. I'm surprised he didn't help me pick my jaw up from the lawn. There seemed to be no recognition that the vaccine could be the cause of death.

My friend's aunt died right after the shot, the doc told her fam that she had an active COVID19 infection at the time of the jab and that's what caused the death...not the COVID infection alone.

Which begs the question: Why are providers not screening consumers to see if they are harboring live infections - before they get jabbed?

The vax manufacturers are immune from lawsuits but the providers are not. This is negligence.

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (DJFLF)

109 Didn't Dick Tracy have a videophone for a wrist watch?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (ZHVt1)

110 cigarettes were called "Freedom Sticks".

-
Get away sticks > freedom sticks

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (d9FiS)

111 >>> "Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations"

"Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

Ever read "House of Leaves"? That's a real trip. Probably should have a similar forward.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (OC8KG)

112 Probably going to lose my job. Not looking forward to looking for work at 29 with the wuhan craziness.

Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (Kx3kq)

113 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

114 This terrifies me to no end to see what's happening across the country.
Posted by: Trog04 at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (T2s1D)

there is a link to a study on previous thread about vaccinated and their "Delta" . I will wait aa day , till there is another certified study that will support what many are saying - vaxxed produced Delta, they are the kitchen of Delta....suppressed immune system - BAM, new variant.

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 11:03 AM (V13WU)

115 Fuck flying cars
I want my MTV
back

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:03 AM (yrol0)

116 BDD - if's that's the case get thee some high temp, high performance bearing grease! Ya don't want to hurt yourself!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2021 10:59 AM (mD/uy)

It depends on the use case; moly grease is better in high-pressure cases and prevents welding under shock loading.

What are we talking about?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 11:03 AM (ghoDT)

117 Back to the Future of partyline calls. Anybody else remember those -- usually a rural feature?
Posted by: mustbequantum

We still had a party line in 1985.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 28, 2021 11:03 AM (Vxu+H)

118 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The same reason all female newsreaders are now wearing oversized, librarian glasses.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2021 11:04 AM (mD/uy)

119 *OK, I definitely don't need more coffee...

Posted by: runner, distinguished commenter at August 28, 2021 11:04 AM (V13WU)

120 Didn't Dick Tracy have a videophone for a wrist watch?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (ZHVt1)

He started out with a 2-way wrist radio, that got updated to a 2-way wrist TV circa 1960 or so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:04 AM (hT9If)

121 Geordie *was* banging a hologram woman at some point.
Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

Id say get in the kitchen and make me a pie!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:05 AM (yrol0)

122 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Fashion first, utility an afterthought.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:05 AM (NYnSy)

123 111 >>> "Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations"

"Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

Ever read "House of Leaves"? That's a real trip. Probably should have a similar forward.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (OC8KG)

Can't say that I have, although I just looked it up, and it sounds like a Tardis house.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:05 AM (ynpvh)

124 The thing about really good futurism is that it doesn't predict the mechanism, but the need. Look at current social and technological trends; what's going to be needed? Assume that the need will somehow be solved.
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But the need for fashion is eternal in Steampunk. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 11:06 AM (MIKMs)

125 I am puffing a pipe as we speak
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (/i32d)

call me

Posted by: shep at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (uCLWI)

Funny shit. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:06 AM (VwHCD)

126 Those guys in the top picture don't have tats and nose-rings.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:06 AM (xopIz)

127 It's a bit on the obvious side, but women can apparently control men using just a couple of square inches of their body. One of my favorite lines in MiB2 was when Lara Flynn Boyle says "Silly little planet. Anyone could take over the place with the right set of mammary glands."

https://tinyurl.com/6auup8w3

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (ZsR3z)

128 And pink or purple hair.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (xopIz)

129 Well, the vaccines against smallpox, and polio, and diptheria, and a number of other diseases worked. There was a reservoir of trust built up. The Seep State is exploiting that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM

Yep, if these vaccines actually worked there might be a bunch of people lining up for them.

In less than three months we went from, "the vaccines are 98% effective and you will not get covid and don't need to wear a mask if you are vaccinated" to "the vaccine will help you not get as sick as you would have if you were unvaccinated if you get covid", and finally "the vaccine will make your stay in the hospital from covid shorter than it would have been if you didn't get the jab" oh and "wear a mask because the vaccinated people spread covid more than unvaccinated people".

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (JUOKG)

130 113 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

Fashion!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

131 Didn't Dick Tracy have a videophone for a wrist watch?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:01 AM (ZHVt1)

He started out with a 2-way wrist radio, that got updated to a 2-way wrist TV circa 1960 or so.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Today it'd be an Apple Watch but only hate crimes could be reported. Any complaints about Antifa or BLM would be garbled in transmission.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (d9FiS)

132 44 I am puffing a pipe as we speak
Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 10:38 AM (/i32d)

call me

Posted by: shep at August 28, 2021 10:47 AM (uCLWI)

I knew that was setting up someone, but said it anyway.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 11:08 AM (/i32d)

133 I'm in a group of a dozen or so guys that went to the same collage at about the same time. We were all ROTC guys and are veterans. We zoom one day a week just to keep up. We all are more or less on the same page politically so it is a possibility that we are all on someones list. We instinctively know to keep the incendiary blather to a minimum. Hoping the numbers are in our favor.

Posted by: Javems at August 28, 2021 11:08 AM (8SSHh)

134 >>A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

https://tinyurl.com/56vzzwbk

Holy sh#t
The attorney for the father of the child said that they were shocked by the decision.

They said they agreed with it, however.

Riiight.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:08 AM (bDqIh)

135 I want my MTV
back
Posted by: rhennigantx

Here ya go.

https://tinyurl.com/usvebea9

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:08 AM (NYnSy)

136 Well obviously the big thing the futurists missed was the impending suicide of Western civilization and the ruling class's push towards a new, bureaucrat-enabled form of feudalism.

Posted by: somedood at August 28, 2021 11:09 AM (yVPr3)

137 I'm still waiting for my anatomically correct Hedy Lamarr robot

Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 11:09 AM (uCLWI)

138 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM

Fashion statement, let's the plebs know they are pilots.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 11:09 AM (JUOKG)

139 @137 The one with Frequency Hopping WiFI

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:10 AM (ZHVt1)

140 I played Lark Ascending for my son a few years ago, and now he absolutely loves Ralph Vaughan Williams. He's thirteen and can't stand popular music, he only likes classical and (some) new age music like Ray Lynch. I used to play Megadeth and Metallica for him but now his tastes have become more selective.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 28, 2021 11:10 AM (ynUnH)

141 What happened to Flugsteig I & II?

Posted by: klaftern at August 28, 2021 11:10 AM (r4sI4)

142 What happened to Flugsteig I & II?

They burned, fell over, and sank into the swamp.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:11 AM (z36Kd)

143 Chris Wallace is distancing himself from Biden. "It could be curtains for Biden"

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:11 AM (ZHVt1)

144 Fashion!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

Answering my own question? I think they were used by the artist to make the connection between the women and the airplane. Got to make them look like pilots! Same with the funnel mouthpieces on the videophones. Those were already dated in the 1930's, but the artist needed some visual cue that the system supported both sound and video.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:11 AM (hT9If)

145 They didn't know in the future you would be a pariah for smoking.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:12 AM (2DOZq)

146 Chris Wallace is distancing himself from Biden. "It could be curtains for Biden"
Posted by: Ignoramus

Pineapple, barbed wire, fire. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 11:12 AM (Kx3kq)

147 143 Chris Wallace is distancing himself from Biden. "It could be curtains for Biden"
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2021 11:11 AM (ZHVt1)

Wallace pulling out ?

no way

Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (uCLWI)

148 When watching Star Trek TNG, I always used to snort derisively whenever the Holodeck came up. We'd see Chief O'Brian being toted to sick bay because he'd broken his arm whitewater rafting in there, when we KNOW what all the men really be doing in there. Whitewater rafting, my eye.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (KF5Wg)

Geordie *was* banging a hologram woman at some point.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

Lets not forget Minuet, or "Min"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (VwHCD)

149 ha A real study:

Youre in the middle of your workout when you notice two equally attractive female lifters in need of help. Both are struggling to unload the plates off a barbell.

What do you do?

Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

150 Did they predict atheist chaplains, illiterate professors, and pseudo scientists?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (d9FiS)

151 Did one of those trading card predict farzrohr?

Posted by: f'd at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (Tnijr)

152 This is similar to original Star Trek technology. Number of items are in use today.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (2DOZq)

153 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?

Those aren't for flying. Those are patented Futuro-Vision Goggles. Should they land in sone dirty little corner that has not been swept into the rosy-hued future, you just pop those babies on and everything is art deco. Except Detroit and Baltimore. Those places are burnt-out husks even in the future. The goggles do nothing there.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 28, 2021 11:14 AM (QU5/8)

154 To Sydney, via Tehran and Colombo, Sri Lanka?

From Sydney, via Colombo and Tehran.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:14 AM (UMXod)

155 113 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

They are flying in to a Bukkake Shoot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (yrol0)

156
The performance of The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams is by violinist David Nolan with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (1rKU3)

157 Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (hT9If)

158 I played Lark Ascending for my son a few years ago, and now he absolutely loves Ralph Vaughan Williams. He's thirteen and can't stand popular music, he only likes classical and (some) new age music like Ray Lynch. I used to play Megadeth and Metallica for him but now his tastes have become more selective.
Posted by: Jim S. at August 28, 2021 11:10 AM (ynUnH)

Not surprising your boy went from Metal to classical. They have a lot in common. Before Cliff Burton died, Metallica's music had a great deal of influence from back in terms of the arrangements, point and counterpoint etc.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (1Yy3c)

159 If they move Kameltoe out, then maybe Joe will follow.

but not until then and probably never.

Biden has an overblown image of his legacy and importance

Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (uCLWI)

160 I think comments 148 and 149 are related.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (ynpvh)

161 "34 When you think a while about it there really isn't a lot that's revolutionary in the modern world outside computers, the application of logistics, agriculture, and chemistry.

All the ideas of futuristic transportation, exploring space, exploring the sea, fancy work-saving gadgets, life-saving medicine are mostly abandoned except for a few niche low impact areas.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 28, 2021 10:35 AM (20dZh)"

For every few navel gazers in the theoretical sciences, we have someone hard at work breaking important ground in physics, computer science, or practical math.

Stagnation in common tech is more a result of civilizational decay rather than lack of progress in understanding.

Posted by: somedood at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (yVPr3)

162 The Bidens aren't so good at pulling out.

Posted by: Hunter's two headed love child at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (ZHVt1)

163 They are flying in to a Bukkake Shoot.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (yrol0)

LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (hT9If)

164 I'm waiting for the replicators.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

You want replicators, you'll get truffles.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (NYnSy)

165 ha A real study:

Youre in the middle of your workout when you notice two equally attractive female lifters in need of help. Both are struggling to unload the plates off a barbell.

What do you do?

Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

Well WTF good is nature's own bat signal if you're just going to ignore it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (VwHCD)

166 155 113 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

They are flying in to a Bukkake Shoot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:15 AM (yrol0)

They'll need body comdoms then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

167 Weimar Germany -"I've seen the future, I can't afford it."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (qG51v)

168 But the need for fashion is eternal in Steampunk. /s

Sarcasm, I know. But in most if not all Steampunk I’ve seen, that need is met. Certainly doesn’t seem to be a dearth of brass or leather in those worlds.

Imagine this: there are 50 billion people in your Steampunk world. There are merely millions of leather-producing animals. You could write a story where the scarcity of leather causes people to die and destroys civilization.

That story might be interested when you write it. But it will become dated far more quickly than the story that realizes, this need will be solved. There will be another source of leather created to meet that need well before the destruction of civilization.

This is why all the various forms of Malthusian crisifiers are just really bad futurism. It makes a great scam today, but ten or twenty years down the line their predictions never come true.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (CX3cf)

169 Futurists get things somewhat right and somewhat wrong. They predicted videophones, teaching computers, and such but missed the extreme miniaturization that occurred which enabled smartphones and laptops vs. a phone in a box (which came and went in what, 10 months?) and "computers as small as a filing cabinet!"

They foresaw a revolution in transportation but totally missed in that no miniature power sources came about. Oh, we've gotten more efficient at squeezing power from a drop of gasoline or jetfuel, but that's just getting efficient, not making a 500 hp engine the size of a margarine tub that gets the equivalent of 500 mpg. Instead of a anti-grav cruise liner we get Airbus A-380s.

Posted by: George V at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (U2Tva)

170 Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

This science paid for with a $10,000,000 dollar government grant.

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (1Yy3c)

171 Grampa, what's a Bukkake?

Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (Xrfse)

172 Pardon me. I unconsciously noticed your nipples. May I help you?

Posted by: I don't think that's gonna work at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (Tnijr)

173 I remember the huge camcorders in the 80's . Now you can do the same on your phone. It is such an advance but I don't even notice unless it comes up in discussions such as these. Same with my first cell phone.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (2DOZq)

174 "2 of my favorite things, which I have never tried together. Hmmmm..."

Reminds me of a great scene in "Dallas." Someone is found floating in the pool and J.R. is sitting in the Sheriff's office. The Sheriff asks J.R. "What would you like in your coffee?"

J.R. replies "Bourbon."

You should try it sometime.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (xopIz)

175 >>Well, the vaccines against smallpox, and polio, and diptheria, and a number of other diseases worked. There was a reservoir of trust built up. The Seep State is exploiting that.

My current pet peeve is the HPV vaccines.
The ads for them are ridiculous. HPV is sexually transmitted and can lead to several types of cancer. The tv ads show parents stepping in front of their tween-aged kids and saying something like, "Not my kid, cancer!"

Ummmm. . . "cancer" is not trying to have sex with your kid, idiots. If you want to protect them against an STD try protecting them from predators, etc.. They think they can just skip the ugl part that takes place between a 12 year old and cancer, like HPV is just out there roaming the halls of their child's middle school or something.

https://www.hpv.com/

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:19 AM (bDqIh)

176 171 Grampa, what's a Bukkake?

Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (Xrfse)

What goes on in Congress...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

177 Did they predict atheist chaplains, illiterate professors, and pseudo scientists?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (d9FiS)

If they did, they would have likely said "better them than me".

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 11:19 AM (/i32d)

178 Posted by: George V at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (U2Tva)

We definitely could build miniature nuclear power sources but are prevented from doing so.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (2DOZq)

179 missed the extreme miniaturization that occurred which enabled smartphones and laptops vs. a phone in a box (which came and went in what, 10 months?) and "computers as small as a filing cabinet!"

-
Also Robert Reich.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (d9FiS)

180 There will be another source of leather created to meet that need well before the destruction of civilization.

"Leather is people!"

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (WLHrn)

181 A gravity transformer... hmmm... very interesting.

I have seen that shape of that bus in the second drawing in real life, less windows though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (r+sAi)

182 We definitely could build miniature nuclear power sources but are prevented from doing so.
Posted by: Just a side note

By Big Nuke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (d9FiS)

183 missed the extreme miniaturization that occurred which enabled smartphones and laptops vs. a phone in a box (which came and went in what, 10 months?) and "computers as small as a filing cabinet!"

-
Also Robert Reich.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (d9FiS)
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Also, smaller packages of food.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (2SdPm)

184 They foresaw a revolution in transportation but totally missed in that no miniature power sources came about. Oh, we've gotten more efficient at squeezing power from a drop of gasoline or jetfuel, but that's just getting efficient, not making a 500 hp engine the size of a margarine tub that gets the equivalent of 500 mpg. Instead of a anti-grav cruise liner we get Airbus A-380s.
Posted by: George V at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (U2Tva)

Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket. But reactors don't scale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)

185 182 We definitely could build miniature nuclear power sources but are prevented from doing so.
Posted by: Just a side note

By Big Nuke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:20 AM (d9FiS)

I vewwy interested in mini nukes. Where I find?

Posted by: Kimmy in (N) Korea at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

186 The rocket airship made laugh love peach supremacy.

I have loved other colors too.

Now am i lying.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (b6XqY)

187 My current pet peeve is the HPV vaccines.
The ads for them are ridiculous. HPV is sexually transmitted and can lead to several types of cancer. The tv ads show parents stepping in front of their tween-aged kids and saying something like, "Not my kid, cancer!"

Ummmm. . . "cancer" is not trying to have sex with your kid, idiots. If you want to protect them against an STD try protecting them from predators, etc.. They think they can just skip the ugl part that takes place between a 12 year old and cancer, like HPV is just out there roaming the halls of their child's middle school or something.

https://www.hpv.com/
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:19 AM (bDqIh)

I've got the same peeve. If I don't turn off those commercials I yell at the TV.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

188 I think Ayn Rand did a pretty good job of predicting what would happen in Atlas Shrugged. The Wreckers stiff where inferior people demand the business of successful people out of "fairness." And then when inevitably fail/destroy the business, they crow about how they weren;t given a fair shot, it wasn;t their fault blah blah blah.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (bDqIh)

189 They think they can just skip the ugl part that takes place between a 12 year old and cancer, like HPV is just out there roaming the halls of their child's middle school or something.

Far too much of modern leftist culture is about getting rid of the physical consequences of sex with kids, without addressing the “sex with kids” part. So much of the abortion industry, for example, seems specifically designed to ignore cases of rape, statutory rape, sex trafficking, and incest.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (CX3cf)

190 Breaking:

The Pentagon has said that two ISIS-K targets had been killed and one wounded in the drone strike responding to the suicide attack in Kabul, after earlier confirming only one kill.

At this rate of change, in a few more days the Pentagon (and Joe the American Troop Killer) will claim yesterday's single drone strike killed every ISIS leader and fighter in the world. Joe got revenge, folks! Now forget all about Afghanistan.

Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (AMIL/)

191 Maybe what many of us still get wrong is that we wait for a "hot war" to decide the ultimate outcome (against the DeepState, or China, or ?). But the ongoing war is (maybe) almost over. It was a culture war, and since at least 1965, they have pushed foreign cultures, and deliberately broken families and other Christian standards.

Now they tell us don't go outside even, wear a mask to conceal your facial expressions and any identity, only communicate over controlled media. For over a year the majority complied ... even church was shut down, routine hospital visits were stopped.

Bill Ayers saw the future was not in bombing, but in brainwashing the kids in the universities. That is just one front ... the bailouts for billionaires and expensive warfare has transferred "our wealth" to the oligarchs. They stole an election, still no shots fired. Surrender to the Taliban ... no shots fired.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2021 11:23 AM (Cus5s)

192 Lizzy, those HPV commercials years ago were not my first clue how evil gov't is. These people are truly horrible.

Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 11:23 AM (Kx3kq)

193 Have a book in collection my Mom rescued from an elementary library before being tossed into the rubbish bin. If it was true, it would terrify a whole Gruppen of Karenwaffen.

Two young children with jet powered flying suits going to visit the grandparents.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2021 11:23 AM (qG51v)

194 184 They foresaw a revolution in transportation but totally missed in that no miniature power sources came about. Oh, we've gotten more efficient at squeezing power from a drop of gasoline or jetfuel, but that's just getting efficient, not making a 500 hp engine the size of a margarine tub that gets the equivalent of 500 mpg. Instead of a anti-grav cruise liner we get Airbus A-380s.
Posted by: George V at August 28, 2021 11:17 AM (U2Tva)

Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket. But reactors don't scale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)

Yup. It is, however, possible to make tiny nuclear batteries that generate electricity from radioactive nickel. You don't get much power out of them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

195 I remember the huge camcorders in the 80's . Now you can do the same on your phone. It is such an advance but I don't even notice unless it comes up in discussions such as these. Same with my first cell phone.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM

The first cellphones cost over $4,000 and were pretty much useless outside of large Cities when they first came out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (JUOKG)

196 Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)

Okay, who ate the uranium?!?

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (1Yy3c)

197 Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket. But reactors don't scale.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)
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Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?

It seems to me it's more about politics than it is physics.

But, I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, so, I'm aware that I could be very wrong.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

198 That should be Wallace pulling off, not pulling out...

Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (+56GQ)

199 I remember meeting the city telephone operator. From what I remember, she worked during the day routing calls and at night it was all party line unless the mayor declared an emergency. Pretty young woman, and I was impressed. Lily Tomlin killed that memory for me.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2021 10:53 AM (MIKMs)

Mom ran a plugboard at the Naval Hospital exchange at Camp Adair at the end of the war and a while afterwards, and later the phone exchange in town.

A lot of the small towns here kept the plugboard exchanges because it meant there was an emergency operator on hand over night that was paid for by the phone company and not by the town.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (HG00O)

200 Governor Perry attempted to make HPV vaccine mandatory. That's when you could have guessed he was a former Democrat.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2DOZq)

201 187 My current pet peeve is the HPV vaccines.
The ads for them are ridiculous. HPV is sexually transmitted and can lead to several types of cancer. The tv ads show parents stepping in front of their tween-aged kids and saying something like, "Not my kid, cancer!"

Ummmm. . . "cancer" is not trying to have sex with your kid, idiots. If you want to protect them against an STD try protecting them from predators, etc.. They think they can just skip the ugl part that takes place between a 12 year old and cancer, like HPV is just out there roaming the halls of their child's middle school or something.

https://www.hpv.com/
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:19 AM (bDqIh)

I've got the same peeve. If I don't turn off those commercials I yell at the TV.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

Although I have to chuckle when they list oral cancer and anal cancer. Yeah, well don't poke uncovered things in there, or suck on the wrong things uncovered if you don't want that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

202 Yeah, but HPV vaccines actually work, and it's a legitimate danger to women.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 28, 2021 11:26 AM (+56GQ)

203 Mrs. Sock and I and two grandkids. Tag team grandparenting. As always, they will outlast us. Mrs. Sock already called dibs on who gets to share naptime.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:26 AM (NYnSy)

204 I'm still waiting for my anatomically correct Hedy Lamarr robot
Posted by: REDACTED at August 28, 2021 11:09 AM

That's Hedley!

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (R/Z7w)

205 @54 sign me up

Why my attraction to Steely Dan, Jeff Beck...
even Tom Brady

'twas followed on my feed by Beck Hammerhead.

Ah, to have a world driven by our best impulses.

Every day.

Posted by: micky at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (3byMq)

206 The first cellphones cost over $4,000 and were pretty much useless outside of large Cities when they first came out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (JUOKG)

My first cell phone was a huge Motorola and roaming charges were expensive. International calls? Hah no way.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (2DOZq)

207 Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?

It seems to me it's more about politics than it is physics.

But, I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, so, I'm aware that I could be very wrong.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

Pretty sure you need to have a critical mass of fissionable material before you can get a self-sustaining chain reaction. And then you need moderators, and shielding, and heat-exchange plumbing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (hT9If)

208 I think Ayn Rand did a pretty good job of predicting what would happen in Atlas Shrugged. The Wreckers stiff where inferior people demand the business of successful people out of "fairness." And then when inevitably fail/destroy the business, they crow about how they weren;t given a fair shot, it wasn;t their fault blah blah blah.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (bDqIh)
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The thing that shocked me most about "Atlas Shrugged" was Ann knowing of the shale oil deposits in CO. At least, I believe that's what she referred to with Wyatt Oil.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (2SdPm)

209 The Pentagon has said that two ISIS-K targets had been killed and one wounded in the drone strike

At this rate, Gen. Mark Milley is going to run out of room on his chest!

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (3fR4G)

210 Well...if you don't like it....go make your own retro future....you out of date steam punk.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (b6XqY)

211 A judge has stripped a mother of parental rights for not vaccinating.

https://tinyurl.com/56vzzwbk
Posted by: Ordinary American

A white woman. Of course her kids are taken.

Black women who won't vax are okay, though. Exempt.

The tyranny is for the white people.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (OssQ4)

212
There is such a push here for lotty-dotty, every-damn-body to get vaccinated. Gov Ivey has gone full retard in blaming the unvaccinated for the rise in cases, along with every medical "authority" in the state. This terrifies me to no end to see what's happening across the country.
Posted by: Trog04 at August 28, 2021 10:56 AM (T2s1D)

Fun game: Every time you see Unvaxxed or some equivalent, substitute the word "Jew" and see if it would fit in 1930's propaganda.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (HG00O)

213 Micro-nukes?

Well about 1,000 RTGs loaded with stuff like Strontium-90 are lost in the former Soviet Union's vast territory.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (qG51v)

214 That should be Wallace pulling off, not pulling out...
Posted by: FriscoYoda

Always pictured Chrissie as the reciever not the giver.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (NYnSy)

215 196 Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)

Okay, who ate the uranium?!?

Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones - 6 Days until the new Iron Maiden album at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (1Yy3c)

I didn't open up the can before the expiration date; now half my uranium is gone! Angel's share?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

216 Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?

It seems to me it's more about politics than it is physics.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

Well there's a certain amount of fissile mass that you need before you can get criticality. That's the starting point; if you need (spitballing) 20kg of mass, you aren't going to get that into a coin battery form factor.

There are other possibilities like radioisotope thermal generators I guess, but I haven't got any of those handy so I can't say.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (ghoDT)

217 The first cellphones cost over $4,000 and were pretty much useless outside of large Cities when they first came out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (JUOKG)

My first cell phone was a huge Motorola and roaming charges were expensive. International calls? Hah no way.
Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (2DOZq)

Back in the day, I traveled a lot. We would rent those cell phones from Hertz along with a car.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:29 AM (AiZBA)

218 They foresaw a revolution in transportation but totally missed in that no miniature power sources came about. Oh, we've gotten more efficient at squeezing power from a drop of gasoline or jetfuel, but that's just getting efficient, not making a 500 hp engine the size of a margarine tub that gets the equivalent of 500 mpg. Instead of a anti-grav cruise liner we get Airbus A-380s.

And when the world runs on space-based solar and fusion, will you acknowledge progress?

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 11:29 AM (ZsR3z)

219 This is a not-bad Bill Maher segment, here (on being thankful to be an American):

https://tinyurl.com/dhc799pr

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 11:30 AM (nzEdf)

220 I took the JJ vaccine back in March after the local health dept. sent me a warning there had been a complaint I didn't always wear my mask when no one was around, and said if they had another complaint my business would be shut down. I had a host of reactions that went on for several months. Mostly gone now, but I was seriously ill for a long time. Two different docs agreed the symptoms were those they had seen as a result of the vaccines. I am 80 and have no medical conditions so did not consider myself as high risk and had previous reactions to a vaccine. I will never take another Covid jab.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:30 AM (/uaBM)

221 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

"It's called fashion, Olivia. You should try it"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:30 AM (HG00O)

222 Micro-nukes?

Well about 1,000 RTGs loaded with stuff like Strontium-90 are lost in the former Soviet Union's vast territory.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Meh. I'd settle for a squadron of A-10s with no rules of engagement.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:30 AM (NYnSy)

223 >>I've got the same peeve. If I don't turn off those commercials I yell at the TV.

Glad I'm not the only one.

They intentionally sexualize kids and then pressure you to get them vaccines against STDs, access to birth control and abortions -- and pretend they care about your kid's health, such as cancer.

No, no you don't.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:31 AM (bDqIh)

224 197 Some things just don't scale. If you shrank the U.S.S. Enterprise down to the size of a rowboat, the nuclear reactor would be smaller than a lunchbucket. But reactors don't scale.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:21 AM (hT9If)
------------

Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?

It seems to me it's more about politics than it is physics.

But, I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, so, I'm aware that I could be very wrong.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

Can't compress atoms, only the space between them, and compressing radioactive atoms does have consequences (e.g. Kaboom!). The more radioactive, the faster the decay and the more important protections and handling is needed, adding bulk and weight.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

225 Well, there are radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are small enough to fit on spacecraft.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 28, 2021 11:31 AM (+56GQ)

226 I didn't open up the can before the expiration date; now half my uranium is gone! Angel's share?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

Physics jokes are the best jokes.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:31 AM (AiZBA)

227 "Leather is people!"

I love the movie. The book is very strange. Harrison seems to have always said, when asked, that it’s about overpopulation. But there really isn’t any overpopulation in his book. At the end of the book he tells us what the US population is—it’s less than twice what it was when the book was published.

What Harrison’s world really looks like is a world that believed the fear mongering of the expert class. The reason cities are hellholes is that there is no progress or maintenance. And the reason for that is, people are relying too much on government. There’s a long-running subplot about all the ways welfare is killing initiative and diverting work and thought toward getting more welfare.

Everyone in the book is spouting the expert-class lunacy about overpopulation, while acting like the real problem is how they’ve chosen to fight it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 11:32 AM (CX3cf)

228 At this rate, Gen. Mark Milley is going to run out of room on his chest!

Not so! He's got lots of acreage available on his dorsal side.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 11:32 AM (ZsR3z)

229 "Pentagon has said that two ISIS-K targets had been killed and one wounded in the drone strike responding to the suicide attack in Kabul, after earlier confirming only one kill."

good grief ... my "impression" was they hit a whole camp, killed maybe 50. The suicide bombers killed ? 70 or so?

Bannon said the Pentagon (or someone) had the plan back in April, not a plan to get Americans out, but a plan to bring in tens of thousands of Afghans. Opening our borders to the anti-American world is their mission, and maybe destroying our credibility around the world in another part of their plan. The globalists are at war with Americanism (sovereign liberty) ... not sure just where China fits in, except we are the enemy of both of them.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2021 11:32 AM (Cus5s)

230 There is such a push here for lotty-dotty, every-damn-body to get vaccinated. Gov Ivey has gone full retard in blaming the unvaccinated for the rise in cases, along with every medical "authority" in the state. This terrifies me to no end to see what's happening across the country.
Posted by: Trog04

But it's not everyone being shamed. Only the stupid white hicks and MAGA people are being called out. Nobody's writing and tweeting about "stupid ghetto people" not vaccinating. Despite the fact that more than 70% refuse. I wonder why?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 28, 2021 11:33 AM (OssQ4)

231 Last night we had hot dogs for dinner and a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes. I had 2.

I just had another hot dog and then realized there was leftover taco meat in the fridge so I also had a "chili" dog (taco dog?).

I'm not sure what adding taco meat or chili does to the life expectancy, but it was nice to have made all y'alls acquaintance.

Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2021 11:33 AM (U1eOr)

232 Micro-nukes?

Well about 1,000 RTGs loaded with stuff like Strontium-90 are lost in the former Soviet Union's vast territory.
Posted by: Anna Puma

A Rad a day keeps the doctor away.

Waaaayyyy away!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 11:33 AM (axyOa)

233 Well, there are radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are small enough to fit on spacecraft.
Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 28, 2021 11:31 AM (+56GQ)

But they run the radios and the instruments. They don't run the rockets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:33 AM (hT9If)

234 @MarinaMedvin

Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

https://tinyurl.com/yg96tu53

Retired?! Hahahaha...yeah, right.

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:34 AM (cF8AT)

235 And then when inevitably fail/destroy the business, they crow about how they weren;t given a fair shot, it wasn;t their fault blah blah blah.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 11:22 AM (bDqIh)

Yup....I read something she had said a few years ago about how the 5 year plans in the Soviet Union never panned out and that it was always sabotage or the CIA or drunkenness or Kulaks to blame and that the next 5 year plan they would get it right.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 28, 2021 11:35 AM (R/m4+)

236 We really are in a dystopian hell, aren't we? Truth actually is stranger then fiction it seems.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:35 AM (/uaBM)

237 I want the dynamism and optimism back. "Out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting".

I also want the sleek designs from when they anticipated everyone being their own space jock(ette). The current baseline of cargo shorts/crocs is a drag.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at August 28, 2021 11:35 AM (Dc2NZ)

238 If rock stars could use nuclear powered amplifiers they'd be fission musicians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (d9FiS)

239 The Taliban laugh at our peeves but they have no peeves nor pets unless you consider humans as pets.

Taliban peeve....accidentally dig a fox hole over a mass grave again.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (b6XqY)

240 That's my concern. I'm not sick. Why would I want to risk my health with a vaccine that has known side effects? And there's no benefit to it. They still want you to mask up and all the other nonsense.

No side effects with ivermectin for me and the other supplements build my immune system.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (YynYJ)

241 Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

But they can still blame it on Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (NYnSy)

242 I wonder why?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 28, 2021 11:33 AM (OssQ4)

'cause they all have faux vaxx cards?

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (DJFLF)

243 I wish some of the lousy drivers I see every day had flying cars so they could fly the hell away into a mountainside.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:37 AM (/uaBM)

244 234 @MarinaMedvin

Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

https://tinyurl.com/yg96tu53

Retired?! Hahahaha...yeah, right.

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:34 AM (cF8AT)

Plenty of retired officers, I'm sure, will tell Biden to suck Kamala's dick.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:37 AM (ynpvh)

245 I know who fucked up my 5 year plan.

Posted by: f'd at August 28, 2021 11:37 AM (Tnijr)

246 221 Why are the lady pilots sporting goggles, if they were flying in a completely enclosed airplane?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:02 AM (hT9If)

"It's called fashion, Olivia. You should try it"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:30 AM (HG00O)
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You never know when a spate of impromptu welding might break out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at August 28, 2021 11:37 AM (Dc2NZ)

247 to believe that the Biden administration that completely clusterfucked the Kabul evacuation after months of "planning" was able to find the single person in the entire geography of Afghanistan that planned and directed this suicide bombing in 24 hours requires a level of stupid sufficiently enough to qualify as mentally retarded.

Posted by: BluesFish at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (kPJ/p)

248 Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

But they can still blame it on Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (NYnSy)
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Meanwhile, those same jackasses outright defied orders from PDT.

*Deep Calming Breath So As to Avoid Posting Anything Leading to a Ban*

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (2SdPm)

249 I remember the huge camcorders in the 80's . Now you can do the same on your phone. It is such an advance but I don't even notice unless it comes up in discussions such as these. Same with my first cell phone.
Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (2DOZq)

sewing machine sized reel-to-reel tape recorder with the miles of narrow tape, is not as useful as an MP3 player and ear buds I can stick in my watch pocket, and play for 16 hours, and has a better microphone than the one I used on my Tandy cassette deck in the 90's

Of course I still have a flip phone

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (HG00O)

250 Steam Punk is in need of a makeover.

Posted by: klaftern at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (r4sI4)

251 @MarinaMedvin

Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

https://tinyurl.com/yg96tu53

Retired?! Hahahaha...yeah, right.
Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:34 AM (cF8AT)
***
Technically, if I recall correctly, you are still in the Service but merely moved from the active roles to the retired roles. Hence, the part of UCMJ that applies is "Contemptuous words and phrases" directed against the CinC.
Yeah, try enforcing that, assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (axyOa)

252 243 I wish some of the lousy drivers I see every day had flying cars so they could fly the hell away into a mountainside.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:37 AM (/uaBM)

I told myself that if every there was a ice day on the roads here, I'd stay home and let all the idiots kill themselves. Change of that here? close to zero.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

253 to believe that the Biden administration that completely clusterfucked the Kabul evacuation after months of "planning" was able to find the single person in the entire geography of Afghanistan that planned and directed this suicide bombing in 24 hours requires a level of stupid sufficiently enough to qualify as mentally retarded.
Posted by: BluesFish at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (kPJ/p)

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The State Dept. probably told the Taliban to tell the US who it was and the Taliban probably gave up an innocent third party, because, hey, human life is cheap, as far as they are concerned.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (2SdPm)

254 Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.

But they can still blame it on Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (NYnSy)
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Meanwhile, those same jackasses outright defied orders from PDT.

*Deep Calming Breath So As to Avoid Posting Anything Leading to a Ban*
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (2SdPm)
***
But those 200 generals and admirals writing about Trump, totes OK.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 11:40 AM (axyOa)

255 216 Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?

It seems to me it's more about politics than it is physics.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

Well there's a certain amount of fissile mass that you need before you can get criticality. That's the starting point; if you need (spitballing) 20kg of mass, you aren't going to get that into a coin battery form factor.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 11:28 AM (ghoDT)

I can get it to that form factor!

Posted by: Fat Man Implosion System at August 28, 2021 11:40 AM (AMIL/)

256 250 Steam Punk is in need of a makeover.
Posted by: klaftern at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (r4sI4)

There's always AtomPunk:

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Atompunk?file=Atom7.jpg

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at August 28, 2021 11:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

257 The State Dept. probably told the Taliban to tell the US who it was and the Taliban probably gave up an innocent third party, because, hey, human life is cheap, as far as they are concerned.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (2SdPm)

Cockadoodle doooooo.

Posted by: The US State Department at August 28, 2021 11:40 AM (AiZBA)

258 236 We really are in a dystopian hell, aren't we? Truth actually is stranger then fiction it seems.

We vastly empowered the central government during WW2 - and never scaled it back. The Cold War kept them busy for a while - or it would have turned on us sooner. We would all be better off if the USSR never collapsed.

Posted by: Same Old Cliches at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (qV3Xe)

259 I told myself that if every there was a ice day on the roads here, I'd stay home and let all the idiots kill themselves. Change of that here? close to zero.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (ynpvh)
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My daughter is visiting us here in CA, and I had to tell her to be wary of two things when driving, 1, red lights are considered suggestions and, two, signal are now optional.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (2SdPm)

260 ...they cannot condemn Joe Biden over his Afghanistan failures.
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Well, yeah, because they're not his failures. He's not in charge. He's not even in charge of who he calls on in a press conference.

I want some reporter to ask him when he says he was told to call on someone, "Mr. President, who is telling you what to do? Who is in charge?". That would make my week.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (OssQ4)

261 RTGs are perfectly insidious for cold places like Afghanistan since they radiate heat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (qG51v)

262 Now this unvaxxed brutha over here, he *did* attract the attention of the Coof Stasi because he violated the..."Protocols"

link goes to NFL player tw@tter:

https://tinyurl.com/26kp8r2h

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (DJFLF)

263 Don't like it? Make your own Navy!

*starts designing steampunk uniforms and submarines*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (Dc2NZ)

264 @247 They may have asked our people in Kabul where to find ISIS-K. Our people on the ground know a lot but haven't been listened to.

Word is that we had 1000 ISIS-K jalied at Bagram who escaped after we abandoned it.

Posted by: Hunter's two headed love child at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (ZHVt1)

265 The State Dept. probably told the Taliban to tell the US who it was and the Taliban probably gave up an innocent third party, because, hey, human life is cheap, as far as they are concerned.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (2SdPm)
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someone in the taliban gave up the location of his ex wife.

Posted by: BluesFish at August 28, 2021 11:42 AM (kPJ/p)

266 Is that wrong?

Whichever one is not wearing a wedding ring is the one I would help.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:42 AM (xopIz)

267 off boggy sock

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (AiZBA)

268
No side effects with ivermectin for me and the other supplements build my immune system.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward

Going to start taking it as a precaution. Apparently my nephew's wife has been in the hospital for 3 days with Covid. They live below us. My wife's older sister, who lives above us, tested positive and was sick all last week. My nephew's SIL has been sick and also tested positive. I have been exposed multiple times to each of them. Mrs. Sock just told me this. Apparently I am the Rodney Dangerfield of the family.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (NYnSy)

269 259 I told myself that if every there was a ice day on the roads here, I'd stay home and let all the idiots kill themselves. Change of that here? close to zero.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (ynpvh)
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My daughter is visiting us here in CA, and I had to tell her to be wary of two things when driving, 1, red lights are considered suggestions and, two, signal are now optional.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (2SdPm)

I once had some idiot in front of me at a red light decide he wanted to go in reverse. I had a car behind me. Despite honking the horn vigorously, he still hit me. He gets out of the car, shocked that someone was behind him; ever use a rear-view mirror, idiot?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (ynpvh)

270 Lucky for the esteemed members of the press that they are not retired military or they would be in the deep shit. Seems at least some are starting to say bad things about Slow Joe's Afghan adventure, which is quite a sea change. Wonder how they'll like Camelbutt as Pres?

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (/uaBM)

271 someone in the taliban gave up the location of his ex wife.
Posted by: BluesFish at August 28, 2021 11:42 AM (kPJ/p)
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Made me laugh, but, why would a member of the Taliban deny himself the pleasure of an honor killing?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (2SdPm)

272 Thanks for the reto future even though it is late Mr K.T.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (b6XqY)

273 BiL had a book on blueprint of the starship Enterprise so someone figured out how it's lay out

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (fzbby)

274 Cole Beasley, another NFL player replies to unvaxxed brutha Isaiah:

https://tinyurl.com/h8fba3p3

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (DJFLF)

275 One thing I've always hated in the future is people going 900 kph in the fast lane. Get out of the way, grandpa!

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:44 AM (z36Kd)

276 Warning Math to follow

1903 first flight to 1969 moon landing a mere 66 years . One generation .

1972 first personal computer to 2010 I-pad a mere 38 years .

Never say never.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:44 AM (2DOZq)

277 One thing I've always hated in the future is people going 900 kph in the fast lane. Get out of the way, grandpa!
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:44 AM (z36Kd)

LOL

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 28, 2021 11:44 AM (AiZBA)

278 275 One thing I've always hated in the future is people going 900 kph in the fast lane. Get out of the way, grandpa!

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:44 AM (z36Kd)

The sonic booms will blow you over!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

279 Made me laugh, but, why would a member of the Taliban deny himself the pleasure of an honor killing?
Posted by: blake -

Even the Taliban have cukes?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 28, 2021 11:45 AM (NYnSy)

280 I remember the huge camcorders in the 80's . Now you can do the same on your phone. It is such an advance but I don't even notice unless it comes up in discussions such as these. Same with my first cell phone.
Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:18 AM (2DOZq)

were cam corders even a thing in the 80s? I guess so but i recall them mostly from the early 90s. I recall a good set buy Norm Coleman about when cameras took pictures and phones were for calling someone. Today we use our phones for pictures and and calling is something weird.

I laugh at all of it because people think they control the technology, when the opposite is the truth. Even if everyone knew this, they would not change a thing.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 11:45 AM (/i32d)

281 Pretty sure you need to have a critical mass of fissionable material before you can get a self-sustaining chain reaction. And then you need moderators, and shielding, and heat-exchange plumbing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (hT9If)

I am not a nuke, but I believe the critical mass could be side stepped if you were able to refocus or reflect the fast neutrons. Which I am not sure we can do yet. If it is possible I suspect nuke plants could get tiny

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:45 AM (HG00O)

282 We vastly empowered the central government during WW2 - and never scaled it back. The Cold War kept them busy for a while - or it would have turned on us sooner. We would all be better off if the USSR never collapsed.
Posted by: Same Old Cliches at August 28, 2021 11:41 AM (qV3Xe)

Excellent point. Almost every problem we have as a country can be traced to the idiots in washington dc.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 28, 2021 11:46 AM (R/m4+)

283 I feel like the soundtrack of my current timeline is Sly Stone's riff:

"and so on and so on and shooby dooby doo...oooh...sha-sha"

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 11:46 AM (DJFLF)

284 2019 America becoming great again. 2021 America turning into a third world shithole Two years.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:47 AM (/uaBM)

285 to believe that the Biden administration that completely clusterfucked the Kabul evacuation after months of "planning" was able to find the single person in the entire geography of Afghanistan that planned and directed this suicide bombing in 24 hours requires a level of stupid sufficiently enough to qualify as mentally retarded.

Either that, or we knew who was likely to do something like this, but did nothing, because, you know, that breeds more terrorists.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 11:47 AM (ZsR3z)

286 If rock stars could use nuclear powered amplifiers they'd be fission musicians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 28, 2021 11:36 AM (d9FiS)

Funny, somebody had nicknamed one of my amps the Atom Smasher.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (VwHCD)

287 "Fun game: Every time you see Unvaxxed or some equivalent, substitute the word "Jew" and see if it would fit in 1930's propaganda."

I should sew a yellow star of David (or most likely use a safety pin) on my shirt when I go to Mass.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (xopIz)

288 @montaga

NWO Ground Zero is in Australia! Watch Video (1 of 2)

https://tinyurl.com/yzwcc7f2

Video #2 is just underneath it.

Well spoken and she's very pretty too!

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (cF8AT)

289 Emmanual Goldstein did it!

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (/uaBM)

290 I am not a nuke, but I believe the critical mass could be side stepped if you were able to refocus or reflect the fast neutrons.

Yes, but you'd need them to pulse rhythmically, IOW doing the neutron dance.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2021 11:49 AM (ZsR3z)

291 Mr BlueFish...love and missiles are so complicated.

That ex wife joke is a very professional. Thank you for the laughing spit.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:49 AM (b6XqY)

292 "Does nuclear power not scale due to physics or lack of research into how to make it scale?"

I have no clue on details, but Gates was working on refrigerator sized nuke plants for communities, as I recall. Put them on a small lot under a lot of concrete to avoid terrorists I guess, and eliminate some of those massive high power lines .. and maybe power up all Africa?
(but maybe he decided that would be another couple billion people that needed resources, so he decided to instead kill a few billion via his faulty vaccine plans ... like he already attempted in Africa and India?)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2021 11:49 AM (Cus5s)

293 281 Pretty sure you need to have a critical mass of fissionable material before you can get a self-sustaining chain reaction. And then you need moderators, and shielding, and heat-exchange plumbing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (hT9If)

I am not a nuke, but I believe the critical mass could be side stepped if you were able to refocus or reflect the fast neutrons. Which I am not sure we can do yet. If it is possible I suspect nuke plants could get tiny

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:45 AM (HG00O)

Being neutral, you have to use other means to focus them or reflect them back, e.g. geometry of materials and materials science. Or just bend space.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

294 Where's my laser lawn mower? I should have gotten one by now.

Apropos to the topic, Todd Rundgren, "Future". One of my favorite videos.

https://tinyurl.com/y5ra9z2x

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 28, 2021 11:51 AM (OssQ4)

295 The very basic premise upon which our economy is built: access to cheap energy, and, our politics have done everything it can to destroy that access.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (2SdPm)

296 288 @montaga
NWO Ground Zero is in Australia! Watch Video (1 of 2)
https://tinyurl.com/yzwcc7f2
Video #2 is just underneath it.
Well spoken and she's very pretty too!
Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (cF8AT)

If only the Aussies were armed. Too bad the Gov't took their guns away for their own protection.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

297 Very tiny amounts of antimatter could power a city. Scales down to the nanometer level. Problem solved. It's what the UFO people use. Probably.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (/uaBM)

298 Until we have singularity-powered gravity drives in every F-150, it's not the future. Am I going to work today or to a place beyond good and evil? Every day a terrifying space-time adventure.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (QU5/8)

299 Technically, if I recall correctly, you are still in the Service but merely moved from the active roles to the retired roles. Hence, the part of UCMJ that applies is "Contemptuous words and phrases" directed against the CinC.
Yeah, try enforcing that, assholes.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 11:39 AM (axyOa)

Now do the 200 retired generals that spoke out against Trump.

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (cF8AT)

300
Everyone in the book is spouting the expert-class lunacy about overpopulation, while acting like the real problem is how they've chosen to fight it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 11:32 AM (CX3cf)

The famines caused by Mao's collectivization and his Great Leap Forward, and the extreme collectivization in the Cultural Revolution were blamed on the population being too high, and the one child policy was created to "solve" the problem of over population.

And all the cool intellectual Maoist fuckwads took that as gospel and are trying to push it on the wold, and blame the idea on Malthus.

No one has read Malthus

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (HG00O)

301 Two redneck teenagers have already built nuclear reactors. I don't know what power they were capable of producing but I'm thinking they weren't very big.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (2DOZq)

302 NWO Ground Zero is in Australia! Watch Video (1 of 2)
https://tinyurl.com/yzwcc7f2
Video #2 is just underneath it.
Well spoken and she's very pretty too!
Posted by: Tami

Tami is very right on both points. I liked "Go ahead... You don't need a gov't mandate to be a neurotic recluse."

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (WLHrn)

303 If only the Aussies were armed. Too bad the Gov't took their guns away for their own protection.

The Aussies mostly willingly turned them in when told. The few Aussies I've met lack a badly needed obstinate streak.

Posted by: Same Old Cliches at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (qV3Xe)

304 Very tiny amounts of antimatter could power a city. Scales down to the nanometer level. Problem solved. It's what the UFO people use. Probably.
Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (/uaBM)
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Yeah, but, creating anti matter requires the energy input of a small nuclear reactor, so....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 28, 2021 11:54 AM (2SdPm)

305 t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:14 AM

Thanks. Glad somebody around here knows some German.

I'll fix it.

Posted by: KT at August 28, 2021 11:54 AM (BVQ+1)

306 297 Very tiny amounts of antimatter could power a city. Scales down to the nanometer level. Problem solved. It's what the UFO people use. Probably.

Posted by: Ruthless at August 28, 2021 11:52 AM (/uaBM)

yes, but how to acquire it? How to contain it? It could power a city, but also level it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

307 You don't need a gov't mandate to be a neurotic recluse."
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (WLHrn)

Yeah, that was perfect!

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:55 AM (cF8AT)

308 Cole Beasely was a woke, BLM, tear it down fan. If I have this wrong, please call me out. But I recall Beasely being a leftist who rubbed our faces in his wonderfulness.

He was a beloved Cowboy playing in the Lone Star State. Now he plays for the also ran Bills, the kings of going to the Super Bowl and never winning it. He plays and earns his money in New York. Now he is anti vaxx and surprised he is getting shit. Wake up call my man, decisions have consequences.

Posted by: Quint at August 28, 2021 11:57 AM (/i32d)

309 Steam Punk is in need of a makeover.
Posted by: klaftern at August 28, 2021 11:38 AM (r4sI4)

Steam punk for the 1950's: everything is aqua and metal fleck maroon, and shaped like a 1959 Impala with leather seats.

Nom!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:58 AM (HG00O)

310 LOL This is GREAT.

I have some yellow felt leftover from a project wifey made me do.

I cut out a Star of David. I have safety pins.

When I go to Mass tomorrow without a mask, if anyone says anything about it I will pull the star and pin out of my pocket and say "Oh, would you help me put this on?"

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:59 AM (xopIz)

311 ISS CoCo Puffs.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 11:59 AM (b6XqY)

312 "Fun game: Every time you see Unvaxxed or some equivalent, substitute the word "Jew" and see if it would fit in 1930's propaganda."

Or play it in reverse: start with the Nuremberg Laws and substitute "Jew" with "unvaxxed" to see how many restrictions already apply and how many more are being added every week.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 12:00 PM (KF5Wg)

313 Is Skip here?

I'd like to inform he missed a FIRST! on the gardening and puttering thread.

Posted by: kallisto at August 28, 2021 12:00 PM (DJFLF)

314 Ralph Vaughn-Williams' music is always so beautiful. Much of it is based on English folk tunes, or has motifs from traditional English songs. I wouldn't rank him up with Bach or Mendelssohn, but his music is wonderful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2021 12:01 PM (KZzsI)

315 “Back in 1900 it was possible to foresee cars going 70 miles an hour, but the drivers were imagined as daredevils rather than grandmothers.”—Harlan D. Mills, BASIC with style, Foreword

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2021 12:02 PM (CX3cf)

316 Or play it in reverse

Ooh, that would be a good one. Find Nazi accounts, ordinances, and proclamations from the 30's. Change the dates to 2021 or 2022 and the Jüden to the unvaxxed.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:03 PM (8eSmR)

317 Or play it in reverse: start with the Nuremberg Laws and substitute "Jew" with "unvaxxed" to see how many restrictions already apply and how many more are being added every week.

I've noticed the smug "come on guys, just wear a mask, its no big deal" crowd doesn't post that shit much anymore.

Posted by: Same Old Cliches at August 28, 2021 12:03 PM (qV3Xe)

318 Gardening Thread

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2021 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

319 I have the link to a great video by Dr. Ryan Cole. 31 minutes. Well worth the time. Coercion and using experiment treatments on humans.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/NLNNXKKqgMzo/

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 12:07 PM (xopIz)

320 >>a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes. I had 2.

Oh, BS. The globalists/Greenies are gunning for meat and dairy, so we will be hearing all sorts of scare studies about how bad they are for us, the environment, etc. in the next few years. The propaganda has become so dang obvious in recent years.

You want to know what's bad for you, check out the label for frankenfoods like oat milk and that new fake beef. IIRC, the "impossibe burgers" includes a lab-created soy protein or yeast - so not simply a veggie burger. I;d like to know how healthy it is to consume that kind of stuff vs. hot dogs.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2021 12:08 PM (bDqIh)

321 May i propose a name change for globalist....

TacoBellist. Its more demeaning.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 12:12 PM (b6XqY)

322 My Twat-Propaganda right now:
Who is eligible to compete in the Paralympics?

Weary of turmoil and political division, most teens still voice faith in the future

Meet the Trailblazing Afghan Girls Robotics Team Welcomed to Mexico

Liverpool vs Chelsea

#WakandaForever

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2021 12:13 PM (ufFY8)

323 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes. I had 2.

Every day decreases my life by twenty-four hours.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:14 PM (8eSmR)

324 I think that moving away from putting everything - clothes irons, computers, telephones, kitchen appliances - in clear acrylic housings (available in an array of friendly colors) was a terrible idea.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 12:15 PM (ghoDT)

325 Fuck your hotdog death cult.

Time spent fishing is not deductible from your life.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 12:17 PM (b6XqY)

326 My oldest brother had a quadruple bypass and stopped eating and drinking everything that is nice and licit (licit means "approved by God")

If I ever get in that state I will go preach the Gospel in Mecca.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 12:17 PM (xopIz)

327 pep at August 28, 2021 11:47 AM

I think Lara Logan is onto something.

Posted by: KT at August 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BVQ+1)

328 Every day decreases my life by twenty-four hours.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:14 PM
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25+ hours if you ate 2 hot dogs, apparently.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at August 28, 2021 12:18 PM (QCmNb)

329 the plant is a Vygie....sucks fake wrong thread

Posted by: FundMe at August 28, 2021 12:22 PM (e5IqU)

330 273 BiL had a book on blueprint of the starship Enterprise so someone figured out how it's lay out

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 28, 2021 11:43 AM (fzbby)

I have a set of the Enterprise blueprints from the 70s.
I am building it in Minecraft, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2021 12:22 PM (ufFY8)

331 25+ hours if you ate 2 hot dogs, apparently.
Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at August 28, 2021 12:18 PM (QCmNb)

What is that in hot dog years?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021 12:22 PM (ghoDT)

332 Not surprising your boy went from Metal to classical. They have a lot in common. Before Cliff Burton died, Metallica's music had a great deal of influence from back in terms of the arrangements, point and counterpoint etc.
Posted by: Robert, Sans Pantalones

Dude, check out Lovebites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBhtqgiXEA4

Posted by: Jim S. at August 28, 2021 12:23 PM (ynUnH)

333 Going out on the 'toon to get my Vitamin D fix. Heat Index 98. Water's 88.5. Not sure how long we'll last.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at August 28, 2021 12:24 PM (QCmNb)

334 Every music lover ends up in classical.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 12:24 PM (xopIz)

335 >>>August 28, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

Pretty sure you need to have a critical mass of fissionable material before you can get a self-sustaining chain reaction. And then you need moderators, and shielding, and heat-exchange plumbing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2021 11:27 AM (hT9If)
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Much of that only requires future materials just as we now have superior steel and alloys, ability to work other metals such as titanium and composits.

Little time from cracking the atom to the Enterprise.

I'd like to see new subdivisions with their own mini-reactor power plant telling Big Grid Power Co. to stuff it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 12:27 PM (u3z76)

336 What is that in hot dog years?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 28, 2021
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*(Sq Root of 29) X 7*

Um, 35.7 yrs?

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at August 28, 2021 12:27 PM (QCmNb)

337 The same daydreaming that propelled a lot of those future inventions is behind the Green New Deal scam.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2021 12:27 PM (BMmaB)

338 3rd approximation hotdog math should include Pi.

Posted by: klaftern at August 28, 2021 12:31 PM (r4sI4)

339 @BillFOXLA

One of the last Instagram posts from fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee in Kabul, who was killed in the suicide blast. She's holding a rescued infant.

"I love my job".

She was 23. RIP.

https://tinyurl.com/yggen9tn

Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 12:32 PM (cF8AT)

340 Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2021 11:58 AM (HG00O)

Well, there is Rockabilly if you're into that sort of thing.

Posted by: Iasonas at August 28, 2021 12:34 PM (ZMtsZ)

341 Star Trek's communicator was the genesis of today's cell phone.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 12:41 PM (u3z76)

342 "I love my job".

She was 23. RIP.

https://tinyurl.com/yggen9tn
Posted by: Tami

Jeebus, RIP. My heart and prayers to all the families.

Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 12:41 PM (Kx3kq)

343 Set phasers on hotdog.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 12:42 PM (b6XqY)

344 splert

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 12:43 PM (u3z76)

345 Last night we had hot dogs for dinner and a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes.
Posted by: 496

The guy who did that study chews way too carefully. It shouldn't take 36 minutes to eat one.

Posted by: mikeski at August 28, 2021 12:43 PM (P1f+c)

346 Every music lover ends up in classical. Posted by: JAS,

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Exactly true. Like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, etc.

Beethoven's pretty good especially his big sunglasses period.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 12:44 PM (ESLBo)

347 Okay....i get it now....when people start getting that nuke feeling....they garden.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 12:49 PM (b6XqY)

348 And when they died and went to hell, they get to hear music from the 70s ad infinititum.

Sometimes the muzak at the bowling alley is like that.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 12:49 PM (xopIz)

349

Robert F. Kennedy Jr:

"I do not believe prison should be used as a punishment"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2021 12:51 PM (63Dwl)

350 Ooh, that would be a good one. Find Nazi accounts, ordinances, and proclamations from the 30's. Change the dates to 2021 or 2022 and the J�den to the unvaxxed.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:03 PM (8eSmR)
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This exactly where my head is at.

Excuse me Mayor Breed. Did you know you're a f*cking Nazi?

Excuse me, you sheep. Did you know you're complicit in medical apartheid?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 12:52 PM (EZebt)

351 Oops. that was Douglas Kennedy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2021 12:52 PM (63Dwl)

352 Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 28, 2021 12:00 PM (KF5Wg)

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Pronouns would also be helpful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 12:55 PM (EZebt)

353 SpaceX is targeting Sunday, August 29 for Dragon's launch of its 23rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-23) mission. Liftoff is targeted for 3:14 a.m. EDT, or 7:14 UTC, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Falcon 9's first stage booster previously supported SpaceX's Crew-1 and Crew-2 missions, which launched astronauts to the International Space Station, and launch of SXM-8. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9's first stage on the "A Shortfall of Gravitas" droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission previously supported SpaceX's 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-21) mission. Dragon will separate from Falcon 9's second stage about twelve minutes after liftoff and autonomously dock to the space station on Monday, August 30 at approximately 11:00 a.m. EDT, 15:00 UTC.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 12:57 PM (u3z76)

354 I should sew a yellow star of David (or most likely use a safety pin) on my shirt when I go to Mass.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (xopIz)

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If anyone harasses you, tell them this is MOT-approved.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 12:58 PM (EZebt)

355 ---
Exactly true. Like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, etc.

Beethoven's pretty good especially his big sunglasses period.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 12:44 PM (ESLBo)
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Bust a move kid.

Posted by: Bob Wills at August 28, 2021 01:00 PM (u3z76)

356 Thanks. I would say SpaceX makes me hot....but it really does so i won't say it.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 01:02 PM (b6XqY)

357 "I love my job". She was 23. RIP. https://tinyurl.com/yggen9tn
Posted by: Tami

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This young woman died so Joe Biden could have a huge celebration on September 11th where he would be praised and exalted for ending the war on terrorism and bringing all the troops home from Afghanistan alive. He may still get the have that celebration but he won't be bringing all the troops home alive. Biden needs to leave office today. Same goes for Miley. Same goes for Austin.

Over this last week another part of my American heart was wounded severely it is uncertain if that part will survive. Over the last 7 months and even the last several years it's been wounded many times. I'm running out of heart to have wounded. Rest in peace you 12 rest in peace. And for the other 15 who were wounded heal quickly heal well we want you home.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:02 PM (ESLBo)

358 Tami is very right on both points. I liked "Go ahead... You don't need a gov't mandate to be a neurotic recluse."
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 11:53 AM (WLHrn)

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Every minor sociopathology is not treated, not ignored, but celebrated, promoted, and now mandated by government policy.

Enforced with a joyful vigor by pension-besotted martinets on a peaceful population while the violence of the criminal element is given license.

This the recipe for civil unrest.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 01:03 PM (EZebt)

359 test

Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2021 01:10 PM (AMIL/)

360 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes.

****

By that calculation Kobayashi died in 1937.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 28, 2021 01:10 PM (m45I2)

361 A study done on expert gullibility.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 28, 2021 01:14 PM (b6XqY)

362 I think it's funny hot dogs evoke such strong opinions among so many, myself included.

I had an ongoing "dispute" with a deli guy here for years about hot dogs. It was a Chicago-style deli, and, well...you know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 01:14 PM (EZebt)

363 362 I think it's funny hot dogs evoke such strong opinions among so many, myself included.

I had an ongoing "dispute" with a deli guy here for years about hot dogs. It was a Chicago-style deli, and, well...you know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Here in Las Cruces we have Sonoran dogs and a few other varieties. Chicago dogs have been banned at the city borders. Armed guards enforce that ban.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:18 PM (ESLBo)

364 360 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes.

****

By that calculation Kobayashi died in 1937.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 28, 2021 01:10 PM (m45I2)

I misread that as "increases" and I KNEW that was wrong.

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 01:18 PM (nzEdf)

365 AIPAC gave Biden a big slobbery kiss then added,
"...We urge Congress to act promptly to approve his request to replenish Iron Dome and bolster Israel's capabilities"

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:19 PM (u3z76)

366 Here in Las Cruces we have Sonoran dogs and a few other varieties. Chicago dogs have been banned at the city borders. Armed guards enforce that ban.
Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:18 PM (ESLBo)

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They're deep-fried, right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2021 01:20 PM (EZebt)

367 They're deep-fried, right? Posted by: San Franpsycho
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By law deep frying hot dogs is reserved for the local state fair and major holidays like Easter and Christmas. However I know a guy that knows a guy that can get you them all year round.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:23 PM (ESLBo)

368 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes.

So how do they know? If someone lives 37 minutes longer, do they shoot 'em?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:24 PM (axyOa)

369 Bios of 11 of the Marines killed in Kabul:

https://tinyurl.com/x59xmaax

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 01:24 PM (nzEdf)

370 Eleven Marines, one sailor and one soldier

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 01:26 PM (nzEdf)

371 They're such beautiful American men and women.

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 01:27 PM (nzEdf)

372 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:32 PM (u3z76)

373 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes. I had 2.

Every day decreases my life by twenty-four hours.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:14 PM (8eSmR)

Damn. I just hate Leap Years.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:33 PM (axyOa)

374 If you're not careful deepthroating a hot dog could take years off your life.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 28, 2021 01:34 PM (cSyAR)

375 Did Chris Wallace really say "It could be curtains for Biden?"

If he wasn't referring to Jill and her WH renovation plans, then the word is out: Joe is gone.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:34 PM (mR6Gs)

376 How many years have hotdogs taken off Jonah's life?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 28, 2021 01:34 PM (cSyAR)

377 Wow, now Dr. Fakey is talking about booster shots every FIVE months.

Perpetual money stream for big pharma, that does not stop you from getting the Vids.

From the guy who funded the damn pandemic in the first place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:35 PM (oHd/0)

378 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM
Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:32 PM (u3z76)

They are full of shit and playing a dangerous game.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:35 PM (mR6Gs)

379 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM
Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:32 PM (u3z76)

Dang! My Bullshit-O-Meter just pegged!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:35 PM (axyOa)

380 Wow, now Dr. Fakey is talking about booster shots every FIVE months.

Simple math. This gives big pharma twice the income each year.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:36 PM (axyOa)

381 372 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM
Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:32 PM (u3z76)

I guarantee there will be dual citizens who do not WANT to leave... they are part of the Taliban to begin with.

Dual citizenship needs to once more be outlawed in the US, as our Founders decreed, but our modern Supreme Court overturned.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:37 PM (oHd/0)

382 Thought that was a cute shot of the marine but if you enlarge it it appears photo shopped.

https://is.gd/8Hhhmu

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:38 PM (u3z76)

383 I suppose there might be a few odd people who identify with the Taliban but other than that who would want to stay.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 28, 2021 01:40 PM (cSyAR)

384 I suppose there might be a few odd people who identify with the Taliban but other than that who would want to stay.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 28, 2021 01:40 PM (cSyAR)

They could be a couple of American guys who hooked up with an Afghan chick--and decided to stay and convert?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:43 PM (mR6Gs)

385 Wow, now Dr. Fakey is talking about booster shots every FIVE months.

Perpetual money stream for big pharma, that does not stop you from getting the Vids.

From the guy who funded the damn pandemic in the first place.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:35 PM (oHd/0)

This is such a naked cash grab I can't believe a lot of people are falling for it.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:44 PM (mR6Gs)

386 383 I suppose there might be a few odd people who identify with the Taliban but other than that who would want to stay.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 28, 2021 01:40 PM (cSyAR)

They have had 20 years to move their people into the US, often with little to no vetting in place.

Its like the 10's of thousands that the Taliban LET go to America, the vast majority of whom were NOT those who helped the US... in fact THOSE people were stopped by the Taliban because we had given them LISTS of who helped us.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:44 PM (oHd/0)

387
Its like the 10's of thousands that the Taliban LET go to America, the vast majority of whom were NOT those who helped the US... in fact THOSE people were stopped by the Taliban because we had given them LISTS of who helped us.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:44 PM (oHd/0)

We're getting people they don't even want around.
And that's saying something.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

388 Bios of 11 of the Marines killed in Kabul: https://tinyurl.com/x59xmaax

Sgt. Nicole L. Gee 23 Roseville,TX - Cpl. Daegan W. Page 23 Omaha,NE- Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza 20 Rio Bravo, TX - Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola - Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui 20 Norco, CA

Seaman Maxton W. Soviak 22 Ohio - Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez 22 Logansport, IN - Cpl. Hunter Lopez 22 Indio, CA - Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo 25 Lawrence, MA - Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss 23 Knoxville, TN

Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum 20 Bondurant, WY - Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz 20 Wentzville, MO - Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover 31 UT

Joe Biden must go.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:50 PM (ESLBo)

389 We're getting people they don't even want around.
And that's saying something.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

Not to worry. Just let it be known they got the goods on Hillary.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:51 PM (axyOa)

390 Sure is dusty in here.

Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 01:51 PM (Kx3kq)

391 Youre in the middle of your workout when you notice two equally attractive female lifters in need of help. Both are struggling to unload the plates off a barbell.

What do you do?

Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

Well WTF good is nature's own bat signal if you're just going to ignore it. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (VwHCD)

What a bull** study. How to you find 'equally attractive' anybody?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 01:52 PM (eoQWY)

392 Sure is dusty in here.
Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 01:51 PM (Kx3kq)

it was dusty in my room when I watched Tucker interview the father of one of Marines, Kareem Nikoui

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:53 PM (mR6Gs)

393 I'm amazed Twitter allowed that video to be seen. She is very well spoken and everyone needs to see it. Do we know who it the woman is?

Posted by: Megthered at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (ADTaF)

394 a friend told me he read a study that said eating a hot dog decreases your life by 36 minutes. I had 2.

Every day decreases my life by twenty-four hours.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2021 12:14 PM (8eSmR)

Damn. I just hate Leap Years.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:33 PM (axyOa)

If you stretch out the 'dog' to 45 minutes, you come out well ahead.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (eoQWY)

395 Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

Well WTF good is nature's own bat signal if you're just going to ignore it. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2021 11:16 AM (VwHCD)

What a bull** study. How to you find 'equally attractive' anybody?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 01:52 PM (eoQWY)

This is also proof that men can concentrate on more that one thing at a time.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (axyOa)

396 379 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM Posted by: Braenyard
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Sounds like the State Department is using a modified version of the exit survey form used by the North Koreans.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (ESLBo)

397 Sure is dusty in here.
Posted by: Infidel at August 28, 2021 01:51 PM (Kx3kq)

Right? This all sucks so bad.

I had to look up Bondurant WY. It's a wide spot in the road on the west slope of the Wind River Mountains, a wonderfully beautiful part of Wyoming. It's a little south of Lefty shit hole Jackson.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (4l77G)

398 I had to look up Bondurant WY. It's a wide spot in the road on the west slope of the Wind River Mountains, a wonderfully beautiful part of Wyoming. It's a little south of Lefty shit hole Jackson.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (4l77G)

Maybe Liz Cheney will pay them a visit.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:55 PM (mR6Gs)

399 If the Democrats could fight wars as well as they execute Election Fraud, we would have obliterated all of our many enemies throughout the World, and would have nothing to worry about!
_President Donald J. Trump

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 01:55 PM (u3z76)

400 Crap! They're always diverting my atomic jetliner to Tehran!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 28, 2021 01:56 PM (UHVv4)

401 I had to look up Bondurant WY. It's a wide spot in the road on the west slope of the Wind River Mountains, a wonderfully beautiful part of Wyoming. It's a little south of Lefty shit hole Jackson.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (4l77G)

SNL is from Casper.
It's like the whole state is in mourning.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2021 01:57 PM (axyOa)

402 I am going to live forever.

Ask me how.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 28, 2021 01:58 PM (xopIz)

403 Cigarette companies also produced collectable "cigarette cards" in Europe and North America. They had all sorts of themes but I like the military uniforms ones.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 28, 2021 01:59 PM (UHVv4)

404 We're getting people they don't even want around.
And that's saying something. Posted by: JoeF. at August 28, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

The Taliban dusted off the Castro playbook with Biden's role model, Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2021 02:00 PM (BMmaB)

405 Eleven Marines, one Navy sailor, one Army soldier:

388 Bios of 11 of the Marines killed in Kabul: https://tinyurl.com/x59xmaax

Sgt. Nicole L. Gee 23 Roseville,TX - Cpl. Daegan W. Page 23 Omaha,NE- Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza 20 Rio Bravo, TX - Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola - Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui 20 Norco, CA

Seaman Maxton W. Soviak 22 Ohio - Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez 22 Logansport, IN - Cpl. Hunter Lopez 22 Indio, CA - Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo 25 Lawrence, MA - Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss 23 Knoxville, TN

Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum 20 Bondurant, WY - Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz 20 Wentzville, MO - Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover 31 UT

Joe Biden must go.
Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:50 PM (ESLBo)

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 02:01 PM (nzEdf)

406 Well, according to some new science, if youre an average straight male, you will (perhaps unconsciously) help out the woman with the most erect nipples.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 28, 2021 11:13 AM (yrol0)

The real racket here is that some scientist dweeb got someone to pay for pretty girls hanging around with bonus nipple stimulation.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 02:02 PM (eoQWY)

407 Cigarette companies also produced collectable "cigarette cards" in Europe and North America. They had all sorts of themes but I like the military uniforms ones.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 28, 2021 01:59 PM (UHVv4)

A baseball card from that source of Honus Wagner is still, I think, the most valuable card around.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 02:03 PM (eoQWY)

408 Britain pulls the plug on Kabul airlift: UK will start getting soldiers out of Airport as Boris tells of his 'great regret' at leaving 150 Brits and 1,100 Afghans behind despite fears they will become Taliban hostages
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Biden and Boris great race to the rear.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 02:03 PM (u3z76)

409 State Department claims hundreds of Americans still aren't sure whether or not they want to LEAVE Afghanistan as August 31 evacuation deadline fast approaches _DM Posted by: Braenyard
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Sounds like the State Department is using a modified version of the exit survey form used by the North Koreans.
Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 01:54 PM (ESLBo)

Who knew that State Department had mind reading powers that work across the globe? Too bad they didn't mind read the Taliban rather than Americans.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2021 02:04 PM (eoQWY)

410 The two-way wrist radio is one of the few things that have come to pass.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 28, 2021 02:06 PM (yQpMk)

411 I guarantee there will be dual citizens who do not WANT to leave... they are part of the Taliban to begin with. Dual citizenship needs to once more be outlawed in the US, as our Founders decreed, but our modern Supreme Court overturned. Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2021 01:37 PM (oHd/0)

Within Afghanistan, the Taliban are putting out strong signals that there is nothing to fear. There is also so much exhaustion from years of war and the corrupt and hated Ghani government that there are plenty of middle of the road Afghans who are just glad the fighting's over and want to get on with their lives. For somebody who somewhere along the way got a blue passport, but owns a business and a home and has extended family in Afghanistan, leaving with nothing to become a taxi driver in a strange place where he might have gone to college years ago isn't necessarily an attractive option. Hell, we have Morons who won't leave California and New York City.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2021 02:07 PM (BMmaB)

412 397 Sure is dusty in here.
Posted by: Infidel

Right? This all sucks so bad. I had to look up Bondurant WY. It's a wide spot in the road on the west slope of the Wind River Mountains, a wonderfully beautiful part of Wyoming. It's a little south of Lefty shit hole Jackson.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

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Hey Joe, you want diversity - you got it by the casket full. When I moved to New Mexico one of the first things I learned is this state has paid dearly for this country. Go to a 4th Celebration where shout outs are made to various veterans. If your heart isn't crushed you ain't got one. This disaster just added one more round to the pain and honor shout outs. You bet it is dusty right now in America.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 02:07 PM (ESLBo)

413 288 @montaga

NWO Ground Zero is in Australia! Watch Video (1 of 2)

https://tinyurl.com/yzwcc7f2

Video #2 is just underneath it.

Well spoken and she's very pretty too!
Posted by: Tami at August 28, 2021 11:48 AM (cF8AT)

And she has great hair!

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 02:08 PM (nzEdf)

414 Honus Wagner $6.6-million!

Sweet Caporal cigarettes were especially popular in Canada where in 1908, they had 50% of the Canadian market. They were issued to our troops in the two World Wars as well like your guys and Lucky Strikes.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 28, 2021 02:09 PM (UHVv4)

415 402 I am going to live forever. Ask me how.
Posted by: JAS
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Poetry masquerading as a comment.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 28, 2021 02:10 PM (ESLBo)

416 Many very young people in that list who's future was cut short. Idiots like preezy pudding head, pelosi, feinstein and others have led long lives and accomplished what? The destruction of the USA.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 28, 2021 02:10 PM (2NHgQ)

417 Here's a good picture of Ida.

https://is.gd/tP4Zb5

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 02:15 PM (u3z76)

418 California isn't quite afghanistan. It ain't that easy to leave anyway. As a sleeped (heh), White male, i'm last in line for any job prospects.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2021 02:19 PM (KAi1n)

419 SFGoth, thought you were full time self-employed?

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 02:21 PM (u3z76)

420 418 sleeped (heh), White male
Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2021 02:19 PM (KAi1n)

What does "sleeped" mean?

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 02:24 PM (nzEdf)

421 California isn't quite afghanistan. It ain't that easy to leave anyway. As a sleeped (heh), White male, i'm last in line for any job prospects. Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2021 02:19 PM (KAi1n)

I think that's the point for an Afghan with a blue passport. While the exit option to the US is still there, it's not that attractive for him compared to staying, where for one of us leaving Afghanistan would be a no-brainer. I can see someone in that situation making the choice to wait and see how things work out.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2021 02:29 PM (BMmaB)

422 Pet thread is up.

Posted by: m at August 28, 2021 02:32 PM (nzEdf)

423 I gather from a once-over that the latest Veritas whistleblower release (completely obliterated by events in A'stan, so, even more ignored/suppressed/obscured than usual) is about the visa-mill that DHS has become. Perverse incentives (bonuses for #s of files processed, and denials take much longer usually), on top of (surprise!) employees whose personal leanings are the literal opposite of the law, policy, and their duty.

Dunno if the atmosphere and body English factor was mentioned - the new management obviously is completely comfortable with a literally open border and complete lawlessness, lack of internal enforcement, anything goes. This has been reinforced by budgets and explicit actions and words.

7 months, only 41 to go (now just a week less than 41).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 28, 2021 02:46 PM (OTzUX)

424 "Sleeped" is my preferred antonym for "woke".

I am very, very part-time self-employed. I get a little work from my old firm but I'm not likely to make $25k this year. I do have one case of my own that takes a lot of my time but it's not a fee-generating case. (It's a "right-thing-to-do" case.)

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 28, 2021 02:56 PM (KAi1n)

425 Hope you find a way to generate more business (a purple wig?) and things pick up for you.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2021 03:10 PM (u3z76)

426 Hope you find a way to generate more business (a purple wig?) and things pick up for you.
Posted by: Braenyard

Well thank you, Braenyard. Your sentiment is proof that AoS is a great place to be for those who enjoy and contribute to it. As for the wig, nah. I've always had dark brown hair (though I used to wish it was black like my father's). However, I now have gorgeous streaks of silvery gray and it looks fantastic. ;->

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 28, 2021 03:55 PM (KAi1n)

427 Amazing interview with kash Patel. Worth watching.

https://tinyurl.com/58xswe9m

Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2021 04:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

428 "Amazing interview with kash Patel."

His name strikes me so funnily. "Patel" is an Indian last name synonymous with "Hotelier" (think about the English names Smith, Brewer, etc.) and his first name is "cash".

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 28, 2021 04:19 PM (KAi1n)

429 "If she's hot enough I don't care [if] she smokes during sex."
*******
Old bon mot by Mae West:

"Newspaper reporter: "Miss West! Miss West! Do you smoke after sex?'

Mae: "I dunno....I've never looked."

baddabish

Posted by: Noam Sayen at August 28, 2021 04:25 PM (fPFtn)

430 His name strikes me so funnily. "Patel" is an Indian last name synonymous with "Hotelier" (think about the English names Smith, Brewer, etc.) and his first name is "cash".
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 28, 2021 04:19 PM (KAi1n)

Since He worked under obama and Trump he should have credibility withthe left He knows his stuff because he helped write and implement trumps conditions based withdrawal plan. Biden threw it away to focus on the real national security threat of white supremacy. Then Biden just ignored the may 1 date and did nothing for 8 months. Unbelievable.

Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2021 04:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

431 A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

Posted by: 370H55V at August 28, 2021 06:58 PM (UsbFe)

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