Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 17, 2025 [North Pole Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Santa knows who is naughty and who is nice.

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"No matter the ailment, the Wednesday ONT is the cure and sure to make you feel better."

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"Wasn't this in ONT Christmas season content last year?"

Damn right, it was.

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Hat tip to a Moron but no idea which one. If it was you, thank you!

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Got yer tree yet?

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Would be a good white elephant gift:

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Not all heroes wear capes:

NEW: Los Angeles man known as the 'Cone King' says he has removed 5000 illegal cones from the streets that residents use to reserve parking.

Joey Morales says he has been working to get illegal cones off the streets since 2023.

The vigilante parking enforcement officer now… pic.twitter.com/vGl2f3GQpi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 13, 2025

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ONT Department of Military Long Form Reading Material

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere on Ace of Spades, but posting to make sure you see. Mandatory reading (since this is a semi-serious military blog at times).

A Week In The Pentagon - Chaos, Complexity and Hope

Many pull quotes but this one is a good example:

And here's the truth no one outside the building understands: often Trump himself doesn't know the decision in advance - and that is by design.
In the old model, a policy chief like Colby - if he wasn't drowned out entirely by the bureaucratic circus - would brief the President only after the internal machinery had already decided which ideas were "viable." By the time anything reached the Oval Office, the cake was half-baked.
Colby doesn't play that game. He encourages his team to present the President with multiple strategic pathways that share one overarching objective: put America first. Not metaphorically-literally. Then Trump chooses.
And once the President selects a strategy, everything changes.
In previous administrations, the moment a plan left the Oval Office, think tanks, senators, lobbyists, foreign service officials, intel chiefs, and a whole menagerie of Beltway fauna would descend on the National Security Council to tug at the plan, dilute it, reshape it, or kill it entirely. Every actor demanded their piece, their clause, their carve-out, their exception. Strategy, once released into the wild, rarely survived the stampede.
That era is over.
Trump doesn't ignore these players - he's altered significant strategies to accommodate strong objections from Congress and foreign allies - but he no longer allows them to hijack the core plan. They may comment. They may object. They may warn. They may advise. But they are no longer permitted to quietly amputate or rewrite the strategic heart before it beats.
The wonks are in charge again - but not the conference-circuit wonks with PhDs, hotel per diems, and NATO summit panels funded by NGOs with agendas buried in their footnotes. Not the pseudo-experts who present PowerPoints about imaginary futures.
The wonks in charge now are the ones who can take the boundless complexity of geopolitics and distill it down to America's core interests - those who can see the world not as a chessboard or a cocktail party but as a dynamic system requiring clarity, courage, and constant recalibration.
And for the first time in decades, the Pentagon is beginning to operate according to that principle.

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Obscure South Park Christmas special reference:

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ONT Department of Lego Construction

Anyone build their own Lego piece sorter? I didn't know this, but there is an entire sub-genre on YouTube of people making videos about making Lego piece sorters. I will admit, as a general rule, I am endlessly fascinated seeing many different solutions attempting to solve the same problem. (But I am also easily amused, so there is that...)

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ONT Department of Military History

Last Wednesday's ONT included the story of the Vietnam-era toilet bomb. But wait, there's more!

From The War Zone:

CWO3 Wayne Toth, a member of VFA-25, who shared his photos with us for this article, also gave us a little background on how the toilet-bomb was brought back to life:
"I am the Gunner in now VFA-25. We had a change of command and decided to replicate it. This time on a brand new BLOCK III Super Hornet.
One of my AO3s (AO3 Meagan Rickets) picked up a toilet from [the] marketplace, and I cut the steel, used Mk 76 lugs, made the tail assembly out of multiple dryer exhausts, and our Corrosion Control made the stickers."
The change of command ceremony occurred on September 16 at Naval Air Station Lemoore where the historic toilet recreation was so proudly displayed. During the ceremony, Commander Mark "IROC" Tedrow, a former Blue Angel, took over as skipper of VFA-25 from Commander Kristen Hansen. It was a perfect place for a fun callback to the proud history of the squadron.

Bonus answer to the question from last week: Why did the original toilet have an "E" on it?

The "E" seen on the toilet denotes the unit has been awarded the Battle Effectiveness Award.

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REMINDER

Saturday's Hobby Thread requires Horde participation. On last Saturday's Hobby Thread, we honored the Christmas ornament. Many among the Horde sent photos of ornaments from their collections to the Hobby Thread email address. It seemed to go well, so we're doing it again this Saturday. That means if you missed it the first time or you have another ornament to submit, you get another chance.

Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.

If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.

If you don't have an ornament, but have some other favorite festive Christmas decoration, send it in. Ornaments get priority but will feature other decorations if there is space.

THANK YOU!

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Popcorn anyone?

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

And the grand finale:

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra for the big ONT finish.

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Yay, Presidential speech night ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 Yay! Santa Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (p6hSe)

3 First?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (VCgbV)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

5 Safely on time, thanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (lbDMw)

6 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (CDX35)

7 Nice ONT, TRex. I always liked the Jesus and Santa duet on Mr Hankey's Christmas special.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM (6p0Jv)

8 2 Yay! Santa Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM
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Second!! Hello COMM!

Posted by: TRex - table saw dino at December 17, 2025 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

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Aren't we way overdue for a fake news "journalist" to write an article about how his 5-year old came to him crying about Trump starting a war with Venezuela, or something?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:05 PM (RXd75)

10 7 Nice ONT, TRex. I always liked the Jesus and Santa duet on Mr Hankey's Christmas special.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM
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Thanks! It is a clever plot line and a hidden South Park gem.

Posted by: TRex - her name is Rio and she dances on the sand at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

11
Any news on the Nick Reiner go-fund-me effort?

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (Y8DZL)

12 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

13 275 I have a buddy whose wife gets pissed at him because of his long conversations with Grok.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (KDPiq

Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

14 Quality content, thanks

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

15
lulz!

San Francisco city Democrats just caved to blacks demanding $5 million "reparations." EACH!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:10 PM (kf2Dp)

16 People at car cruise nights pull that parking cone bullshit. They show up, park their car, and then put cones in a few more spots for friends that might show up later. Meanwhile people are showing up and can't find parking because of it. One dude finally said lick my ass and literally drove over the cones and parked. It caused a bit of a scene, but too bad. If you can't get there when everybody else does, tough shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (snZF9)

17 Cone dude would be beaten, shot, and stabbed taking someone's cone or folding chair in South Philly - especially after a snow storm.

Posted by: Heavt Meta at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (GTqXr)

18 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

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People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

19 Thx TRex . Liked Trump's speech. Short and to the point and crapped all over the Dems. Might want to cut back on the Diet Cokes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 10:12 PM (LyrOO)

20 People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

End Times.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (aPY1X)

21
A.I. is cheaper than the standard $20 rate.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (Y8DZL)

22 >18 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

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People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

Mrs. Meta has a single friend who refers to Chat GPT as 'Special G'. Creepy, sad, and pathetic at the same time.

Posted by: Heavt Meta at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (GTqXr)

23 What's this? What's this?
There's something very wrong
What's this?
There's people singing songs
What's this?
The streets are lined with little creatures laughing
Everybody seems so happy
Have I possibly gone daffy? What is this?
What's this?

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

24 Content perused, mostly consumed. Several classic re-run pieces tonight; Christmas is a good time for classics.

Lego sorting: When our boys were young, their Lego collection grew with every birthday and Christmas. They liked playing with them, but not so much cleaning them up. I remember once taking a snow shovel to their bedroom floor and dumping them in a large box. I did make an attempt to help them sort out and organize the collection, so you could find that three-dot red brick when you wanted it, but they ignored order, and I quickly gave it up. Somewhere in the catacombs is the whole pile of them.

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:14 PM (lbDMw)

25
@ christy blinky
It's Hidalgo
https://www.imdb.com
/title/tt0317648/?ref_=
nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_21

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:14 PM (QVmho)

26 People at car cruise nights pull that parking cone bullshit. They show up, park their car, and then put cones in a few more spots for friends that might show up later.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

27 Can you get alimony from a bot?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)

28 27 Can you get alimony from a bot?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY

Nope. Also I am guessing being able to turn the bot off is a big draw.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:18 PM (aPY1X)

29 I wish someone would walk into my house and start chopping vegetables. But we know he would be a serial killer before I could thank him.

I have had serial killers in my thoughts now and then, thanks to one in college. I can't read about them or watch TV about them because it would trigger the only nightmare I have had in my entire life.

My husband got to be part of it, lucky guy. He was traveling a lot and our first house did not have an alarm. A lot of elderly deaf neighbors who would not hear me if something happened to me and our boys.

In my dream satan got into bed with me (it was my husband after a trip to the loo). I started screaming at 0200 and he thought someone was in the room, too. Put his arm around me (satan in dream) and I fought him screaming.

He had to turn on the light to wake me, and his arm was shredded. Probably still has scars and I should look.

This was because subconsciously he saw me reading the paper about the bastard's execution, saw all the girl's photos he killed, and commented that I looked like some of them (our hair, long, parted in the middle). That's all it took for the Nightmare of My Life trigger screamfest.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:18 PM (WONhk)

30 27 Can you get alimony from a bot?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Reparations, at least!

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:19 PM (Y8DZL)

31 I'm sure lawsuits against the AI tycoons will be incoming in droves.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:20 PM (aPY1X)

32 Nightmare before Christmas. I'm told it's charming, or something, but 45 seconds of the clip above is all I've ever seen of it. And yet, I survive.
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History Guy on Christmas at the White House, including his going there himself this year. (22:01) https://youtu.be/YeI7IW_rzfE
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Cowboy Kent Rollins: Must Make Christmas Morning - French Toast Casserole and Gooey Apple Cinnamon Rolls (21:3

Haven't watched it yet, so I can't tell you if the French Toast Casserole is drenched in Maple Syrup (in honor of today being Maple Syrup Day, someone said).
https://youtu.be/plk2tLBV5fw

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot chocolate or egg nog? Decisions, decisions... at December 17, 2025 10:20 PM (lbDMw)

33 Pittsburgh police scanner - "traffic flagger"??

Posted by: mindful webworker - he wondered at December 17, 2025 10:21 PM (lbDMw)

34
I'm worried I'm hallucinating. I just saw a trailer for a movie with Hugh Jackman playing Neil Diamond. That can't be real, can it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

35 Thanks for the holiday ONT, T-Rex!

Love the dino Christmas tree! Surely that is featured in your home. If not, it should be!

And thanks to the Pittsburgh scanner - never fails to amuse and amaze!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (kB9dk)

36 35 Love the dino Christmas tree! Surely that is featured in your home. If not, it should be!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM
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Good evening LS!

Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...

Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance? at December 17, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

37 I'm worried I'm hallucinating. I just saw a trailer for a movie with Hugh Jackman playing Neil Diamond. That can't be real, can it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

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He's not playing Neil Diamond. He's playing some guy from a Neil Diamond cover band.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:25 PM (H/ViQ)

38 Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

A wide range of shit. What people are working on, other projects, some have multiple cars and bring a different one. All different shit really. A lot isn't even related to cars. I only do a few a year at this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (snZF9)

39 Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...
Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance?
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I can assure you that you are indeed reading that wrong...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (sAmhv)

41 Get real books on dead tree - AI is turning the intertubes into massive server farms of useless garbage while jacking electrical costs.

Looking for more information on a topic I 'binged' up a question I already know the answer to -
Can flare fittings be used for AC lines?

Most of the first two or three pages of hits came from webpages I never heard of before. All had verbose repetitive and similar articles including a signature statement -
You cannot use flare fittings for AC lines, they can only be used for DC lines.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (/lPRQ)

42 He's not playing Neil Diamond. He's playing some guy from a Neil Diamond cover band.

Hoping it's a "Wolverine" crossover flick. Imagine seeing people getting shredded as he sings "Sweet Caroline."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (lUFok)

43 Good evening morons ותודה דינו!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (9ipOP)

44 Howdy Hordelings!
Nice ONT ya got there, T Rex!

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

45 Bottom video, I thought was the Brian Stelter Orchestra (aka Mr. Potato Head) haha.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (y171U)

46 Love the manger scene / two T-Rex's fighting. Once you see the dinos, you can't unsee them...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (kB9dk)

47 Neil Diamond is an American Treasure.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (KDPiq)

48 So, can you snuggle with your AI partner? Does he/she diddle you? Does he/she wear sexy underwear?
I need to know these things before I 'hook up'...😶...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (p6hSe)

49 That Duran Duran video is very iconic. When MTV started it got very heavy rotation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (9ipOP)

50 Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete

how having something to do that women have not messed with is fun? Tits, boobs, things guys find interesting

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (lBwjM)

51 Rudolph the Red Nosed TRex, had a very shiny nose, ...

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:31 PM (S/Y4j)

52 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (9ipOP)

53 44 Nice ONT ya got there, T Rex!

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:28 PM
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Senior Disco! Good evening.

Posted by: TRex - howdy ho! at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

54 Rudolph's red nose was caused by his alcoholism

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (LyrOO)

55 I saw a Neil Diamond cover band at a MSFT company meeting, I think they were called 'Mega Diamond'.

They were magically good. No kidding. Got me into the real thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 10:34 PM (xcxpd)

56 52 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM
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Well, it is difficult to blend in, but we do our best...

Posted by: TRex - discreet dino at December 17, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

57 "Later on, we'll perspire,
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9)

58 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (9ipOP)

Saw this bad boy on Monday:

https://tinyurl.com/yxfm65fy

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (npFr7)

59 'The Christmas lights are like Epstein. They don't hang themselves."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)

60 T-Rex, the Great Ball Contraption video is insanely great.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (y171U)

61 The population of New Mexico is 2 million. That roughly translates into a million voters of which roughly 60% would vote Democrat no matter what. Half a million rednecks and this place could go full Texas.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
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You find the minerals they'll come and get 'em.

In the meantime, as you say. They will plant home sites, build towns, and outvote the Dems.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (INl5o)

62 Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...
Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance? at December 17, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
aww shucks

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:38 PM (kB9dk)

63 Rocket Lab - Electron - Don't Be Such A Square - LC-2 - Wallops FF, VA, USA

https://www.youtube.com/live/hEorIU6EuNY

Launch is scheduled for midnight EST.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)

64 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (INl5o)

65 Miss Linda saw the T-rexes before the peaceful scene in the manger. Okay, she thought it was an alligator before she thought of a dinosaur, but still.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

66 DOOF! Look at you hangin' out on a Wednesday! I suppose Doggo will be peeing on the Dino water hydrant any time now ...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (p6hSe)

67 Who's taking the bets that TRex gets dropped in Times Square this New Years Eve?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:40 PM (S/Y4j)

68 Neil Diamond is an American Treasure.
Posted by: Opinion
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While motorcyling up some two lane back road in Kentucky, I noted signs, 'This section of rt.(?) maintained by The Neil Diamond Fan Club'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)

69 Now who among hasn’t had the sudden urge to chop a stranger’s vegetables?
Happens to me all the time.

They tell me my probation will be over in four more years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:42 PM (6ydKt)

70 Due to Global Warming:

Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of eight nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to maintain winter navigation in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf
_Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping)@mercoglianos

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:43 PM (INl5o)

71 After a big Chicago snowstorm, homeowners shovel out and "save" their street parking spaces with a plain folding chair. Woe betide the driver who dares to move that placeholder:

https://tinyurl.com/2nm939sr

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (Qab63)

72 Thought I would send you guys an update on all of the "Health Stuff" that has transpired over the last week:

I have a "pump fill'" scheduled first thing Friday morning, then we will be on our way out of town. Thankfully, this fill is just Heparin and saline to keep the pump flowing for the next 2 weeks; when we get back, I have another fill scheduled to start the new chemo medication which will hopefully do the trick and get the rest of these tumors knocked off.

The best Christmas present of all for me (well, us) is that if this pump thing works, there is a better than average chance that I could go 2-3 YEARS before we have to start worrying about this beast coming back! And who knows what advancements may be made in that time period?

It truly is a Christmas miracle, and we are so incredibly blessed to have access to such stellar medical care right in our own back yard. We are also blessed to have SO MANY people saying prayers on our behalf. We are truly grateful for each and every one of you.

We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

73 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

I wouldn't have needed to do that if you had shown any interest in discussing the effect of glaciation closing the Drake Passage and what effect that would have had on the paleoclimates in South America during the Bolling–Allerod Interstadial, and Younger Dryas periods. Karen!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (rbvCR)

74 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)

Deep Purple did Kentucky Rain on their second album.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (KDPiq)

75 Oh, and the surgeon's office called in an Rx for Hydrocodone (in lieu of the Oxy). I took my first dose at 2:45 pm this afternoon, and I am happy to report that I am feeling SO much less sore!

Better living through chemistry 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (SRRAx)

76 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard
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This...this is why I hang out here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (XeU6L)

77 Looks like a stylized Porsche tractor up top.

Posted by: Machinery Pete at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)

78 I wouldn't have needed to do that if you had shown any interest in discussing the effect of glaciation closing the Drake Passage and what effect that would have had on the paleoclimates in South America during the Bolling–Allerod Interstadial, and Younger Dryas periods. Karen!
Posted by: Kin

I have some very smart, uber smart women in my circle, no matter how smart they are, outside of work, they talk about stupid girl things.

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (lBwjM)

79 Teresa, great news that you are getting pain relief!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

80 I don’t know what I was thinking

Kentucky Woman. Sheesh.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (KDPiq)

81 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard
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This...this is why I hang out here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (XeU6L)

I thought maybe a Cockshutt 20?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:47 PM (npFr7)

82 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

it is funny because that is why some woman might divorce a man now, in 10 years men will be divorcing women for robots

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:48 PM (lBwjM)

83 Teresa - Continuing thoughts and prayers

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:48 PM (XeU6L)

84 Bongino could write a book about his time with the FBI, but I doubt that he will. Class act and classified material stays that way.. He turned over his radio show to another guy when he left. I wonder what's in the works

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (Qab63)

85 TRex Christmas tree is fantastic. Great content, Dino!

Posted by: scampydog at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (cqHAh)

86 Thanks for the ONT Rex.

Got nothing right now but the evening is young.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (25kuG)

87 >>Thanks! It is a clever plot line and a hidden South Park gem.

Many years ago when the internet was just getting it's act together I was at the UUNet office in MD not long before Christmas. As we were leaving the meeting we walked past a cube area where a bunch of the network engineers were gathered around a computer watching something and laughing their asses off.

We went over and they played it for us.

https://tinyurl.com/y2k4n3af

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

88 Because this is the best place to discuss furries...today in the NY Post there is an article about a NY college approving a furrie club. Just when I hoped they were fading into a bad memory.

The photos of the weirdos are what you'd expect sans little furry costumes. All homely if not ugly of both sexes. Or obese and ugly. Or misfits and weirdos. Dirty hair. Wearing flannel pj's. You know they stink to high heaven.

I'd heard of all black student unions, but this is too far. I'd yank my kid out of there faster than he could sew his furry costume and keep him in the basement til he saw the light.

Oh, some are called Bronies, or men that dress up like My Little Ponies. Their subculture is to create their thing or fursona. Gag. And to "create" little cartoons.

At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (WONhk)

89 Bongino could write a book about his time with the FBI, but I doubt that he will. Class act and classified material stays that way.. He turned over his radio show to another guy when he left. I wonder what's in the works
Posted by: JM

My 9 months at the FBI / How to quit when the going gets tough

Dan Bongino

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (lBwjM)

90 77 Looks like a stylized Porsche tractor up top.
Posted by: Machinery Pete at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM
***
It is! Well spotted.

Posted by: TRex - mechanical dino at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

91
I thought maybe a Cockshutt 20?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--------

That *would* get the starter on the pictured side.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

93 f that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: Speakin

or he had horrible but consistent aim

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (lBwjM)

94 Time!
Oh so wonderful news girl❣❣❣!
You are such a wonderful, positive girl!
May you also have a wonderful holiday season.
We, all of us crazy Hordsters, love and pray for you always!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (p6hSe)

95 Fantastic music selections tonight! I hadn’t heard The Tractors before, love them!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (idwIE)

96 Ella Cook.

damn iPad.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (6ydKt)

97 Feel better soon and heal, Teresa!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:53 PM (WONhk)

98 I’m no expert but it seems you’d have to reload most pistols to shoot somebody ten times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (6ydKt)

99
Actually, I am watching the "Disassembly" of California after 20+ years of total and I do mean TOTAL Democrat rule.

I'm hanging out to see what an Armageddon actually looks like.

Have the exit totally planned out.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (25kuG)

100 92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

Oh, how do parents live with this horror?

Catch this bastard! Come on!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (WONhk)

101 I see where this is going. For amusement, pic of Lambo tractor:

https://shorturl.at/k2oql

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

102 72 We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Merry Christmas Teresa!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:55 PM (y171U)

103 It is! Well spotted.
Posted by: TRex - mechanical dino at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

Much better match than the Cockshutt!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)

104
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

105 Great news Teresa!!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (VCgbV)

106
{TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (A0sqA)

107 Poor Bruce Willis. At least he has money and family to take care of him. Some aren’t so lucky.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (KDPiq)

108 I was wearing that Nakatomi Christmas party t-shirt last week. I got it last year for Christmas from my daughter. I gave her a Nakatomi Advent calendar that has Hans Gruber falling off the tower.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 17, 2025 10:58 PM (GGatE)

109 "bidi bidi bidi, we'll miss you Buck"

Gil Gerard has passed away at the age of 82 due to cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

110 92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

Disgusting and sickening if true.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (y171U)

111 That Duran Duran video is very iconic. When MTV started it got very heavy rotation.
----
December of 1982, I stayed at my girlfriends parent's house for 2 days. They had this new channel MTV. The 2 most memorable videos I watched were the Duran Duran video and...Kiss, with "I Love it Loud".

The Duran Duran vid was mesmerizing because it was new and current. The Kiss video caught my eye because rock radio had tried to pretend that Kiss didn't exist. Yes, I mean that. Kiss was a HUGE band in the mid-70s, BUT rock radio shortly thereafter tried to ignore them, as if they weren't pure enough to get airplay like Styx, REO, Journey, etc.

When I saw that Kiss video, I smiled--Kiss still lived.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (Cjcf6)

112 No article on the story.
It’s from an interview Steve Bannon did with Jack Posobiec who had some sources telling him this.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (6ydKt)

113 Edgy tonight

Santa Anna winds blowing hard and dry across SoCal.

LAPD hates these winds...Domestic Violence calls spike and murders happen up tempo.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (25kuG)

114 The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

One of my favorites. Viggo has made some good movies. Eastern Promises, History of Violence, Far From Men. Just watched Appaloosa last night. I wasn’t aware of this relatively new Western.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (KDPiq)

115 The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

Which is based on a true story as I understand it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 11:01 PM (6ydKt)

116 @88 yup at Suny Plattsburgh. (SUNY Albany myself). Though to be fair Plattsburgh is absolutely frigid in the the winter and a fur suit might help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 11:02 PM (LyrOO)

117 I’m no expert but it seems you’d have to reload most pistols to shoot somebody ten times.
----
Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

118 The Beretta 92F has a 20rd magazine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

119 Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

FN Five7even?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

120 One of my favorites. Viggo has made some good movies. Eastern Promises, History of Violence, Far From Men. Just watched Appaloosa last night. I wasn’t aware of this relatively new Western.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (KDPiq)

Capitan Alatriste is an early film, all in Spanish, but it has all the sword work and intrigue you would want, and the final battle is why pike squares are effective and why they suck when the enemy has cannon.

Capitan Alatriste does not play fair when it comes to killin'

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (rbvCR)

121 Great content, TRex! I'm sitting in my recliner, reading the ONT, and listening to my Persian hairball snore. The little monster can really rattle the eaves when he gets going. The black short hair snores much more quietly, just enough to make me look around wondering what that little buzz-z-z is.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (DK5Sh)

122 There is a 33 round glock mag .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (KDPiq)

123 Seems like a rage killing, though.
Almost like a crazy Ex-BF or stalker.

Or a whackjob tranny truing to make a point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 11:08 PM (6ydKt)

124 119 Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

FN Five7even?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

Kel-Tec:
https://shorturl.at/cHXQt

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

125 If you want to get really frisky though it will blow any chances of any innocent defense, there is a 30rd stick magazine for a Beretta 9mm SMG that will also fit the 92F.

Use only in case of zombies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

126 How about a 100 round mag?

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

127 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD

I have a few for my Storm.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)

128 My 9 months at the FBI / How to quit when the going gets tough

Dan Bongino
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (lBwjM)

---

Interesting take on the Bongino resignation. I have an open mind, but there's a lot we don't know.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 11:12 PM (tAhJv)

129 At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (WONhk)

If even one of those clowns were in ROTC, I'd throw them out.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

130 17 retards?

Brown University administration?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

131
The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

Nope...that made sense. This was had very little plot except revenge from the killing of his wife. I don't think we even saw the wife, but we have brain damage from it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)

132 200 round drum for your SAW.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (/lPRQ)

133 This was a fantastic ONT took me this long to watch all of it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:15 PM (idwIE)

134 This was a fantastic ONT took me this long to watch all of it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:15 PM (idwIE)

Sheesh. Faster than me.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:16 PM (2WIwB)

135 Hey....are we on the gun thread now?!
What day is this...I'm old....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (p6hSe)

136 130 17 retards?

Brown University administration?
-----

No matter how much I try to think that I've seen it before, it still surprises me how much incompetence can be assembled inside the same entity.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)

137 I've picked up two more Quark Linux microcomputers, I now have complete mini sysadmin test environment in the space of an Altoids tin that draws a total of 4 watts.

So far, I've just set up master/slave(s), heartbeat and webservers that serve up system info. And just writing different scripts to do simple sysadmin things.

I'm going to turn turn it into a domain controller, run slack for internal messaging, and just generally tinker around.

It's so funny, I have an external drive connected to the master and and all four computers can sit right on top if it quite comfortably.

It's positively cute.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (XV/Pl)

138 The Paolo is, how you say, renowned for his 15-shot magazine and rapid reload ability.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 17, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)

139 Interesting take on the Bongino resignation. I have an open mind, but there's a lot we don't know.
Posted by: JM in

he has quit, or announced he's going to , why? He is full of piss and vinegar about how he's going to do things, gets a job to do those things and then quits. How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

140 Kel-Tec:
https://shorturl.at/cHXQt
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

That's a nifty little pistol, Helena!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

141
A vacuum cleaner sorts LEGOS right well. They were on the floor; now they are in the bag.

Change out the filled bag and start with a new one. Build your LEGO fort with vacuum cleaner bags filled with LEGO pieces and bonded to one another using a quality mortar.

No arbitrary rectilinear grid spacing rules FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (xG4kz)

142 Wasn't Bongino fighting some serious medical stuff awhile back?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

143 I don't remember what Bongino's job was, was it important?

If it was, he didn't leave much of an impression....

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:24 PM (XV/Pl)

144 How about a 100 round mag?

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 11:24 PM (snZF9)

145 How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

Maybe he wasn't allowed to do anything?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:26 PM (uQesX)

146 How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

Maybe he wasn't allowed to do anything?
Posted by: Orang

he's going to do a fucking lot less now.

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (ncAq7)

147 That’s the attitude Teresa. No give up in you. May God bless you and keep you

Posted by: Javems at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (8I4hW)

148 he's going to do a fucking lot less now.
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (ncAq7)

So, he's running for Congress?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:28 PM (uQesX)

149 Messrs Smith et Wesson have just introduced their own version of the 30-round .22 magnum. I have the Kel-Tec, and just got the S&W for my sister (good trade wouldn't you say).

It is, of course, marginal for 'home defense,' but way better than .22. It shoots flat, has long range for a pistol, is easy to aim, has essentially no recoil. Jokesters call it the "Poor man's five-seven." When fully loaded, it has a big-pistol feel, which can be good. Since it's mid-sized, it's not ideal for concealed carry. For a holster, it's still lighter than any medium caliber pistol -- but if you want to use a laser sight on the rail, you might have a hard time finding a holster to fit.

I'd given my sister a 686 revolver years ago, a .357 loaded with .38, and although I think of it as an excellent piece, it was just too much gun for her and she wouldn't take it out to practice. I'm looking forward to her shooting hell out of the .22 mag.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:28 PM (zdLoL)

150 Evenin’, All. What did the Bad Orange Man say?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:29 PM (77rzZ)

151 If even one of those clowns were in ROTC, I'd throw them out.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

I can't believe they exist. If they were in junior high and drawing cartoons (without the little outfits and what they call sex), well, ok. But go outside and get some Vitamin D and wash your hair!

The article reads that all are under 25yrs, so maybe they will fade away without reproducing.

I know I'd point and mock them and probably be arrested. But totally worth it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:30 PM (WONhk)

152 Oh, I think I recognize Santa's tractor above, and it is a Ferrari.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (zdLoL)

153 142 Some kind of cancer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (77rzZ)

154
Hey....are we on the gun thread now?!
What day is this...I'm old....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Two streams merged in the snowy woods.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (pkeXY)

155
At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

This is Zork, right?

>
> get flamethrower
> I see no flamethrower here; try the oil lamp on the nearby stump
> get oil lamp
> done
> open oil lamp
> done
> anoint those most in need of cleansing with oil from lamp
> done
> push the anointed ones into the fire circle
> toast s'mores
> I see no chocolate here
>

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 17, 2025 11:33 PM (xG4kz)

156 Every thread becomes a boob thread first.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:34 PM (77rzZ)

157 I guess it's sleepy time...I DO like my KelTec though...
Good night pals😉

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 11:34 PM (p6hSe)

158 I know I'd point and mock them and probably be arrested. But totally worth it!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:30 PM (WONhk)

Eff 'em.
I'd do some serious eye rolling. Then I'd spit and laugh as I walk away.
This is catering to the continued infantilization of American college youth. It's bullsh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

159 Nah sorry, Santa's tractor is a Porsche:
https://tinyurl.com/272ur649

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (zdLoL)

160 There is a.launch scheduled for the top of the hour:

https://www.youtube.com/live/hEorIU6EuNY

Rocket Lab - Electron - Don't Be Such A Square - LC-2 - Wallops FF, VA, USA - Space Affairs Live

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (VtIDj)

161 Catch this bastard! Come on!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
---

I think they know who he is.
They are covering for him.
or themselves

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (INl5o)

162 Eff 'em.
I'd do some serious eye rolling. Then I'd spit and laugh as I walk away.
This is catering to the continued infantilization of American college youth. It's bullsh*t.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

You'd be arrested. They'd cry if you called them pansy-assed losers and go run to the college president and get you expelled.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (uQesX)

163 Pittsburgh Scanner
Marshall-Shadeland. Marshall Ave. Caller said that their neighbor broke in and stole their Christmas Tree.

Fuzzy green guy, kinda pot-bellied?

Posted by: mikeski of whoville at December 17, 2025 11:47 PM (nhCoE)

164
Nope...that made sense. This was had very little plot except revenge from the killing of his wife. I don't think we even saw the wife, but we have brain damage from it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

This is all i got now....
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
If the movie felt more like a "Spaghetti Western" (gritty, stylized, and high-energy music), this is likely it.
The Plot: A young man (Bill) witnesses the brutal murder of his family (including his mother and sister) as a child.
The Journey: He grows up and sets out on a horse across the desert to hunt down the five men responsible.
The Detail: He teams up with an older gunfighter (played by Lee Van Cleef) who has his own score to settle with the same gang.

It's an AI result, so your mileage may vary.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 11:47 PM (QVmho)

165 Conservative Treehouse reports that numerous left wing civil rights groups asked Brown to disable its surveillance cameras months ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (looXz)

166 I’m tired of this “launch in x minutes” bullshit. Wake me when these launches are actually going somewhere.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (77rzZ)

167 Conservative Treehouse reports that numerous left wing civil rights groups asked Brown to disable its surveillance cameras months ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (looXz)

To facilitate their client groups in committing uncivil wrongs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (npFr7)

168 Brilliant enginering design with Legos. So creative and it all works!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (82+jJ)

169 Wasn't Bongino fighting some serious medical stuff awhile back?
Posted by: Diogenes

pookysgirl said "I just hope his cancer isn't back" in the thread about him earlier today.

Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (nhCoE)

170 Damned Miracle on 34th Street.
The scene where santa signs to the deaf girl really gets to me.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:52 PM (2WIwB)

171 G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:53 PM (77rzZ)

172
Good night, Hordians.

*turns out lights*
*slips out door*
*falls down stairs*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 11:54 PM (tgvbd)

173 The weather forecast shows a not white Christmas. I am trying to keep myself from being bummed out as obviously it should not matter. But normally we have snow and it does mean a lot to me.

Someday we will have snow. Probably on Easter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:55 PM (WONhk)

174 This story about awful Fani Willis made me laugh. If I were a lawyer you couldn't pay me enough to represent Fani Willis:

https://tinyurl.com/yckafedp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:58 PM (looXz)

175 The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.
Posted by: Berserker

Scrape him up? We gotta eat, too!

Posted by: a murder of crows at December 17, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

176 >> Wake me when these launches are actually going somewhere.

Wait about 50 days. If, *if* it goes as scheduled, Artemis II will launch then for a crewed lunar flyby.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

177 Scrape him up? We gotta eat, too!
Posted by: a murder of crows at December 17, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

If the killer is a muzzie, which seems likely, feed the scraps to the hogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:02 AM (npFr7)

178 https://youtu.be/Qr0-7Ds79zo?t=6

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:08 AM (rdVOm)

179 So are we done with Aeneas?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

180 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.

Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:11 AM (q6tQZ)

181 174 This story about awful Fani Willis made me laugh. If I were a lawyer you couldn't pay me enough to represent Fani Willis:

https://tinyurl.com/yckafedp
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:58 PM (looXz)

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Well wait one minute there missy. How much "enough" are we talking here?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2025 12:13 AM (JkO4W)

182 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:11 AM (q6tQZ)

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2025 12:13 AM (rbvCR)

183 https://youtu.be/Qr0-7Ds79zo?t=6
Posted by: JQ

https://youtu.be/K4t6mY47ekc?t=6

Posted by: mikeski, mon at December 18, 2025 12:14 AM (nhCoE)

184 a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

Yeah, what was I thinking?
Giant laser? Zap everything into nothingness?

Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (q6tQZ)

185 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

The Mega Maid in Spaceballs was a lie???

Posted by: mikeski thinks that sucks and blows at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (nhCoE)

186
Look up all the proposals for clearing space junk. There's a bunch of 'em, and lasers are indeed one method.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

187 Home Stallone II by Skybrows

Tim Pool, MoistCritical, Asmondgold, Nux, SmugAlana, Hasan Piker, Hasan's doggie, Kirsche, Leaflit, Joe Rogaine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZ1Fe1rsug

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2025 12:17 AM (2GVsD)

188 Posted by: mikeski, mon

LOL! That was great! Thanks.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

189 Conrad Black: China's Expanding Influence Rekindles US Engagement In Latin America

Dec 17, 2025 - 06:15 PM
Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times

https://tinyurl.com/47ek74cp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:19 AM (INl5o)

190 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

The Mega Maid in Spaceballs was a lie???
Posted by: mikeski thinks that sucks and blows at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (nhCoE)

I didn't think that was physically possible, but it both sucks and blows...

Posted by: Bart Simpson at December 18, 2025 12:19 AM (NZPfR)

191 Rather long clip of J.D. Vance. About five minutes, but , gosh , is he bright and articulate, and I have to say the reporter who asked the initial question on the "Vanity Fair" article was pleasant .

Good night all.

https://tinyurl.com/25ru8w7e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (WFtAr)

192 Whelp.... 50 years after Calif Enviros forced everyone to start using Plastic Grocery bags, to save the trees..

We are now back to only using Paper. They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (mP0Kj)

193 Those Beretta 9mm SMG are what the guards at the banks in Italy would carry back in the 80-90s Very intimidating piece of hardware.

That and the one person man-traps at the entrances presented robbers with a formidable problem.

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (EMg+d)

194 Odds on most of the metal up there isn't ferrous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (INl5o)

195 LOL! That was great! Thanks.
Posted by: JQ

They did the whole album reggae style!

Them: "The lunatic is on the grass."

Me: "Aren't you all on the grass?"

https://youtu.be/RAInPdk5sxg

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:23 AM (nhCoE)

196 They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...
Posted by: Romeo13
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If only they'd listened to us 50 years ago, when *we told them* trees could be replaced with more trees as they were harvested.

Dumbfks.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

197 Space lasers? Never heard of 'em.

Posted by: Marjorie from GA at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (Epuwl)

198 194 Odds on most of the metal up there isn't ferrous.

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Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Posted by: Ben Stein at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (0RiMX)

199
One idea is a giant garbage bag and net like thing. YUGE. Send up there with an orbiter, deploy the bag and collect a bunch of defunct junk, then deorbit the bag to burn up in atmosphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
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What if you identify as black?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:27 AM (INl5o)

201 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
Posted by: Braenyard

Garnished from the salaries of San Francisco Supervisors? I'm sold!

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:29 AM (nhCoE)

202 196 They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...
Posted by: Romeo13
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If only they'd listened to us 50 years ago, when *we told them* trees could be replaced with more trees as they were harvested.

Dumbfks.
Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, its like the now looming Solar Panel Economic disaster we are seeing for companies like PGE... you still have to be able to provide FULL F'n capacity in case of snow or back weather, and night, while the initially gave early solar folks good deals...

So, now they charge a flat connection fee every month... not just what electricity you use.

Same with Gasoline Taxes to support roads, with Electric Cars.

A bit of common sense would tell you there were Yuge problems that would doom the enviro project... but they spent so much money doing it, now we are stuck...

Just like the Cali Never gonna Speed Rail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:29 AM (mP0Kj)

203 Where did all the warming go?
Long time passing...

Where Did Global Warming Go?
US East Sees Snowiest Start In Nearly Two Decades

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:30 AM (INl5o)

204 199
One idea is a giant garbage bag and net like thing. YUGE. Send up there with an orbiter, deploy the bag and collect a bunch of defunct junk, then deorbit the bag to burn up in atmosphere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, but wouldn't burning all that crap in the atmosphere have the potential to screw up the environment? A lot of the components on a Sat are pretty toxic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:31 AM (mP0Kj)

205 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
Posted by: Braenyard
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If they raid the Pelosi fortune, might cover what-- a hundred or so persons' "reparations"?

It's a bold strategy...

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

206 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
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What if you identify as black?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:27 AM (INl5o)

Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:33 AM (mP0Kj)

207 @CollinRugg
Tucker Carlson says a member of Congress told him that President Trump will be announcing tonight that "a war is coming" during his address.

Judge Napolitano: "Is Trump going to start a war in Venezuela?"

Carlson: "I don't know the answer ... here's what I know so far, which is that members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming and it'll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at 9 o'clock by the president..."
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They beclown themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:34 AM (INl5o)

208 Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.
Posted by: Romeo13

And if I lived there, well, none of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. By the time we moved here from Europe, all the slave-keepin' was long done with. What do I owe ya for?

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

209 Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.
Posted by: Romeo13

And if I lived there, well, none of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. By the time we moved here from Europe, all the slave-keepin' was long done with. What do I owe ya for?

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

My ancestors weren't here either. They were probably hanging around Pisa saying shit like "hey nunz, dis a tower, she a little crook."

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 18, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)

210 G'night, horde. Had to wake too early, it's been a sh!tty day & I need sleep.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

211 It's my Birthday!!!

Yay me!

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d)

212 >> Yeah, but wouldn't burning all that crap in the atmosphere have the potential to screw up the environment?

If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

213 It's my Birthday!!!
Yay me!
Posted by: pawn

Happy Birthday!

Birthday just game in the life of pawn. -- Mongo

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:49 AM (nhCoE)

214 Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d

Yay you!! You're a very kind person and I hope you have a lovely day! Sleep is not happening for me right now. Guess I better try again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 12:51 AM (PFs9e)

215 If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

Aluminum, no problem.
Magnesium, no problem.
Tin, no problem.
Lead? So little of it, no problem.
Silicon, germanium, again, so little.

Meteorites are dumping tons of metal and metal oxides into the atmosphere every day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)

216 If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.
Posted by: publius

"Dilution is the solution to pollution" -- CivEng profs everywhere

Spreading one satellite over the whole atmosphere is about as dilute as you can get.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:54 AM (nhCoE)

217 Well, I am going to get an early one. Forecast for tomorrow is a mostly sunny day with temps in the 20's F, and then dropping from there onward. I have to hang a trailer connector and brake controller on #3 Suburban. Looks like tomorrow is my best bet.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7)

218
Natural meteoric influx is about 54 tons per day. Space junk is about 5% of that currently.

They are worried about aluminum, I see. Natural Al from meteors is a small fraction of the total, and the space junk Al injection already exceeds that previous natural infall.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

219 Ben Shapiro denounces Tucker Carlson in Heritage Foundation speech: ‘Opponent of conservatism’
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Don't care for Ben but he will help bring necessary attention to Tucker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 01:06 AM (INl5o)

220 NYT has a big article on Venezuelan Navy escorting cargo ships past 0the American blockade. The headline reads, 'Venezuelan Navy Escorts Vessels in Defiance of Trump’s Blockade Threat'.

Reading more closely one sees that the escorted ships were not on the sanction list. In other words, they were escorting unsanctioned ships. Ships that were permitted to pass.

But it will look good on Maduro's propaganda video.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 01:13 AM (INl5o)

221 I think the threat from aluminum is a bit hyped. There's only a 2% chance of a reaction. So something measured in low parts per billion is not going to do much to a O3 population measured in parts per million, even if it is catalytic.

I'm sure this can be modeled.

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 01:31 AM (EMg+d)

222 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.

Guess where a whole lot of black people are gonna be moving now?

Atlanta might actually turn into a white town again!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 18, 2025 01:33 AM (SRRAx)

223 Dang.... Gil Gerard who Played the cheezy 70's Buck Rogers has died of cancer.

Beeky Beeky Beeky... that's fucked Buck...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 01:45 AM (mP0Kj)

224 211 It's my Birthday!!!

Yay me!
Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d)

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Happy birthday, and many more!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 18, 2025 01:57 AM (lJui8)

225 The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

He's probably in Syria by now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 18, 2025 01:57 AM (mlg/3)

226 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
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That's nice. Have they thought of the financial logistics of this? LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:00 AM (sAmhv)

227 That's nice. Have they thought of the financial logistics of this? LoL!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:00 AM (sAmhv)

No math.

Posted by: Reforger at December 18, 2025 02:03 AM (VF6cf)

228 They are worried about aluminum, I see. Natural Al from meteors is a small fraction of the total, and the space junk Al injection already exceeds that previous natural infall.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

The actual threat is from the CCP not giving a shit where their stuff lands. Re-entry isn't a thing they care about and have probably killed people in China already.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 18, 2025 02:08 AM (mlg/3)

229 Yeah. Some of their launch failure vids are quite spectacular.

Posted by: Reforger at December 18, 2025 02:14 AM (VF6cf)

230 San Francisco city Democrats just caved to blacks demanding $5 million "reparations." EACH!

Posted by: Soothsayer

It was the kickbacks that made them cry uncle!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 18, 2025 02:17 AM (y7zkd)

231 It's ok. After Soviet California taxes 90% of that 5 million, they'll achieve utopia this time, for sure!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:34 AM (sAmhv)

232 Why am I still up? That darn Internet of Junk! Things like The Snowman 1982 animation that somebody here linked to several days back.
https://youtu.be/THwOiOzcb6w
And this 1938 Fleischer toon: All's Fair at the Fair
https://youtu.be/zdwpvxuIYSQ
Gotta stop following those sidebar suggestions.

Outro music
https://youtu.be/o-QKduja9wk

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - past prime time at December 18, 2025 02:41 AM (lbDMw)

233
The Chicoms don't care about space junk either. That anti-satellite test they did back in 2013 generated the most space junk ever created in one event.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 03:19 AM (w6EFb)

234 re: toilet bomb

message on side should read, "This'll fix their shit!"

Posted by: Speller at December 18, 2025 03:32 AM (pSotA)

235 Will be back

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 03:57 AM (Ia/+0)

236 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

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