India’s Chandrayaan-3 Mission Lands on the Moon
Chandrayaan-3 launched on July 14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on board India’s Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket. The mission marks India’s second attempt to land on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 crashed on the Moon in September 2019 as it tried to touch down on the dusty surface. Should Chandrayaan-3 stick the landing, India will join a small group of countries that have successfully landed on the Moon: the Soviet Union, the U.S., and China.
Chandrayaan-3 is made up of a propulsion module, a lander, and a rover. Its main goal is to demonstrate the ability to land on the Moon and roam the lunar surface for exploration to help develop new technologies for interplanetary missions.
The lander, nicknamed Vikram, is equipped with a ramp for deployment and is designed to carry the rover to the surface of the Moon. Pragyan, the rover, carries a laser-induced breakdown spectroscope and an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to study the chemical composition of the surface of the Moon. All in all, the mission is designed to operate on the Moon’s surface for a lunar day, which is roughly equivalent to 14 Earth days.
Finally, good restaurants on the Moon. Man, I really want some lamb vindaloo and some chili naan. Maybe I’m just hungry. But, you go India. Get that Moon booty.
The racism in Baldur’s Gate is genuinely so fucking hard on me. Playing a Tiefling as a Black person is brutal. Your party members antagonize you, the game antagonizes you, and the plot positions you as the bad guy if you don’t help the druids calling you slurs. 🥲🫠 1/3
— Lys 💫 (@daunt_lys) August 19, 2023
If only there was some way to not play a Tiefling in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Speaking of Nazi drug use:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-IX
One dose contained 5 mg oxycodone, 5 mg cocaine, and 3 mg methamphetamine.
If you watched Archer season 9, Danger Island, D-IX is what Cyril as Nazi agent is gobbling during the last couple of episodes.
In honor of the release of The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, I present the very first scene I saw of The Venture Bros. I was hooked forever. Forever.
Is this the winner for Worst Movie with the Best Soundtrack?
You are just trying to curry favor.
Naan of that now!
In the words of Joe Biden “Carda, mom!”
Hey, I wanna Chaat about it.
Aloo, dal!
That’s Rogan. Rogan josh.
Now that is a firsting!!
Don’t go to KK for advice on Firsting.
Tikka look at this guy!
I think I’m gong to ceylon past these puns and get to the rest of the comments.
That’s all we’ve got for today. Goa way now!
Indian food is pretty tasty, but sometimes I just want something from the Delhi.
I’ve never had Indian food. Feeling left out.
Never had curry. Is it good?
Lots of very good Indian food.
Someone doesn’t work in IT.
We used to have potluck lunches with one amazing dish after another. Yummy.
I worked in IT since 2000. Arkansas is not a hotbed of Indian cuisine. Or it wasn’t then. It might be now.
I don’t get out much anymore. Mexican food is my weakness.
Ah. Well to be fair, Jersey City has an enormous Indian population.
“If only there was some way to not play a Tiefling in Baldur’s Gate 3”
I know what some of those words mean.
Ill translate “I am a little bitch hoping this post will gain me some engagement on socials”
“I selected a character build that has penalties to interactions with others, and has been tainted by demonic blood. Why do people call me bad names?”
Wait til she plays as Wyll. She will know what it feels like to be cast out as ‘different’!
Background
Of course, Nixie isn’t your normal Tiefling.
Neeshka was one of my favorite companions in NWN2 campaing
It means they bought the wrong game.
Judging from the Steam Forums and this… there’s a very sizable contingent of people role playing as Trolls in this campaign.
No, they play Trolls in real life.
Par for that venue.
“One dose contained 5 mg oxycodone, 5 mg cocaine, and 3 mg methamphetamine.”
Nice.
Although 5mg cocaine isn’t much.
This was presumably before it was removed from Coca-Cola for that matter…
Yeah, but that was per pill. And there was a number of pills in the tube. Nazi speedball.
Gotta remember it was the original Mexican coke made with real sugar!
I call that a Tuesday afternoon.
India has been making strides with its space program and recently signed onto the Artemis Accords with NASA, making way for increased cooperation on the ongoing lunar program.
Should’ve teamed up with Musk. Of course, then they’d have to eventually provide tangible results, so…
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-court-rules-against-jordan-peterson-upholds-social-media-training-order-1.6530615
Jordan Peterson ordered to be re-educated.
He should be happy. Think of the story he will get out of this.
He could Livestream the training with comments – I’d watch.
Me too. I guarantee that the trainers would never allow that. What is said in those retraining sessions is wretched.
He just needs to use their own words against them.
Claim that he needs to video everything for his own safety. As a “survivor” of past re-education attempts, he requires everything to be taped.
Then his goal should be to reduce his educator to tears.
We could bet on how long it would take.
*insert Cultural Revolution dunce cap photo*
Terrifying. We’re probably not far away from the struggle sessions in the U.S., either.
Mandatory re-education. One of these days, with any luck, one average Canadian will ask another average Canadian “Have you. noticed we have little skulls on our hats?”
Just sayin’
Well, it isn’t like Joe talked about shutting down pipelines or anything….
Kind of poetic end after the number of aircraft shot down by Wagner on the aborted march on Moscow.
Ahsoka REVIEW. Woman suck at playing men.
And vice versa
Women play at sucking men? I think Hollywood was built on that, yeah.
He sucks at playing a woman and I’m sure he’s played at sucking men, so…
I knew something was wrong when Disney cast an attractive woman in a role and didn’t goop her up with prosthesis. Of course, after the lightsaber hit she comes back with a pixie-dyke haircut.
They lost me in the Abrams Trilogy and I firmly don’t care. So… whatever. Keep having more Jedi running around the early Empire and cheapen the whole “Last of the Jedi” thing some more, Disney. Add a few more Mary Sues… wipe them out. All of them.
I’ll go re-read the first three Zahn books if I need a Star Wars fix and probably just stop there (because the EU got really stupid before Disney bought them out anyway).
I watched the first seasons of The Mandalorian, and Andor. I tapped out completely after that. Especially when they made The Mandalorian a minor side character in his own show for some girl boss bullshit.
Andor was great. Never saw the baby Yoda fanservice special.
If it ever shows up where I can buy it (I’m not doing Disney+), I’d probably give it a shot. Did like Rogue One and have heard nothing but good things.
“Pixie-Dyke”. That is exquisite. Well done.
I watched the original Star Wars at a theater in 1977. It was amazing. Watched the Indiana Jones films there…and the rest of the Star Wars films. The Star Trek films as well.
I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since Iron Man. The first movie.
And I do not miss the experience. TV at the house is plenty big. Sound is not at ear-bleeding levels.
Louder in the past few years…old ears can’t hear vocals very well.
‘Is this the winner for Worst Movie with the Best Soundtrack?’
I submit The Last Action Hero Soundtrack.
The soundtrack is pretty good, not great…but my God, the movie is terrible.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/soundtrack/
I don’t know… Last Action Hero was much better than Spawn.
Spawn is just embarrassingly bad. The comic never did anything for me either. The HBO animated series was OK, but it was still based on the confusing mish-mash of the comics.
That movie had John “Kiss of Death” Leguizamo in it too. The stink of failure still hangs in the air.
He sucks so much. Who keeps giving him work?
Probably works for scale. Unbeatable bargain and all.
He only speaks the truth.
That was a great movie.
He must give the most amazing blow jobs. Just don’t look down.
👆
He was okay in John Wick.
Legumeizano was decent in Romeo + Juliette, but that is about it.
He was pretty good in the John Wick movie.
Other than that..yes, he sucks.
How in the crap did I miss the comment THREE HOURS before?
I blame my brain.
Three hours is an eternity in our new world.
Spawn was a much better movie than Elizabethtown.
I’m playing cards in Elizabethtown tonight, and nobody consciously remembers that movie.
Is that the one with the Scrubs guy, or Legolas? I don’t remember.
Mary Jane Watson and Legolas.
OK, I know the one. A guy fails at making shoes, and then finds purpose again with the help of a girl that he is probably hallucinating.
To be honest, after years of gone bye and chemicals ingested those movies just kinda blended into the general pot of 90’s shittiness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Knight_(soundtrack)
I’d add this one to the lot but seem to remember being entertained by the flick, regardless the over the top camp.
I love my Tales from the Crypt, and Demon Knight was the best of the three movies that were released under the Tales imprint (the third was not released theatrically in the US). Bordello of Blood on the other hand was, and while entertaining to me, would definitely qualify as a B movie at best.
Hey – I kind of like that movie. It poked fun at the whole 80-90s action hero genre.
I think it was one of those things where you go in expecting one kind of movie, and then get something completely different. And it while it wasn’t as terrible as a lot of people were saying, it also wasn’t good enough to overcome that.
That’s a fair assessment. I first saw it around the age of fourteen expecting a typical Arnold flick but got something between Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a feature film length long inside joke about the industry I didn’t really understand at the time.
It depends on if the badness of the movie or the greatness of the soundtrack is the deciding factor. Superfly has the best soundtrack of all time bar none and even though the film didn’t suck the soundtrack so far out shines the movie that it should be in contention. I don’t know if it’s still the case but for a long time it was the only soundtrack to outsell the movie it was from.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Who Made Who outsold Maximum Overdrive.
Also, Who Made Who is the best soundtrack EVAH!
Meh, shouldn’t count as a real soundtrack when you only write one new song and the rest of the album is just a greatest hits compilation.
Three new songs.
Two were instrumentals.
Not good enough, it’s still lame. Not the songs (AC/DC rocks!!!) but trying to pass them off as a soundtrack.
Well, everyone else in the world calls it a soundtrack, so forgive me if I don’t follow your arbitrary rule.
No. It doesn’t matter if any songs are new. The songs on this album were the sounds played in the movie. It is the movie’s soundtrack. A definition of soundtrack already exists and the songs having to be new is no part of it. Much like your definition of whinge, you don’t get to deny it like your truth trumps reality.
you don’t get to deny it like your truth trumps reality
Yes I do. And yes it does.
Endless Love.
One dose contained 5 mg oxycodone, 5 mg cocaine, and 3 mg methamphetamine.
Would.
Great clip from VB.
Did they ever riff on this one?
Not that I remember. But then they could never afford to license any of the music. But the Klaus Nomi and Iggy Pop characters where very entertaining.
All in all, the mission is designed to operate on the Moon’s surface for a lunar day, which is roughly equivalent to 14 Earth days.
And then it needs to do the needful.
Nice.
From the previous post:
I don’t mean to be snarky but shouldn’tvwe have realized this before we crossed the Rubicon?
This is nothing new though. There is a long history of refusing to acknowledge problems until it is too late, lest one be seen as a reactionary. See Lilburne, Paine, WWI, etc.
They just driving around looking for Rubicons to cross.
Robert Barnes talking about the latest Trump charges. Goes through the long list of “contested” American elections. Also talks about how lawyers are being prosecuted for… proving legal advise.
https://rumble.com/v39z33q-biden-scandals-and-trump-indictments-w-robert-barnes-live.html
Problem is most people don’t care since either they don’t like Trump or think It Can’t Happen Here.
It is happening here, they are just fine with it happening to the wrong types of people.
They just think it won’t happen to them because they are, of course, the right kind of people.
Morons.
Nobody has learned from the English Civil War and the French Revolution.
I think the saying is that history rhymes. It doesn’t follow the past exactly.
Those events didn’t have near instant communication amongst the populace. Things today are different at the micro level.
I have no idea how that affects things above that.
And no one else does either.
Chirst
That’s it. Chirst.
Oh, and the WP pretending we just woke from a coma.
Hahaha. WTF? That’s gotta be a fake
It better be.
Tis but well done. Still confused because they are reporting he has been not seen for some time but everyone was running articles he was in Africa yesterday.
He’s dead. Don’t confuse him with the chef in Africa, Vaghozin, who just popped up at a 4 star restaurant.
Faked his own death. Retiring to the tropics.
Epstein Island?
“Prigozhin? You won’t see him no more.”
+1 va fa Napoli
Until he makes his surprise WWE appearance.
I’ll admit I stole that.
Is that a drunk first?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
Fun fact: Angela Merkel helped create reunified Germany yet she is also the one who destroyed it
I’m reminded of how Biden, Kerry and Hilary were the ones who supported enacted Neoliberalism in the first place yet they are the ones destroying it. Bad idea to trust weathervanes.
The Venture Brothers episode that sealed the deal for me was the one where they spoofed Jonny Quest.
Awesome.
“Looks like you got a little herpe on your lip, have you been kissing your wife’s ass… after I put herpe in there?”
I have something like 20+ Venture Bros t-shirts. The T-shirt club would come out with a shirt for each new episode for a couple of the seasons.
My favorite is Brock Sampson coming out of the water like this with a lit cigarette still in his mouth.
For me, it was Dr. O’s magnificent rant that began with “Do you even know what I do?”, dismissed with a nasty comment by Rusty, then including the phrase “your soft pink insignificance” mid-way through. I well and truly lost it at that phrase. [Return to the House of Mummies Part 2?]
The entire Venture Brothers is a dark mirror of Jonny Quest.
I need to pick up the box set or something. This movie means it’s done, right?
I watched a few episodes about 10 years ago and loved it but I was coked up out of my mind at the time. Need to give it a proper watch.
Yes, yes you do. Much of it gets better with every re-watch.
It’s streaming on Max (formerly HBO) now, if you have it. They’ll also get the movie in a couple of months.
Nah, I’m not paying extra for that. I’d rather just find the box set for shit I know is a keeper. If it’s reasonably priced.
For me and the wife, it was the Easy Rider spoof.
“I put his soul into this… Homie”
“Nazi researchers found that equipment-laden prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp could march for up to 90 kilometres (55 mi) a day without rest, while carrying a 20-kilogram (45 lb) backpack.”
That doesn’t sound very impressive. I’d be more impressed with something like:
“Nazi researchers could not complete testing because the test subjects kept ripping the hearts from their guards and running away, never to be seen again.”
Given the probable physical starting state of a Sachsenhausen prisoner, that’s impressive enough for me.
55 miles without rest is 18 hours straight at 3 miles an hour, which is pretty fast for long distance walking. At 4 miles an hour, it’s nearly 14 hours straight.
Color me impressed.
https://www.aier.org/article/how-trump-and-biden-are-blowing-up-the-free-trade-system-america-worked-so-hard-to-build/
Ah so the Imperial Presidency was good as long as you got lower tariffs. There is no way another protectionist Potus would ever be elected again right? And Joe Biden voted for NAFTA and the WTO and there is no way such a principled man like him would turn protectionist if the political winds shifted again, right?
From the sidebar of the Star Wars article: Peloton’s Business is as Busted as Its Bike Seats
A publicly traded company brought low by… a bicycle seat? Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
That would be strike #2, with strike one being the treadmill that ate kids. That was all over the news a while back.
Which strike was that hilarious TV commercial?
woman with ‘help me ive been caged for decades’ face?
That ad?
This ad
OMG, the hostage wife?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijof8uw4OHs&ab_channel=TheTelegraph
And Ryan Reynolds followed up with this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayD-4nMnB44&ab_channel=JoshuaCarino
Beat you to it
You probably shouldn’t be sniffing the seats of exercise bikes, Shpip…. talk about swamp ass….
Well, the bikes will help prevent saag.
Nicely done. Tie two different topics of discussion together in one punchy line. The very opposite of a thread phaal.
Well, I am trying to get Swiss to Pak it in entireley, and go out with a Bangledesh.
They made a lot of money during lockdowns, and then that ended. I remember it being nearly impossible to find home gym equipment for a while. They’re probably hoping all this talk about going back to covid restrictions is true.
People suspended their subscriptions while waiting for replacement parts for their bikes.
It’s part bs. It most certainly wasn’t the only cause of the suspensions, but it was a contributor.
They are still a much more serious fitness company than those other companies who were coming out with the magic mirror workout crap. Now that was dumb.
Mrs. TOK has been running free classes at the gym until we formally open. We’re working on pricing now. Compared to those mirrors and their subscriptions, we’re a bargain.
My wife does online classes with her chick back in Minne. I think it’s 40/mo.
Shpip, I, for one, appreciated that.
Rudy can’t fail.
Good mugshot.
I do have to admit that I sort of like these Law-N-Order types getting wrapped around the legal process axle. I bet they never thought it could happen to them.
I’d like it much more if they were accompanied by all the others.
Damn you for the earworm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuS698b0ess
The fuck you bitchin’ about? One of the greatest songs ever written!
I have probably listened to 20,000 hours of the Clash, and it doesn’t get old.
Same. I still think LC is their finest album, though.
All ska puck gets old. In fact they should have retired the genre after Time Bomb.
Well, it’s a good thing that the Clash isn’t ska puck.
Of course they are. Here’s a perfect example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3G8XAkqzw&ab_channel=mbyrr
Or, you know, not.
Well, to Hyp’s point, dub was super influencial on the British music scene in the mid to late sevenites, and it comes out in Bauhaus’ and New Order’s base lines. But, that is dub, and not necessarily ska.
Punk liberated aspects from every genre.
The Clash stole just as much from reggae as they did from dub and ska.
Watching more clips from that Japan concert. Fabulous.
One of my all time favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-YqdeJ9fyQ&ab_channel=mbyrr
*tingles*
Punk is outsider art, so in the original iterations you saw everything from Blondie doing ’50s girl group stuff to the male rage of The Stranglers. And as the initial explosion faded through time and space, like ripples from a stone thown into a lake, you end up with crap like Green Day. But it is facinating how that expression of rage happened almost simultaniously on both sides of the Atlantic.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-forecasts-third-quarter-revenue-above-wall-street-expectations-2023-08-23/
Good Lord.
I’m so awful at picking valuations on tech companies. I’m good with market and positioning, but my background on valuations based on financials and performance and not nosebleed multiples.
Sadly, I bet this has more run in it as as long as the broader market holds up.
I don’t get it either.
I watched The Great Gabbo last night. It’s kind of a cinema milestone.
Recommend.
The stage is set tonight and most of the boxes have been checked.
Woman, check, POC, check, Asian, 2 checks but 1 is already qualified as a woman, fat person, check, 4 assorted honkies. Archie Bunker would be proud.
Asians have learned they no longer have much diversity cred most places.
Sadly around here it doesn’t change their voting patterns, however.
Lots of them – the ones with kids in school – are beginning to wake up, though.
Wait…did HH get moved up and I wasn’t told?
We were asked by the Nisswa Chamber of Commerce to stop inviting the NoDaks. To much damage to their town from you roughnecks.
And not because they brought their own home brew?
I keep telling you that just because you start seeing things after taking a pull off the 2 gallon milk container that they filled with water from the Red River, does not make it a “brew”. It is just contaminated water.
We got it from the Minnesota half
CDC Announces Deadly New ‘Electionyearicron’ Covid Variant
Too close to true.
LOL!
Peloton commercial:
“Honey, your ass is getting fat.”
It was either this or a vacuum cleaner.
Lol, that one hits very close to home.
She still married me though.
I got my wife a Dyson vacuum she wanted for our anniversary when we first got married.
I did, however, check with her first and not make a it a surprise.
I got mine a high end toast one year that was on her wishlist. She was not happy. Apparently the wishlist was more of a save for later sort of thing.
Pro Tip: Unless requested, never give a woman a gift like that. The closest I’ve come to that is buying a practice spear for the Mrs. At the end of every Spartan race you throw a spear into a bale of hay, and she had a hard time with that. There is a really fancy barbell she wants, but as of now I don’t have the spare cash for it. I think it was this one: https://www.roguefitness.com/the-rogue-freedom-bar-25mm
Nice. I have their Ohio bar and it’s been great.
Yeah, the rule is – never give your wife anything with a plug on it for anniversary or Valentine’s. It may or may not be acceptable for other holidays, but never for those.
Mrs. Dean has one of those bars. Not in that paint job, but its the same bar.
Uffda. Not a good day of bicycling news. Prudes ban Naked Tour de France.
What do you want to bet some govt hack has finally gotten old enough that his balls are sagging down into the spokes of his bike? And if he can’t ride, no one can!
And of course, one of the bikers had to sound off and kill any sympathy you might have had for him and the other cyclists.
“Very religious communities”. That’s a dog whistle meaning “MUSLIMS!” right?
Yup.
I had no sympathy to begin with. Especially not when it’s about some climate bullshit. I’m just tired of “edgy” nonsense – ooh, look, we’re naked! Yawn.
I assume these people aren’t complaining about the Peloton bike seat.
Relevant
In the sidebar of my open youtube window is a link to a Neil Degrasse Tyson 10 minute explanation of how America became stupid.
There’s no fucking way I’m clicking on that.
“People like me got tasked with instructing the next generation. Now they can’t think. You’re welcome.” -NDT
So he’s finally written an autobiography.
Maybe, it is him saying “You dumb fuckers made me a spokesman for ‘Science’ despite me being pretty average. If you are dummer it is all your fault”
I’ve disliked the guy ever since he and those other condescending twerps ruined Cosmos.
I cannot forgive him for that. I tried to watch it and rage quit within five minutes.
Eh Sagan was complaining about Star Wars being too White and Chewbacca not getting a medal back in 1978.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPM5WpS65tk
Michelle Obama wasn’t old enough yet.
Saga was always an ass.
OK. That doesn’t have anything to do with the show.
I hope he was at least high during that appearance.
Burke’s “Connections “. Anything else is a damn waste of time.
Burke will traumatize your kids though.
Got to wait till they’re teenagers before you put ideas of civilization collapse in their heads.
Thaf might explain my lack of children.
“I’ll take COMPLETE LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS for $500, Alex.”
Anybody shocked?
https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/border-patrol-admits-its-responsible-for-open-floodgates-in-arizona-border-wall/
Yet we still pay them.
And don’t hang the traitors, and would have been done in olden times.
You know we always here about Brett and his boys. Why don’t we ever get updates on the XX members of Brett’s clan?
It’s better than doing project management and process improvement.
LOL. I’m in the wrong field. And body.
Wow, just wow…
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1694379095881081159
“ For 9 years, Russia has occupied Crimea and subjected its residents to a campaign of brutalization and repression. But the people of Ukraine have not backed down, not even after the Kremlin’s illegal and horrific invasion. Crimea is Ukraine. Russia’s aggression must end.”
Hope you’ve got your nuclear bunkers prepped.
Have the people of Crimea been brutalized? I must have missed that.
Ukraine would argue that the Crimean Tatars most certainly have been brutalized.
I guess it depends on your timeframe.
I mean even since 2014, not just the deportations.
A quick web search yields a bunch of articles about it.
When the Crimean Tatars were brutalized, nobody in Ukraine thought that Crimea was a part of Ukraine. Nothing happened to the Crimean Tatars in the last nine years.
Personally, I blame the Mongols.
I’m afraid that there is a lot that we have missed. We rely on our media after all.
There’s reckless and stupid and then there’s Blinken reckless and stupid.
Fuckhead.
History started 9 years ago.
A few days ago he was unironically lecturing Pakistan about how it’s wrong to lock up political opponents.
Doubleplusgood doublethink on his part.
The grift is good
https://twitter.com/RandoLand_us/status/1694424269927956643
SCIENCE SAYS: Cats shit on you and you love them for it
Your cat will eat you to complete the cycle.
Who the fuck let Filter near that song. Gah. The TCM original is perfect.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2023/canadas-grave-errors/
Gee the “Americans were the warmongers, the laissez-faire capitalists, the racists. We were the pacifists, the socialists, the multiculturalists.” Was nothing but Liberal propaganda and what do you know the Liberals have updated their propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillien_Houde
Fun fact: during WWII Canada had the mayor of its largest city and a member of the provincial legislature interned for 4 years without trial for opposing the draft.
Fun Fact: My great grandfather was interned in Canada during WWI, for being German.
By the way I’m not sure what the purpose of Canada once you dispense with the notion of Canada being better than the US. It used to be Canada was better than the US since we remained loyal to the Empire but that went in the 60s because the Empire declined and the French didn’t like it. Looks the only holding Canada is through raw authoritarianism. Oh wait.
Canada’s excuse for every fuckup has been, “At least we’re not Americans, eh?”
OFFS. I’m not even going to dignify that stupidity with a snarky response. The whole fucking article seems similarly idiotic, at least the bits I skimmed.
And yet another article that completely fails to understand why populism is hitting the west on all fronts, and why the chattering class is going full totalitarian.
The Scream 3 soundtrack was pretty good, even Creed did a semi-decent song kinda.
Hope you’ve got your nuclear bunkers prepped.
Back in Colorado Springs we used to joke about sitting up on the roof with a bunch of beer and watching the missile strikes on Cheyenne Mountain. I don’t think we have any high value targets around here. Maybe the site.
That would just be a glow in the sky to the north, for me.
The plan is to target Idaho with laser equipped sharks.
So the lifeguard will have a better view of the thing devouring you?
I think I’ll be vaporized pretty quickly.
Don’t get too bummed, the living will envy the dead anyway plus you won’t have to live through next year’s election. Getting killed in a nuclear Armageddon sucks but at least there’s an upside.
Think positive! What if you got turned into a mutant instead?
I’d like to think I’d make an excellent fleshy headed mutant.
Surprisingly, we would likely survive the strike on the Air Force base and the Boneyard. According to that “what would a nuke do” website.
My out back in California was a short drive to Seal Beach Weapons Center. Now I assume Quantico is the nearest high-value target.
Nice. I don’t think there is enough water in the Salmon for that shark to swim in.
Salmon river is nowhere near as nice as Snake river.
That is almost a Ray of Sunshine. The Idaho guys laughing about a good prank. I’m betting that there are a few states where the govt game workers would have been OUTRAGED that some shark died for a prank.
More stories about cops blocking the roads out of Maui and leaving people to die in their cars.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/report-those-who-disobeyed-road-barricade-survived-maui/
That basically just requotes the AP article.
I read the original. It definitely does interview one person that decided to piss off utility workers and drive through a roadblock and lived.
I don’t recall any other survivors quoted doing the same in that article.
Now, I won’t at all be surprised, but I need more confirmation first.
“I finally found a better definition of communism in the book “Americanism versus Bolshevism,” written in 1924″
Pretty damn good, actually.
Nice
It’s like someone returned from the future to accurately warn his countrymen about the Uniparty.
My Sister-In-Law is considering Ketamine therapy for her bipolar disorder. She has been around the loop on medications for decades, and they work for a while, then they don’t work so good after a while.
I looked into it a bit, and it sure seems like this is an area that is replete with scam artists. There are clinics everywhere, and they charge as much as several thousand dollars for a nasal spray of Ketamine supervised at their facility.
But it is covered by her insurance at a real health care provider. And it does have a mildly psychogenic effect, so it could be plugging into the same thing that LSD and Psilocybin therapy claim to do.
Does anyone here have any experience with this therapy? Any idea if it works at all?
I have a family member who tried it with no perceptible progress. I think from also doing some reading that the claims are vastly overblown and this is just the flavor of the month.
Anecdotally, I have had several people I know have excellent results from microdosing shrooms, but who the hell knows.
Good luck to your SIL – that shit’s no fun.
My brother tried it for his intractable depression. No workie. Then he decided to live his authentic self* and has been much happier.
*He’s gay, married to a woman, with 2 kids. They separated. He got a boyfriend. Very cliché. Boyfriend dumped him, but he’s still a lot better now than he was before he decided to follow his bliss.
Yikes. There must be different levels of “gay” after all because no amount of pressure – if there was any such – was ever going to get me to father a couple kids. The women of the world thank me for not trying.
Likewise.
Thanks for the replies.
I tried to watch Ahsoka. It looked good – i mean visually, it looked really good. It seemed well produced and acted. But I fell asleep, so having an actual opinion will have to wait.
Is this yet another Star Wars movie? You gotta be fuckin’ kidding me.
Hint: The ‘Universe’ this story is set up in does not exist. It is imaginary. The story line is not telling us some allegorical truth that applies to the actual, real Diverse that we do live in. It is a saga of people that dont exist and thus, do not matter. Other than killing the few brain cells we have it serves no purpose.
Hey. The stories aren’t over until we have a full biopic on the pansexual storm trooper who was hypnotized by Obi Wan. Obi Wan’s words were violence, man.
Are you saying literature serves no purpose?
You are supposed to preface that with “So, what you are saying is…”
Whatever happened to that dingbat girl anyway?
I try not to put words (or anything else) in others’ mouths.
Which dingbat girl do you speak of? There are so many to pick from of both sexes now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99G6O721gA
*I was pulling your leg
Sorry, but I disagree strongly. Stories are a significant means of cultural expression. They serve to show and to teach.
As GK. Chesterton put it (paraphrased) — the importance of stories about dragons and dragons layers is not that they show us that dragons are real, but that dragons can be defeated.
There’s so much more to say about this, but not right now; guest expected momentarily.
Wait… you defeat a dragon by laying it?
Wow… all those classic knight and princess stories just got kinky….
I may have touched on that if you overlook the typo.
‘The story line is not telling us some allegorical truth that applies to the actual, real Diverse that we do live in.’
….Universe….good grief, how did I miss that?
The first few movies do, the last 147 movies….no.
Crap. I had something important to say here, but I don’t know how to say it.
Who says our universe is real? For all we know we’re in a simulation ourselves.
*Descartes nods sagely.
Yeah…Descartes. He’s from Memphis.
I have no idea who that guy is. I’m just glad you do.
Southern boys have to stick.
Looks like Putin’s cleaning house. This might actually be a pretty bad misstep though, Wagner and Prigozhin are seen as heroes by the Russian people and by the rank and file in the military although they’re hated by the brass and the jealous political insiders. He was back toeing the line and performing good work for the Russian state-not smart at all, especially with Wagner’s involvement in Africa right now.
Because one week or one month just isn’t enough?
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/08/23/why-san-jose-celebrates-lgbtq-pride-in-both-june-and-august/
So fucking tedious. It’s nothing but virtue signaling at this point. Wear the ribbon or else.
Wait til it shifts into ferreting out the cryto-non-allies.
When two M1 Garands love each other very much.
I was hoping someones Johnson would be shooting more than blanks.
BOOOOOOOO
Nothing against Julian Assange, but his brother was carved from a block of Ambien.
From a earlier thread that I missed. Worst movie with the best soundtrack.
Westward) 4:34
2. Sweat (Tool) 3:36
3. The One (White Zombie) 3:59
4. Cut Me Out (Toadies) 3:02
5. Pottery (Butthole Surfers) 2:54
6. 10 Seconds Down (Sugar Ray) 3:37
7. Blame (L.A. Remix) (Gravity Kills) 3:50
8. Professional Widow (Tori Amos) 4:31
9. Paisley (Ministry) 4:47
10. Fire In The Hole (Orange 9mm) 3:07
11. Escape From The Prison Planet (Clutch) 4:54
12. Et Tu Brute? (CIV) 2:17
13. Foot On The Gas (Sexpod) 3:57
14. Can’t Even Breathe (Deftones