Did you know that welding is an olympic event? Nope, I didn’t either.
Did you know that welding is an olympic event? Nope, I didn’t either.
If you knew where all the nuclear bunkers were, and all the targets were, you could plan ahead and be the first to leave your bones and bloody scratch-marks on the outside of the bunker door. Good plan!
The US truly is exceptional. It seems we are the one nation that feels free to bomb anyone, any time.
The US has been working on a series of “upgrades” to its existing nuclear arsenal; it’s a process that was started during the Obama administration, but the research must have been going on for years prior to that.
If the world is destroyed, it will be a white-collar crime, done in a business-like way, by large numbers of individuals involved in a chain of actions, each one having a touch of innocence.
– From Dow Shall Not Kill
I’ve come across Uncommon Sense – a book of quotes from the speeches and writings of Howard Zinn [amazon] – it is a fabulous “toilet tank book”, something you can read in those short pauses to contemplate.
My first grinder was a dual-wheel 1/16hp bench grinder I got at a yard sale for $5 in 1976. It turned on and off with a little switch that was between the wheels – perfectly set up so you could catch the sleeve of your hoodie in the spinning wheels and make a great mess. Luckily it was only 1/16hp.
… And the winner may be: Commentariat Comrade Reginald Selkirk. Comrade Selkirk, your [classified] [REDACTED] award has been placed in the award-vault and [REDACTED] 2,000 feet [classified] concrete.
You can buy a cop’s soul for a measly $3,000-$6,000. I hope every one of them realizes how their bosses and unions have just debased them. They probably don’t care – if they were the kind of people who care, they wouldn’t be cops. If you recall, I believe that being a cop is one of the handful of inherently immoral jobs [stderr].
Back when I was doing road-shows to raise money for the start-up that didn’t happen, several of the venture capitalists we met with said things like, “right now, we’re investing in blockchain.” As far as I am concerned, they could just have easily said “quantum.”