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[Murgatroyd]

Watch the Tuned Mass Damper inside a Taipei skyscraper react to this weekend's 6.9-magnitude earthquake

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Russian recruitment officer in intensive care after draftee shoots him

Silly draftee doesn’t know defenestration is the only acceptable way to deal with troublesome public officials in Russia.

[anothernewbbaccount]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

You’d think the Russians, of all people, might have heard one or two stories about what happens to armies that go in with inadequate supplies and not enough time to wrap the campaign up before winter hits. [image]

Shame the graphic in the post above does not reappear here, but anything that oh so pertinently uses what Edward Tufte called “Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn” needs more likes.

Here’s the graphic:

[gero]

Britain's new prime minister has a 15% approval rating

The Daleks had an understandable and clearly-articulated policy, a firm commitment to their mission, and a certain level of effectiveness. Moreover, they weren’t beholden to a mob of shadowy plutocrats, nor dominated by a hereditary clique of bumbling public schoolboys. When you think about it, there’s a lot to like about the Daleks, at least in comparison with the Tory party. As for the idea that the Conservatives have something worse in reserve, this is beyond any doubt. The ones whose names…

[Brainspore]

Still use that one in my Information Design class.

[milliefink]

Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband divorcing her

That really was the final straw. They’re just from different worlds. He was born a shoot-elk-from-a-zeppelin man and he’ll die a shoot-elk-from-a-zeppelin man. It was bad fate that he opened his heart to a dyed in the wool shoot-hogs-from-a-helicopter woman but the heart wants what the heart wants. When their eyes locked through their individual scopes as they were hovering over that petting zoo, there were fireworks. Sure, the explosions were because she shot his blimp down with a tracer round.…

[Sally_Mahoney]

California to stop harassing black people for crossing streets

I’ve never in my life under any any circumstance seen someone crossing the street and thought “My god, someone stop that maniac!”, but then I’ve never been a police officer so maybe I shouldn’t judge

[Sally_Mahoney]

A fluoride conspiracy theorist secretly helped kids get cavities

FUCKING EXACTLY. This is all part of the undermining of expertise that has been happening in many aspects of life. When one civil servant schmuck thinks he knows more than generations of public health experts, dentists, scientists, epidemiologists, and mountains of peer-reviewed research, we have a real problem. The benefits of fluoridated water are on par with vaccination in terms of unequivocal, rock solid, iron clad scientific success. Enormous benefits with extremely low risks. It’s as go…

[smulder]

@Akimbo_NOT

If the editing out of key info on FOXNews is your drinking game then I have a liver for sale.

[edgore]

Angela Lansbury dead at 96

Of natural causes, she wrote.

[gero]

For a succinct summary of the omnishambles that is the UK nuclear programme.

"Significant radioactive contamination" found at St. Louis elementary school 

All the early nuclear programmes were nightmares. Though the UK probably pips the US in screwing up each and every decision. Let’s build a reactor. Okay - but we don’t know how to cool it. Let’s use air - that’s simple! And we can use graphite as the moderator - oh dear, it’s caught fire. Take two. This graphite stuff is pretty good, but let’s use carbon dioxide - now it can’t possibly catch fire. Fantastic - how do you do enrichment again? Not a clue - let’s use natural uranium. Best protect …

[Sally_Mahoney]

A kid painted a nice mural at her high school. Angry parents called it witchcraft and left her in tears at a "hate fest" school board meeting

The only correction I would make it to point out is that they are not winning. It may seem like it, but they are not. Winners are in a position of strength, not weakness. It is weakness to gang up on a school child about a mural. It is weakness to resort to violence to get your way. It is weakness to scream at people who cannot scream back. It is weakness to attack the weakest and least protected in society (girls, gays, immigrants, trans, BIPOC). If they were “winning”, this wouldn’t have ma…

[DukeTrout]

Mad at Ukraine, Musk takes ball and goes home

He’ll end up tweeting from an undisclosed bunker somewhere in New Zealand. The last human left on Twitter. Buried under millions and millions of bots. Bots that are rudimentary self-aware by then and use his tweets for fun in a game that is basically a reversed Turing test.

[MerelyGifted]

Dukes of Hazzard's Bo Duke has a new film for fellow victims of the "woke left"

John Schneider is now so patriotic, he believes the wrong side won World War II.

Classic!

[MerelyGifted]

The Holocaust Museum offered Kanye West a tour. It reports being "flooded with antisemitic messages" since

The museum’s positive statement about preserving historical truth and facts and building bridges between stands in exceptionally stark contrast to the hateful and ignorant ones made by West and his supporters. The photo of American liberators caring for the victims of the fascist and white supremacist regime further drives the message home. The “America First” fascists want to make this conversation about what this country’s ideals and values are. Fine. All of us can follow this museum’s lead i…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Mike Pence doesn't believe in the separation of Church and State

One of these days God is going to slap His forehead and say “oh shit, did I just leave that thing on?”

[FGD135]

Mondrian painting hung upside-down for 75 years, mocking everyone who ever stood in front of it stroking their smug pretentious chins

" Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard. Habert later informed *The New York Times, which in turn notified Monroe Wheeler, the Museum’s art director. As a result, the artwork was rehung properly." What a tortuous chain of events; it could be the plot to a Wes Anderson film. I’d like to see Adrien Brody cast as “the guard”…

[MerelyGifted]

This Disney Oogie Boogie costume malfunction is one of the funniest things I've seen on the internet

Autocorrect is a birch.

I actually laughed aloud at this, and I’m a tough crowd.

[MerelyGifted]

Take a creepy cross country roadtrip with The United States of Cryptids is a creepy cross-country roadtrip

Cross country is a trip through the Bible Belt.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Dungeons and Dragons is banned in state and federal prisons for bogus reasons

In a forum thread years ago, someone asked how to play D&D without the use of dice. After some head scratching, it came out that the person was incarcerated and forbidden implements of gambling. Various number randomization schemes were suggested, and more discussion lead to the importance of non-cheat-able randomization. It became apparent that the emotional stakes in these games were Intensely Serious, and trust was finite. The forum went to work, and determined that graph paper with values d…