interesting developments IMO

Some of the drones we had 5 years ago with 7 and 10 foot wing spans...Vertical battery takeoff and then a gas engine takes over for cruise in excess of 7 hours.

I do hope for all our sake that the new trump regime can honestly fix some of the crap that has been going on inside our government. Corruption and waste is unbelievable IMO how about a 28 million per copy electric mail truck 3 billion spent for 93 trucks..

The title says it all to avoid the youtube sensors ... They especially want to ban the long black shovels... I have spent some time fishing in Canada out in the northern  boonies.. We flew in (private aircraft) and I brought a weapon as did several others so screw Canada and their city dwelling idiots... Time frame was early 80s

Is anyone here familiar with the concept of "liminal space"?

There was a short on 4Chan about 5 years ago called "The Backrooms" that brought this idea to light and got the attention of the internet.

I won't ask anything more than if anyone is familiar with this and what it means to them, but anything you add would be great. Thanks in advance.

Quote:The main content of the program: 0:00 Intro 1:09 All industries are "waiting for death"! Bosses flee, companies shut down, workers return to their hometowns, and the wave of jumping off bridges is increasing. 6:29 Unpaid wages, protests for rights ignored, workers enraged and set fire to the factory. Unable to survive, nothing left to lose! 10:15 Public discontent in China continues to intensify, with people realizing the CCP is the root of all problems. Society is like a giant pressure cooker, and revolution is approaching. 13:45 The CCP Fears "Peaceful Evolution" and "Color Revolutions" the Most, but all measures of suppression have failed and it can only helplessly await collapse. 18:58 Even sanitary pads are counterfeited and filled with harmful substances: made with cockroach legs, insect eggs, and cigarette filters; down jackets filled with pig and dog hair. Is there anything left in China that is real and safe?

Some interesting findings about human evolution

Quote:What if everything we thought we knew about human origins was wrong? For decades, the Out of Africa theory dominated our understanding of evolution, claiming that modern humans emerged from a single African population and spread across the globe. But groundbreaking discoveries and genetic research are rewriting history, revealing a far more complex and interconnected story. From the ancient Petralona skull to the mysterious 'Ubeidiya vertebra' found in Israel, fossils are challenging the timeline of human migration. And genetic studies now suggest that modern humans may have descended from multiple interconnected groups within Africa, rather than a single origin. Could the multiregional hypothesis, which argues for simultaneous evolution across continents with gene flow between populations, hold the real key to our past? Explore how new findings are unraveling the simplicity of the Out of Africa theory and revealing the intricate web of migrations, interactions, and evolutionary milestones that define humanity's story. Are we the product of a single cradle—or a global network of ancient communities?

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Quote:What happens when a top cartel trafficker turns his life around to help others? Meet Dr. Hal Bradley—a man who lived the dark world of cartels, survived a cartel kill order, and became a pastor serving those in crisis.

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December 9, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell

When I saw the email from V.T. and what it was about, I knew for a certainty that it had to be immediately filed in my "finals" folder for this week's scheduled blogs, because I knew I'd have to schedule a blog, or rather, a rant about it.  Not since C.S. Lewis penned those memorable lines about the blithering codswallop that quackademics would descend into in his novel That Hideous Strength have I ever read anything so nonsensical.  Get a load of this:

Why this Cambridge grad’s PhD thesis on smelly people is dividing the internet: ‘Olfactory oppression’

Pity the poor examiner who had to read hundreds of pages of this:

Quote:The thesis, titled “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose” examined how scent facilitates “smell’s application in creating and subverting gender, class, sexual, racial and species power structures,” according to the abstract (summary). The thesis states that “olfactory disgust” can result in a person’s “rejection.”

Are you kidding me? This biological female unit wasted time and money to come up with "You stink, please go take a bath and put on a clean change of clothes" for a doctoral dissertation in English literature? And Cambridge put up with it? (I could, of course, say something cruel but honest about "That Place", and it would now be entirely deserved, but I shall refrain from doing so.)  It leaves one to wonder if the examiners had actually read the tome of twaddle, or if they were capable of doing so themselves.  One critic even "gets" the "thesis":

Quote:“Her thesis statement is basically: “If you say someone stinks, people like them less.”

Facing the gale of justified outrage and criticism over her opus magnum on malodor, the biological female unit's response was so typical of the contemporary quackademic: she merely defaults to her moral and intellectual superiority and the "commonness" and implied inability of us laymen:

Quote:She responded to outright threats and vile comments by saying she contacted the police about the posts.

Louks also sought to explain her choice of topic.

“To be clear, this abstract was written for experts within my discipline and field. It was not written for a lay audience and this is not how I would communicate my ideas to the average person,” she wrote.

And then we learn that the biological female unit said this:

Quote:Louks doesn’t appear to be giving the negative reactions a second sniff, with the Cambridge lecturer claiming that they’re primarily coming from a “minority of disgruntled folks.”

“The majority of those commenting and quote tweeting are doing so with generosity, intellectual curiosity, and kindness,” she wrote.

Well, sorry, ma'am, I don't need to open the cover of a comic book to discover that what's inside is a comic book. By the same token, I don't need to open a manhole cover to discover that what lies below is a vile sludge of malodorous and egregious sewage and flummery.

Frankly, however, I am not surprised. Virtually every faculty in the so-called "soft" disciplines - art, literature, history, political science, sociology and so on - in Western quackademia has been coopted by these wannabee cultural Marxists. I saw the process had begun to take root and grow at Oxford when I was there, and it repulsed me and made me sick to my stomach to think that the Oxford of Tolkien, or Lewis, or Wilde, or the Cambridge of Lewis, would sink so low. On one occasion in my personal experience, one of these biological female units was chairing a debate in the Union Society in which I was taking part. I was speaking at the dispatch box, only to have the female debate presiding unit interrupt me, and insist that I use the pronouns "he/she", and not to refer to her as "madam Chairman" or "madam chairwoman" but as "madam chairperson".  I sighed heavily, turned to her, and, refused, saying "Madam Chairman, if on every occasion of the three letters 'man' in a word is to be the occasion of the substitution of the word 'person' for those three letters, then the word 'immanent' shall have to be changed to the word 'impersonent', which rhymes with 'impertinent', which is what I find your whole scheme to be."

It was one of my few shining moments in the Union Society, and I'm happy to say that sanity had not so completely abandoned the university at that time that I even managed to crank out a little applause and a few "hear hears!" from the very thin gallery (it was in the wee hours of the morning and there were precious few in the chamber).  To me, the experience was a lesson that, left unchecked, the kookery that was being tolerated in and promoted by quackademia would grow to such an extent that the result would be tolerated nonsense, and the proud old academic institutions would deservedly lose their stature, and face a choice: either throw these frauds out of your faculties, or continue to tolerate their nonsense, and die, because the sane and rational will go elsewhere.

In the meantime, hold your nose, and remember what stirring words C.S. Lewis wrote about such nonsense (and I'm paraphrasing): "It would be shark, very shark, from anyone's debenture, to allow the  prostindiary initems to esemplate in a continual of porous variations," which he followed up with a rousing "The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised!" (Emphasis added)

In the meantime, three cheers for the United Kingdumb for having, once again, outdone the Amairikuhn quackademy for nonsense. We eagerly look forward to Kamalarkey Harris's appointment to the Cambridge English faculty as Crouton Professor of Lettuce and Literature.

May any possible metaphysical transcendent omniscient and omnipotent conscious being, substance, or entity, redeem and in all other respects superintend the reigning monarchial entity from experiencing or otherwise encountering adverse circumstances or conditions. (Translation: God save the King.)

See you on the flip side...

Sky quake or lightning without the flash or ??