Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Posting from here tonight while keeping you safe from the big bad bear to the East and UFOs to the north...



Gifted my secretary admin with a new...


The UNIVAC III system weighed about 27,225 pounds which obviously won't fit in the photo. I thought she'd be happy until she told me all programs have to be rewritten as they are not compatible with UNIVAC I & II. Oh well, sorry dear, guess you'll be here through the weekend.



Nov 15, 1988: Launch of the Soviet Shuttle "Buran" (meaning "Snowstorm" or "Blizzard") OK-1.01 completed one uncrewed spaceflight, and was destroyed in 2002 due to the collapse of its storage hangar. Oh well.




Hybrid Camel miner on Mars...


Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine, is a video game developed and published by Rocket Science Games for the Sega CD in 1994 and MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1995. What you might not know is Imperator Elon Musk, at the time an employee of Rocket Science Games, worked as a programmer on Loadstar. He is credited as part of the "Ground Control" team.


Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule, if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today.


Snowden and Gen. Michael Hayden at a gala in 2011 as he worked with the CIA’s account with Dell, Inc. before moving to Booz Allen under the NSA.


The former NSA & CIA director said of Snowden, "a troubled young man -- morally arrogant to a tremendous degree -- but a troubled young man." "I suspect he will end up like most of the rest of the defectors who went to the old Soviet Union: Isolated, bored, lonely, depressed -- and most of them ended up alcoholics."
Former NSA chief (Sept 17, 2013)

"We kill people based on metadata."
- Former CIA & NSA Director General Michael Hayden (2014) In 2017, Hayden became a national security analyst for CNN. Well of course he did.

Quote clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcG3M16lgAI

Speaking of the Snowman...



Oh no, 2024 is looking to be an absolute apocalypse for corporate media. Like it or not, we'll all be affected in one form or another by this bloodbath.


Media jobs slashed amid soft ad market

Not sure how we'll all survive without Wired, VICE, Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair.

On the flip-side, apparently Life finds a way...


Shark has virgin birth in a Chicago Zoo


When the roads are closed
Do you know where you should be?
When the lights are dim
Are you going to come crying to me?
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'Cause you're sitting there
With your legs crossed
Looking so carefree...
Do you think you can run away
From your so-called misery?
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[Chorus]
Cause you know the
Tide ain't rollin' in for you
The tide ain't rollin' in for me
Are you going to sink?
Are you going to swim?
Because I'll take you down to the river...
But you're going in.
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Now the choice is yours
Are you in or are you going to back out?
Well this is your life baby
Are you going to take a look around?
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'Cause you seem to think that all
Your chances will chase you down
I'm telling you to open up your eyes
And take those feet off the ground.
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[Chorus]
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Now the roads are closed
Do you know where you should be?
When the lights are dim
Are you going to come crying to me?
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[Chorus]








I'm sure some diluted people on those dopamine platforms will believe this ^^^ is the actual painting, when it is a meme revision of the original from the 1400s:



If I were ultra rich I'd hire the Hamas to tunnel under the Vatican Library.
On second thought those ratlines as above, so below are probably still active in running loot...protected by Swiss Templars.