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Who knew? We don't have a dog, but as I casually watch dog food commercials, I've noticed that they only display and mention food from the produce isle! I assume that this focus on "healthy" foods is being done to influence humans into buying dog-food based on the assumption that if it is...

Western society has been committing cultural suicide over the past few years. Finally, courtesy of Grok; got around to seeing if there was a one word descriptor . Seems that this is a word that we could be using. Oikophobe **Oikophobe**An oikophobe is someone who harbors a fear or hatred toward...

Amazon Prime had a very interesting documentary on the development of British radar in preparing for WWII. It did not delve into discussing US or German radar development. The kicker, in this documentary, is that the Germans had a hazy perception that the British possessed radar but they were...

Trump has an imaginative sense of irony. South Africa has gone off the rails with being anti-White and antisemitic. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86p8q482x3o Just recently Trump expelled the South African Ambassador to the US for being hostile to the US and spewing racism...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/jeff-bezos-announces-big-change-washington-post-opinion-page-top-editor-steps-down

Thankfully, this forum is very reasonable and open. On a Linux forum, I was unceremoniously censored for simply using the name "Musk".:mad: Unbelievable! I just submitted an appeal. I did a quick search on "Biden", who is clearly a controversial person. Received 22 hits on the forum. So those...

We lived in Alaska during President Carter's administration, so he was a vague entity. Moreover, at that time we were busy getting our careers going so we really didn't pay much attention to politics. Subsequently, Carter emerged as a nice guy who was out of his element as president. In...

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https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/new-jersey-mysterious-drone-sightings-live-updates https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/13/nj-mayor-drones-should-be-taken-down-theres-refusal-to-do-so-even-when-they-go-out-to-sea/ Really, nothing to see here. People are simply misidentifying aircraft and...

I am a fan of the space shuttle program. Unfortunately the program "died' in 2011. That was 13 years ago. I was aghast that NASA did not have have a new space shuttle based on updated technology immediately available to replace the obsolete space shuttles. Evidently, I missed, (maybe because it...

Seems that Giant Freakin Robot is keeping the memory of "Dark Star" alive. This is a really really low budget film. In concluding, Freakin Robot writes: "If you’ve never seen Dark Star, it is well worth your time, even today, because it’s an absolutely bonkers take on sci-fi that nails the exact...

https://nypost.com/2024/11/12/us-news/trump-announces-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-to-lead-new-department-of-government-efficiency/ Will Musk and Ramaswamy receive a "finders fee" for every job that they eliminate? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/free-356-issues-of-galaxy-the-groundbreaking-1950s-science-fiction-magazine.html https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine In case you are unaware there is an excellent science fiction resource: The Internet Speculative Fiction Database My favorite SF...

We had a lot in 2016. Now its time for a new 2024 series of anguished people upset by the election results.

Democrats made Orwell's 1984 their official playbook,

Received my stamp catalogue today from the US Postal Service. No cheer here. With Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, and Christmas coming-up there were virtually no stamps to provide a warm fuzzy feeling of "cheer" for the Christmas season. Totally boring and devoid of any theme. Where are the...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/hacker-boots-linux-on-intels-first-ever-cpu/ Now who has the courage to take on the challenge of getting the current version of Windows to boot on an Intel 4004?

https://www.xda-developers.com/can-your-isp-tell-if-youre-using-a-vpn/ https://nordvpn.com/blog/can-isp-see-vpn/

Harris proclaimed that we need to fix price gaging gouging. There is an irony in that. In an inflationary environment, corporations will (of course) report "record" profits because the value of the dollar has depreciated. Next, if Biden Economics is truly working, the political optics would...