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Open thread 7/20/24 — 17 Comments

  1. Meme seen on the internet, republished by Power Line:

    Excuse me — both X and SpaceX are moving to Texas and not ONE JOURNALIST went with the headline, “All my Xes live in Texas?”

  2. Re: “All my Xes live in Texas?”

    Kate:

    Made my day.

    I was sent back to a fond memory of “Road House” where Sam Elliott feigns an attempt to steal Patrick Swayze’s girl while dancing to the jukebox at breakfast in a diner.

    –“All my ex’s live in Texas” – Road House clip (1989)”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4pgGPzurK4

  3. Interesting development regarding funding for Ukraine. Germany has cut it’s allotment for Ukraine from approx. $8 billion this year to $4 billion in 2025, due to necessary investments in German security.
    The Chancellor said that since Ukraine is receiving $50 billion from a “loan” of the frozen Russian assets they don’t need the additional German support.

    So much for European solidarity.

    Germany Slashes Ukraine Funding by Half: Berlin getting Ready for Trump? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXBjByASGQ

  4. The story we always heard was that Joe Biden didn’t want to run in 2016 because he was broken up over Beau’s death. Maybe, but what’s coming out now is that he bitterly resents how Barack, Hillary and the Democratic elite took the opportunity to run in 2016 away from him. I wonder if Joe even remembers what the truth was. Or maybe both versions are equally true for Schrödinger’s President.

  5. Nice vid, Neo… I lack your devotion to the ballet, but they are clearly having a lot of fun, and it bleeds into the viewer.

    “Surrender to the boink”. LMAO.

  6. Re: Biden 2016

    Abraxas:

    Yes, being broken up over a son’s death, yet bitterly resenting being passed over for Hillary in 2016 is entirely consistent with Biden as I understand him.

  7. Sunday Open Thread – World Defense industry stuff/ North Korea

    North Korean Military Capabilities & Strategy – Nukes, Numbers & (bad) Economics – Perun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5SSQA8VPU

    00:00:00 — Opening Words
    00:01:05 — What Am I Talking About?
    00:01:43 — The Great Unknowns
    00:02:35 — History
    00:07:21 — Lesson – The Songun Paradox
    00:16:48 — Defining Objectives
    00:27:55 — The KPA
    00:47:48 — The Air Force
    00:53:32 — Naval Component
    00:57:31 — Nuclear Program
    01:06:07 — The Russia Connection
    01:09:25 — Channel Update

  8. Big Brother Hears All–

    Having read how many of our new appliances have an Internet connection and can, thus, potentially listen in to us in our homes, and report to who knows where, I have avoided buying things like new refrigerators (trying to reestablish my router’s connection to the Internet the other day, I noticed one of the other possible connection points is a nearby neighbor’s refrigerator) and coffee makers with this capability.

    No Amazon products which listen in, SIRI is supposedly turned off on my I Phone, and my security cameras supposedly don’t have the ability to listen in, but are, nonetheless, pointing outward. However, I do have and routinely wear an Apple watch.

    A relative moved out to a western state, and we were talking to her on the phone about her new house and, later, my wife and I were talking about the real estate situation in that state–a state which we had never talked about before.

    Well, lo and behold, yesterday, out of the blue, my Youtube feed featured a lot of ads for real estate in the state that this relative had moved to.

    My wife also noted that, a couple of days ago, she was talking–outside–to a neighbor about the subject of Humming birds and, lo and behold, the next day she got an ad from an organization dealing with gardens and humming birds that she hadn’t heard from in several years.

    Quite a couple of coincidences, huh?

    So either some device or other is listening in on our conversations and/or Big Brother has developed such an accurate profile of us that it can very accurately predict the subjects we will be interested in, and currently discussing.

  9. What a coinkydink!

    A couple of hours after my wife and I were discussing our household and personal electronics potentially spying on us, and an hour or less after I wrote the comment about this above, what do I get but an E-mail touting an article from my VPN provider asking the question, are your electronics spying on you?

  10. Just this morning I stumbled upon this very interesting and entertaining lecture by an archeologist/anthropologist about his recent revolutionary findings in an almost inaccessible cave in southern Africa.

    This guy is quite a showman, and his discoveries are, it seems, revolutionary.*

    * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGfMBSxB4g

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