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skydog

@skydog@sfba.social

I was 'guy in the chalk outline', formerly 'skydog', in the birdhouse.

B'hammer, WA.

Interested in #science, #politics, #3Dprinting, #arthistory, and just about anything else. I have > 17,000 hrs in an airplane, mostly in seat 0-A. (#aviation)

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VikingChieftain, to random
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Russian and Nepalese cannon fodder try to communicate as best they can. At least the Nepalese now know where the Ukrainians are.

video/mp4

skydog,
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@WashingtonIrving @VikingChieftain

You know, you may have hit on something there. Maybe we should be using drones to occasionally drop cell phones to troops, the day before their trenches are targeted. Not only would it give some chance for their word to get out, but after doing that a couple of times, it's a nice signal to them that their trench is about to be plowed under. Makes 'em twitchy.

skydog,
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@ekknappenberger @VikingChieftain @WashingtonIrving

Russia's professional corps has been largely decimated. But even at the onset of the war, the reservists were woefully undertrained. Even Russia is majority underdeveloped, just like Chechnya and the -stans.

I graduated USAFA, and flew military for 7. Training to 'reserve' level is maintaining a proficiency, at best. Unless one's full time, it's not training to expertise. Then drag them off to a strange theatre with no support, and we wouldn't do much better. And now they're down to conscripted reservists. Those 'morons' had perfectly good, and probably productive lives (disregarding released convicts here) before impressment into service.

Unless they're personally war criming, I'd like to kill them with the respect they would have deserved, if not impressed. Discounting them as morons has the danger of hubris.

skydog,
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@ekknappenberger @VikingChieftain @WashingtonIrving

There's a parable about a samurai who was tasked to kill the mayor of an opposing village. As he was about to kill the mayor, the mayor spit in his face. The samurai paused, sheathed his sword, and walked away.

When you riddle out why he didn't kill the mayor then and there, you've found out the 'proper', some might say soulful, way to kill, in war.

skydog,
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@VikingChieftain @ekknappenberger @WashingtonIrving

Sorry, I may have hit the wrong reply, but the question was made for ekknap. No, the point being that the samurai had been angered, and he would have slain his opponent in anger. He recognized that and walked away.

Anger in war is useless. You use your training to remain dispassionate. That does not remove assuming the role of mad dog, but it is a role you play for maximum effect in a situation that demands it.

Hubris is another thing worse that worthless in war. It creates a hole in the understanding of one's own strength. Respect the enemy.

RickiTarr, to random
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Remembering when this Tomb Raider came out, and thinking, Wow, game graphics can't get much better than this!

skydog,
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@RickiTarr

It was a confusing time for some of us. After all, milk comes in rectangular jugs.

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/... Erica Orden:

Trump returned to courtroom accompanied by Eric, Lara Trump, + rest of entourage.

McB:

Back in overflow, the rules are as strict as ever—even Chris Hayes
gets ID'd.

"Press credentials?" a court officer demands, as another reporter gives a good natured, "You sure you're a member of the press, Chris?"

skydog,
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@tdwllms1 @GottaLaff

NFL

Toilet humor? Please!

No, really...please. We need more of that shit.

GottaLaff, to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️
: We have witnesses in this courtroom that have made a point of going out, being on TV, making money but we are not allowed to. President is somehow not allowed to.

Acyn:

(The gag order does prevent Trump from being on TV or making money)

skydog,
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@GottaLaff

NFL

I'm not going to blow a gasket about Trump's surrogates. Their words don't have the anti-gravitas of Trump's particular insanity, when it issues from himself.

With any luck, as a matter of fact, when Trump is found guilty in this case (I'm not allowing myself to think he will not be), the muck will hit them as well.

skykiss, to Ukraine
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First Russians turned off transponders to disguise ships full of goods looted from , now even replacing ship names with nonsense lettering.

Russia is just a 1980s gangster movie.

Putin's terrorist state here transporting stolen grain and obscuring the ship's name with gibberish, in violation of regulations which mandate that a vessel's name be clearly displayed on both the portside and starboard bow. The ship Matros Koshka fails to comply with this rule and should not be permitted to transit. In April 2024, unnamed vessels and those flying false flags transited the .

@potus

skydog,
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@skykiss @potus

Nice ship.
It would be a shame if it impaled itself on a piece of Nord 2...

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

skydog,
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@RickiTarr

I live in the very northwestern tip of the US state of Washington, and let me put it this way...

When the apocalypse comes and everyone loads up their land cruisers to search out the the paradise that lay beyond the destruction, they'll all be headed in this direction.

skykiss, (edited ) to Ukraine
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Eighty years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought for Nazism to lose forever. But today, Ukrainians are again opposing the evil that has been reborn, has come again, and wants to destroy us again. An army of monsters who kill, torture, and wipe out peaceful cities and villages from the face of the earth. Evil, the name of which is Russian fascism. Abbreviated as the Russian Federation.

On the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism, remembering millions of Ukrainians who, together with other peoples, fought and won, we believe and bring a new day of a new victory closer, when the expulsion of the Nazis from Ukraine.

It's impossible to deny that Russia has its own versions of Nazi ideology. The way to stop Nazism remains the same. Only joint efforts can be effective.

Russia puts every country that doesn’t submit to its terror on its "list."

As long as Russia exists in its current form, no country is safe unless it is a pawn or accomplice of a terrorist state. Part 1.

🧵 1/

skydog, (edited )
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@skykiss

You know, maybe what we need is another 'Pearl Harbor'. What we have right now is VERY reminiscent of the isolationism of the United States in the 1930's. The feeling that what happened in Europe (or the Pacific) really didn't concern us. But it concerned our allies, until it finally did 'concern' us.

We finally resolved that with an a couple of fission bombs. So I ask Mastodon, now that we are in the nuclear age...

What should our upcoming Pearl Harbor look like? Enquiring Minds Want To Know.

SteveBellovin, to random
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Well, the Brother support web pages kept me from going out and buying a new printer/scanner—their fix worked. They lost out on an immediate sale, but that (plus, of course, the fact that they don't play weird, privacy-invasive games with toner cartridges) has helped confirm that this is the ONLY brand I'll buy.

skydog,
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@SteveBellovin

Brother was fine back in the day, when they had bulk loading. These days, I use Epson, with the tanks. If you get one full refill in, the savings on ink has paid for the printer. And I haven't found any IoT nags on it. I'm somewhere over a dozen printers thru the years, now.

GottaLaff, to Canada
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🇨🇦For those interested, finally, Part 3 of my series is done. Parts 1, 2 are linked in Part 3 but just in case, I'm linking here too.

This is for anyone interested in why, how we managed to get permanent residency.

Everyone else, ignore, although you may find it interesting regardless.

Part 3: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-moving-to-canada-part-3-its-happening.html

Part 1: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada.html

Part 2: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada-part-two-how.html

skydog,
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@GottaLaff

I read part 3. You're gonna love it. If you're not already aware, Vancouver has improv...a couple, I think. One on Granby Island. And Bellingham has the Upfront, started by Ryan Stiles, but I think he's moved on.

And the restaurant scene. Oh boy. I envy you. At my age, I doubt they'd accept me, and I like my acreage & solitude, but riding it out this side of the border is not comfortable.

cynblogger, to random
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Barron Trump chosen as Florida delegate to Republican National Convention

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/barron-trump-florida-delegate-republican-national-convention?CMP=share_btn_url

Is this the next media star in the Trump royal family?


skydog,
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@cynblogger

I don't see the kid growing up any differently than Donald himself.

To throw him into the cauldron of the family politics at that age? Good Lord, I don't give that young man a 1% chance at anything resembling a healthy life. He was born into the Trump lab, where they find out how to royally fuck up a person.

GottaLaff, to legal
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starts HERE.
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/… Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for it….

skydog,
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@MarkRDavid @GottaLaff

NFL

Too true! Daylight Savings Time is one thing, but I had to set my clocks 3 hrs ahead when the trial started!

skykiss, to Law
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In a remarkable move, Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon vacated (cancelled) the May 20th trial date in Donald Trump's stolen classified documents/obstruction of justice/Espionage case in Florida, and she announced that she will be setting no trial date. This is particularly outrageous given that Trump's own lawyers had previously suggested an August trial date.

Cannon's conduct is reminiscent of some of the evidence in Trump's New York case: David Pecker, head of Enquirer tabloid magazine, was involved in a crooked scheme with Trump to catch and kill damaging stories to help the criminal in the 2016 election. Now, it sure looks like Judge Cannon is Catching and Killing Trump's Espionage case, which undoubtedly will help Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

Regarding Judge Cannon's pro-Trump bias, the recusal cup runneth over. Hopefully, Special Counsel Jack Smith agrees, and finally files a motion to REMOVE Judge Aileen "Pecker" Cannon from presiding over Trump's Florida prosecution.

Description of the bias and corruption of Eileen Cannon in Donald's Espionage crimes case in Florida. She canceled the trial date.

skydog,
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@skykiss

If there had been an argument about forcing Cannon's recusal further delaying the trial phase of this case until after the election, that concern has just been removed by Cannon herself. There is virtually no way that can happen now.

Therefore all other factors surrounding a recusal advance in importance. Replace her with a performing judge.

I can imagine the rest of the District staff is getting hella tired of having to wipe the egg off their faces, on behalf of Cannon.

GottaLaff, to random
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👍🏻 #RFKJr.'s new hire who downplayed #Jan6 appears to have been at the Capitol during the attack

Photos and videos from outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, uncovered by online sleuths and NBC News appear to show Zach Henry, a right-wing influencer now working for Kennedy's campaign.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-staffer-zach-henry-jan-6-downplay-capitol-attack-rcna150476

skydog,
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@GottaLaff

Two indicators here:
Kennedy is more aligned to MAGA than to more democratic principles, and...
His staff will be primarily intent on debunking Biden, much moreso than Trump.

Kennedy's staff is going do what his staff is going do. Personally, I like that people in it are easily identified as to their political schooling. It's a brush that will help paint Kennedy's negatives.

skydog,
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@GottaLaff

Absolutely agree, but they've emptied the insane asylums for this one.

It's either MAGA or zombies, take your pick. Both want to eat your brains. I group Kennedy with MAGA, in that I think his primary motivation is to poke his finger in the eye of liberalism, and more in the specific, his own family. Maybe its a headsnap reaction to pushback from people close to him in his previous roles, but he could not be more different from the person he publicly was 30 years ago.

skykiss, to random
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Rather than just giving Ukraine the tools to deal with these monsters, European politicians continue to ignore Russia's terror attacks across the continent, and it's only getting worse.

Just in the past 2 months

  • Derailing trains in Sweden
  • Burned warehouse in UK
  • 2 arrested in Bavaria before attacking German logistics centers
  • Destroyed signalling systems on Czech railways
  • Attack on car of Estonian minister
  • Jamming GPS across several sections of Nothern Europe from Kaliningrad

Ukraine is willing to do all the work on this if merely provided the tools. Two years from now, Europeans will be praying to go back in time and arm Ukraine.

Putin's terrorist engage in "disinformation, sabotage, acts of violence, cyber and electronic interference.. and other hybrid operations."

Was this an act of war? Prelude to war Russian state-directed propagandists announced is coming?

NATO sounds alarm over 'hostile' Russian activity across Europe, US

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/04/video-pic-us-army-ammunition-plant-catches-fire/

#RussiaIsATerroristState #arrestputin

skydog,
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@skykiss

There are quite often preludes to war. I was recently reminded that the firing on Ft. Sumter was preceded by about 6 attacks on federal facilities throughout the South, the week before it was attacked, starting our Civil War. Putin has already started his European campaign, and is trying to keep it as low key as possible, is my take. I'd be busy keeping tabs on non-Ukrainian related troop movements they're making, as well as equipment transport.

As a counter, I'd invoke some action against the Wagner group in Africa. Some non-linear response that will set Putin back on his heels, and make him doubt his intel on the tactical landscape. We're not unskilled when it comes to 'Crazy Fox' maneuvers. Create some space between Putin and his generals.

GottaLaff, to random
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I warned you 👉🏼💥Katie Phang:

NEW: has now moved for a mistrial.

Todd Blanche: We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning, the guardrails were thrown aside, that testimony was so unduly prejudicial to Trump and the charges in this case and the testimony about the incident in 2006 is way different from the stories she was pedaling in 2016,

skydog,
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@GottaLaff

NFL

///BLANCHE: “There’s no way to unring the bell in our view.”///

It's the extension of the common legal principle, "Showing the defendant to be guilty is extremely prejudicial to the defendant."

TheConversationUS, to religion
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To make the moon a graveyard goes against the beliefs of various human religions.

Here’s a look at what believers would say about this winter’s attempt to send a probe holding the remains of paying customers to the lunar surface

https://theconversation.com/why-having-human-remains-land-on-the-moon-poses-difficult-questions-for-members-of-several-religions-221399
@philosophy

skydog,
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@TheConversationUS @philosophy

"The key concern, and not just for the Navajo Nation, will be how to respect all religious traditions as humans explore and commercialize the Moon."

I cannot tell you how infuriating that is. If there is not a safety aspect to having cremated ashes (some carbon, calcium & minerals) placed on the moon, religion can keep to its own, back with the 'God in the Gaps', and get out of the way of rational, non-mythic people. Religion will kill us all, and now it's telling us where we can be buried when we are dead? I don't have words strong enough. Time for religion to get back in its damned lane, AND STAY THERE.

skydog,
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@Anarchy_How @TheConversationUS @philosophy

Deriving moral stricture thru a cosmological myth. When the myth is a illustration of human interaction (such as the Golden Rule), it serves as a conduit for teaching. But to take that cosmology and craft miscellaneous strictures around it, to give them authority (like Prosperity Gospel), is metastasizing a power structure for one's own ends...not illustrative of humanism. In any event, 'belief' in a myth is fraught, if one is not simultaneously acknowledging that myth is an analogy, at best, and sometimes is nothing more than a cute story.

potus, to random

Folks, it's my honor to present the nineteen extraordinary individuals who will join me at the White House this afternoon to receive our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

skydog,
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@potus

The Medal of Freedom has a whole hell of a lot of restitution to go thru, after having been awarded to Rush Limbaugh in 2020 by Trump.

This goes a way toward that restitution.

KarenDorman, (edited ) to Fashion
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Hey friends, does anyone know what either of these objects are?
(They were found in a deceased relative's jewelry box.)
Please boost for added eyes, thanks! 😊

The lettering on the object on the left says:
Hadley Made in USA
Both ends open up to 90⁰ and the main body expands and contracts about a centimetre.

A clever person has said that the object in the right is a Writescope telescoping mechanical pencil. Thanks!

@sewing

skydog,
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@KarenDorman @sewing

On the left, a pocket sized punch or stitcher, I would think. Its use would be in workshops, possibly to hand correct stitching, for materials like light leather? Or could it be an imprint, at the base? For embossing a company mark on something, after inspection? But the basic action seems obvious.

skydog,
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@Tooden @KarenDorman @sewing

Well, all I see on a company history site is that they merged with a larger diversified company that might have made something like this, small batch. But it's definitely outside of Hadley's core business.

skydog,
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@Tooden @KarenDorman @sewing

I may have hit on it. This company is exactly the type of use I expected. They make watch bands.

https://www.hadleyroma.com/

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