Friday Ephemera

engine failure…
I had this hammered in to my flight brain: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In that order.
This kid did it almost perfectly – he’s too chatty with the tower, and does not declare an emergency (not that it would have made any difference since he had no air traffic issues). Squawking the wrong code was amusing but harmless. Most important, he rapidly picked a great place to aim, preserving a couple of options on the way.
I used to fly a Cherokee out of Palo Alto CA. In that same plane, my instructor had the main engine oil seal blow out right over San Francisco International. Landed there safely among the big jets. Some weeks prior I had rejected that plane during preflight checks because of a suspicious drop of fresh oil on an engine head bolt. I suspect the maintenance effed up when they “fixed” that problem.

Assorted vintage ray-guns.
Those old ray guns had a certain style.

And finally, the lamp you’ve been itching to get your hands on.
Cross it with a lava lamp and you might have something.

An educator speaks
Maybe she could learn to speak in unbroken sentences

I suspect it is $950 per robbery incident. A relatively careful robber would only hit a given place once a day at the most.
Of course, it would be quite funny if the bystanders robbed the robbers and returned the loot to the store.

Morning, all.
I am starting to think that we shouldn’t worry about making educators feel bad.
The speaker – the one having trouble finishing sentences or linking them together – is Dr Jennifer Harvey. She’s a professor of religion at Drake University. Her preoccupations include “race, gender, activism, politics, spirituality, justice.”
Apparently, she has a Ph.D. in Christian social ethics.
And so, her “goal” is to make white children feel “guilt.” For being white.

FTFY
As noted here more than once, the proponents of these policies – essentially, psychological abuse – do not acknowledge any error on their part, even when the consequences of their ambitions are predictably dire, and obviously and vividly disastrous in practice, and disastrous in practice over and over again. Instead, they double down and lie, and denounce those who dare object as “racists” and “white supremacists.” Even if those objecting happen to have brown skin.
One should therefore not assume that these are people who mean well.

I can’t seem to open the ‘ | I wonder why no-one wants to read woke Iron Man comics.’ link..? It appears to link back to the main page here…

I can’t seem to open the ‘ | I wonder why no-one wants to read woke Iron Man comics.’ link..? It appears to link back to the main page here…
It works fine for me. How many margueritas did you have for breakfast?

Only £3,500
I understand that in order to prevent the lamp unexpectedly going off, you can purchase an optional “retaining” ring to hold down the, er, casing.
£500.

I can certainly think of someone who is “spiritually, psychologically, and morally malformed” though her use of “we” there is just a tad presumptuous.
In case it needs saying, it’s rather important that these damaged people, who evidently wish to damage others, should have no influence whatsoever over children, or over those employed to educate them.
And yet, here we are.

Elephant paints elephant
Phffft, that elephant isn’t a very good drawer, even *I* can do better than that.
Stupid elephant.

Your new neighbours.

That’s big of you, Jennifer. What a total bitch.
If you think of ostentatious wokeness as a kind of camouflage, an attempt to mask unsavoury, even sociopathic, motives, while gleefully indulging them, you won’t go far wrong.

unsavoury, even sociopathic, motives…
The most disturbing thing is the reaction to her pronouncements (or lack of it) from her audience.
Harvey is saying that she wants to hurt children’s feelings, but only those whose feelings have not already been hurt enough. How will she know which children deserve such treatment? She’ll identify them by skin colour (because such practices have always gone so well). But she adds, generously, that she won’t be too cruel.
Any group of normal, decent people hearing someone speak in this way would respond with jeers and mockery. Are we to assume that those assembled silently in the room with Harvey are as creepy and malevolent as she is?

How many margueritas did you have for breakfast?
I knew there was something missing. [ Adds to shopping list ]

If you think of ostentatious wokeness as a kind of camouflage, an attempt to mask unsavoury, even sociopathic, motives, while gleefully indulging them, you won’t go far wrong.
Just a glance at her face is disturbing.

Also Today in Racism™: Math and science, because an Echo doesn’t understand an accent.

This kid did it almost perfectly
What made it for me (as a former military fighter aviator) and made me giggle hysterically for about 5 minutes were his two restrained but heartfelt words as the aircraft came to a stop “Holy Shit”

because an Echo doesn’t understand an accent.
Because NOBODY should have ANYTHING ANYWHERE in the WORLD until absolutely EVERYONE EVERYWHERE can have that EXACT SAME THING working PERFECTLY for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. Anything less is infintyisms. Just so you understand. This rule has been bloody obvious for decades, generations even. It’s about damn time you evil fascists understood this.

The joke’s on you. Archimedes, Newton, and Edison were all Nigerians. Any proof otherwise is just further example of the systemic racism of our society. Prove me wrong. Go ahead. I dare you.

Quis custodiet loots ipsos custodes looters ?

Is it just me wanting to see it do a poo?

Don’t make me flick the lights on and off.

The resemblance is uncanny.
The first comment…

Do you have an extra £15,000 lying around? Prefab root cellar for today’s sustainable companies and cosmopolitans (Via Comrade Arthur)