There’s a disturbing site that sells reservations to restaurants in NYC. For hundreds of dollars to the top ones. What’s next, paying to get in?
Generals Fighting The Last War
“Traditional cannon-based mass fires,” he told the audience, “are still the best solution in an EW environment.” Gen Darryl Williams
At a recent symposium in artilleryville (Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the home of US artillery), artillery General Williams managed to not address lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb was cited as an example of a weapon which is having problems with electronic countermeasures. What none of the generals at the symposium addressed was the very quick adaptions made by the Ukrainians to counter the threats, largely by software quick-fixes. This is something a large, ponderous, military like that of the US cannot easily accomplish.
‘He Gets Us’ Is Just As Bad As It Seems
The Hobby Lobby (among others) funded scheme, named ‘he gets us’, to get more people into churches uses sale of personal information to a data-mining company, which in turn sells the information to pastors ofchurches near the people. It’s a seedy, underhanded way to boost church attendance. Church attendance has been steadily dropping and pastors are getting desperate to fill the pews.
A Large VPN Vulnerability
An attack named Tunnelvision makes all VPN users vulnerable.
(That figure in the tunnel is unknown. A dog? A child?)
Mammal To Mammal H5N1 Transmission
A dangerous new way to get infected.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/should-we-be-worried-about-bird-flu
And you shouldn’t feed cow’s milk to cats at all:
Problems At Tesla
The Muskrat seems determined to turn everything he touches to crap.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles
A Sign That Warfare Has Changed
Ukraine has pulled US donated M1 tanks from the front lines because they are too vulnerable. The age of tanks may be over.
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-abrams-tanks-19d71475d427875653a2130063a8fb7a
A photo published by the Russian military reportedly shows a US-made Abrams main battle tank after it was crippled by a kamikaze drone during fighting near the city of Avdeevka. (Credit: Russian Defense Ministry)
Reading Scrolls
Scientists have been able to read several parts of charred scrolls found in Herculaneum, buried under ash from the 79CE eruption of Vesuvius.
Infrared and X-ray scanners have deciphered more than 1,000 words of Philodemus’ History of the Academy text that were previously illegible.
A Right-Wing Nut Attacks Coca-Cola
Yes, what with everything they do drawing goose-eggs, a short right-winger named Jim (Gym?) Jordan is going after Coke because they don’t advertise on the Joe Rogan show. It would be great if Coca-Cola ignored the letter he sent.
Johnson’s About Turn On Ukraine Aid
Here’s a possible/probable reason for Speaker Johnson’s change of mind about the Ukraine aid bill.
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