109 Replies to “July 31, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. Sorry, dafuq does this have to do with a plane dropping from the sky after ingesting volcanic ash? Why you have to make this about the thing that won’t stop?

      You are like that awkward dude trying to start arguments at a football party while everyone else just wants to get drunk and get laid.

        1. The sanctions are really hurting. This is what happens when one needs to scavenge replacements micro chips from washing machines and cell phones into propaganda bots. The quality of AI (that wasn’t very I to begin with) drops drastically.

    1. Good, he is from Wagner Group. the whole Wagner Group ought to be declared a terrorist organization.

    2. That was probably retaliation for the earlier Ukrainian atrocities. There were dozens of Russian soldiers castrated by Ukrainians. Payback’s a bitch.

      That’s why I favour observing the Geneva Conventions. Otherwise you get this shit in an endless cycle of atrocities.

      2. Funny two days ago all the bots were screaming “fake news” now the code has been updated to “revenge”?

        “That’s why I favour observing the Geneva Conventions. ”

        Peak Lawrow. If Geneva conventions were observed every single creature wearing Siberian uniform would be hanging already.

          1. Nope, just uniformed Siberians,… and arguably their propagandists as well.

  4. I remember when that incident was in the news.

    It wasn’t the last time that aircraft were affected by volcanic eruptions. A number of airliners had engine failures resulting from the ash cloud produced by Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines more than 30 years ago. Similarly, there were widespread groundings as a result of Eyajafjallajökull in Iceland in 2010 as its cloud spread over much of Europe.

    1. BAD It’s funny, I was just watching a couple of episodes of Mayday, the air crash investigation series. I haven’t seen this particular crash but I’m sure that they’ve covered it at some time. Many episodes have a happy ending but not all.
      One episode revealed that a plane crashed when a maintenance crew shift removed 42 screws from a boot on the front edge of the left rear aerolons and failed to tell the incoming crew to install them. The next crew decided not to work on the left aerolon due to time constraint. Two flights later this plane crashed killing all on board.

  5. How about a samurai western? Take a look at the movie Red Sun:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8UmM8bxn8

    This one is an international flick. Although set in the American West, it was filmed in Spain. Its director is Terence Young (British). Its cast includes Charles Bronson (American), Toshiro Mifune (Japanese), Ursula Andress (Swiss), Alain Delon and Capucine (French), and Anthony Dawson (British). The musical score was by Maurice Jarre (French).

    The story starts with a train robbery, led by the characters played by Bronson and Delon. The train is carrying the Japanese ambassador to the U. S. and the gang steals a sword meant to be a gift to the President. Mifune plays a samurai who, out of duty and honour, sets out to recover the sword while Bronson’s character goes along with the intention of getting the loot from the robbery.

    The movie has most of the elements of a typical western, but the novelty of the plot makes it worth watching. Just don’t expect anything like the 1970s TV series Kung Fu.

    This film is also a reunion, of sorts, for Young, Andress, and Dawson. Terence Young directed Ursula Andress and Anthony Dawson in Dr. No. Also, it wouldn’t be the last time that Mifune and Jarre crossed paths. Nearly a decade later, Mifune was Lord Toronaga in the magnificent TV mini-series Shogun with the music written by Jarre.

    1. “magnificent TV mini-series Shogun ”

      Yes, absolutely magnificent. Brilliant.

      1. And here’s the theme that opened each episode:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56FK7m8V38g

        Maurice Jarre was a well-known film music composer, with his credits including Lawrence of Arabia and The Professionals. Because of that, there were some misgivings about choosing him to write the score for a series set in Japan. As you can hear, Jarre incorporated elements of both Japanese and European music.

        1. Now that I mentioned the movie, here’s The Professionals:

          https://odysee.com/@ClassicMovies:f/The-Professionals-1966:3

          The title characters are played by Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode. They’re hired by a railway moneybags (Ralph Bellamy) to bring back his wife (played by Claudia Cardinale) who was kidnapped by a Mexican bandit (Jack Palance).

          It’s directed by Richard Brooks. Brooks was one of the writers for Crossfire, with Ryan in the cast. He also directed Lancaster in Elmer Gantry in the title role, which resulted in him winning a Best Actor Oscar.

          I liked this one enough to add a DVD copy in my personal collection.

          1. I liked Burt in that railroad train flick where he was the engineer that continually sabotaged his own train against the Nazis trying to ship out looted artwork from France.

        2. Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean’s films from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984). He was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three in the Best Original Score category for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by Lean.

          He is also the father of Jean Michel Jarre, Pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, From his marriage in the 1940s, to Francette Pejot, a French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor.

          1. He didn’t restrict himself to a specific musical style. Here’s part of one of my favourite Jarre scores, the opening theme from Witness:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X94XhXRzU5A

            It works well with how director Peter Weir set up that scene with the Amish coming up over the crest of the hill on foot.

    2. Also, I agree with you on Red Sun, a great film. Bronson and Mifune were perfectly cast.

    3. Speaking of westerns with a twist, have you seen Lone Wolf McQuade? A defacto Western set in the 80s that in a round about way gave birth to Walker Texas Ranger series.

      1. Not yet. It doesn’t appear to be available on either YouTube or Odysee.

    2. Your pedo bro’s f’d up.
      They killed their own and everyone knows it.
      Your penis puppet will have to be watching his back from now on.

      1. I guess you didn’t read the thread. Only a GMLRS could reach that target, and if it did there would’ve been much more damage plus a crater.

        1. You’re guessing wrong. It is not interested in facts, it is mindlessly regurgitating Kremlin propaganda, such is its programing.

    1. That was awesome. But never any black holes. Where are the black holes?

      1. Steve

        Seems to me one will never “see” a black hole…the gravity is such that nothing…including light can escspe..?

        1. Black holes can be found from indirect evidence. Often, material being ingested can be seen from outside the event horizon. Also, they emit x-rays when that material is heated as it does in.

        2. You can see theblarge scale effects of gravity. This is how spiral galaxies are held together.

          You cam also see smaller scale gravitational effects. Accretion disks which is material in a degrading orbit that is superheated due to friction.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk

          Gravitational lensing is when light is bent by the gravitational pull of an object.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

          Dark matter is similar. We can see the effects of its mass, but it has no interaction with photons.

      2. There’s an SMB right in the middle of every spiral galaxy including that one. How do you think they are held together?

  10. At the rate the Ukrainians are claiming Russian casualties and the rate the Russians are claiming Ukrainian soldiers killed, before the war is over in November we will have seen 110% of Ukrainian soldiers killed and 140% of Russian soldiers dead. Oh, and zero American soldiers.

  13. Can pass around the hat and collect funds to send AllanS and Colonialista to the Ukraine where they can put their armchair general brilliance to good use and perhaps get castrated by Russians? Or are they too chicken to put their money where their loud mouths are? Yeah, internet warriors are invariably chicken.

    1. UnMe – violence is never the answer. Except in self defence and even then some folks, like Jesus, feel that it is not justified. I hope they settle their differences through campaign contributions…

    2. You must be upset that the war has entered the inflection point. Russia has lost the initiative.

    3. This is about as dumb as regular UnMe so points for that Angel/ray/Colonialidiot/doug/default/Ahmed.

      Anyone with a functioning braincell (that excludes you) realizes that your argument is about as valid a “why don’t you join Wagner Group”? Also, your approval of torture of prisoners has been noted. Typical Siberian.

      But since we’re collecting for Ukraine, I recommend this charity to which I have donated already (so yes, I put my money where my mouth is, of course that is not what you mean but that is a separate matter pertaining to your limitations): https://pomagam.pl/p7wfkm# (English version below) a worthy cause as Warmates have proven very successful at making Siberians good.

  14. I have a lot of time for Bjorn Lomborg but I disagree with him on this one (happenings in Sri Lanka).

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/29/bjorn-lomborg-on-sri-lanka-via-twitter/

    “President very clear that he wanted to get rid of synthetic fertilizers for health reasons, not to save money”.

    It now seems clear that Sri Lanka was running out of money by 2021 and simply could not afford to import fertilizer and subsidize its sale to farmers at up to 88%. The economy collapsed as a result. Yes, he used the organic angle, but deep down it was about money – that is, not having any. The short-lived Sri Lanka miracle was built on a lie of borrowed money. The economy is in ruins and they owe an enormous amount of money.

    1. I think I might have to disagree with Steve from Rockwood on this one.

      1. My point was this problem was a long time in the making and didn’t start just after the fertilizer ban went into effect. They were on the verge of not being able to afford to buy the fertilizer anyway. The problem was going to happen regardless of what policy they adopted. My belief is they tried to hide their financial incompetence in green wrapping paper hoping to appeal to other like-minded countries for more financing. Certainly the Ukrainian war got in the way. But nobody has stepped up to help other than India which is giving them a very short life-line.

    2. Sorry for the long link but this is a good summary of the problem of the fertilizer subsidy in Sri Lanka, which started in 1962.

      https://www.ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/55709#:~:text=The%20Government%20of%20Sri%20Lanka%20has%20introduced%20a,implemented%20to%20promote%20rice%20cultivation%20in%20Sri%20Lanka.

      They ran out of runway then tried switching to Plan B and crashed into the forest. From the link the uni prof asks his/her students to offer up an alternative to the fertilizer subsidy, one that would have saved the Sri Lankan economy, prevented food shortages and kept the government in power.

      My answer would have been to phase out the subsidies over time (never letting them get so bad in the first place), starting with tea (a major export crop) and not initially with rice (to prevent food shortages). But governments simply cannot resist giving out money they do not have until they reach the point that literally no one in the world will lend to them anymore – not even China.

      1. What made that scene more realistic was that Harrison Ford was a skilled carpenter. Early in his career, he worked in construction in order to pay the bills between movie gigs.

  16. Here is a typical climate crisis story written by someone who hasn’t traveled beyond his parent’s basement.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-electric-vehicles-car-dependence-1.6534893

    Highlights all the problems (as he sees them – kids in the Congo mining cobalt, lithium polluting water, FN not supporting mining, cost of owning a vehicle, vehicle accidents and deaths etc) and then concludes we need more public transit.

    My favorite comment was “How about letting the Government stop running literally every aspect of our lives?” which was followed with the question “If they don’t, then who else should tell us what to do?” I wanted to scream “you, you stupid moron”. But I don’t comment on CBC.

  19. I like this quote from Milton Friedman:

    “Laws requiring people who ride motorcycles to wear helmets … is the best litmus paper to distinguish true believers in individualism … because the person riding the motorcycle is risking only his own life. He may be a fool to drive that motorcycle without a helmet, but part of freedom … is the freedom to be a fool.”

    1. Milton musta never rode a motorcycle.

      I’ve ridden extensively in the US. In some States riding without a helmet is legal. As soon as I arrive at one of their borders I remove my helmet. There are risks in life. You either accept them and live a little or live life on a flat line. I’ve been in a bike crash, a float plane wreck and have been bucked off a horse on more than one occasion. If you let the rules define you…

    2. The problem in Canada is that if the motorcyclist survives we all end up paying for their freedom via healthcare and long term disability. You are free to suffer the consequences of your actions. You are not free to impose those consequences onto the rest of us.

      This is a bigger discussion than the comments will allow but I hope you get my point.

      1. A surprising comment from someone on this site.

        You ever been to a rodeo? Watched a hockey game? People get injured doing all kinds of things. If we use your logic we may as well quit living. Lets let public health officials determine what we can and cannot do, and what we can and cannot eat. I can decide for myself if the risk is more than I want to take.

        1. That’s why I like this site, I get challenged. I have noticed that as long as I am respectful of people I disagree with they have (mostly) been respectful towards me.

          My question is how do we draw the line between personal choice community responsibility? You are correct in that I do not want to take away individual choice. The problem I am having is how to balance that with community responsibility. I have a right to partake in a high risk endeavour, however how do I balance that with risk of burdening my friends and family if something goes wrong?

          Hockey players wear protective equipment. Rodeo riders have a slew of people to cover them if something goes wrong. Efforts have been made to mitigate risk. As Milton said we have the freedom to be fools. Do we have the freedom to burden others with our foolishness? And more importantly, how do we know, in foresight, when we are being foolish?

          I am actually trying to sort this question out. I’m not sure where to take it from here in order to better understand the problem.

          1. There is no way to make your life risk free. You can be killed or badly injured on your way to work. You can be hit by an asteroid.

            I refuse to waste my life worrying about communal responsibilities. I’m a taxpayer the same as the next guy. You take this in the direction your heading and someone will be telling you what to do, when to do it and what to eat.

            It all boils down to personal responsibility.

  21. Newsweek – Joe Manchin Isn’t Sold on Supporting Biden in 2024
    “I don’t know who is going to be running. If Joe Biden runs again and he is the Democratic nominee, depending on who the Republican nominee is, we will just have to wait and see,” Manchin told former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on an episode of his new podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project.

    Cuomo was taken aback by Manchin’s comment on a second Biden term. The show’s host said he had never heard of a sitting senator suggest that a sitting president in his party does not have his automatic support.

    More surprises to come.

    https://www.newsweek.com/joe-manchin-isnt-sold-supporting-biden-2024-1728918?utm_source=STMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automatic&user_email_address=e3836bcf5cc417b5950c001fa12b87e2&utm_term=HeadlinesPM

  22. Serial looser Liz May is back! She is once again seeking the leadership of the green party. hahahaha

    1. And if the wind should die down, those ships could use their galley slaves.

  48. A family member, adult , 59y has contracted covid anybody know where to get ivermectin? No vacc shots.

    Thanks.

    1. Great question. Where can people (presumably Canadians) get Invermectin when needed, with our fascist government health authorities monitoring us and our doctors’ every move?

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation