by Didact | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In China, at least, all he has to do is to look at your mobile phone’s data. And, yes, in case you are wondering – yes, the ChiComs are a particularly impressive kind of high-tech evil: I am in the middle of re-reading 1984, for the first time since high...
by Didact | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
For those of you who are not familiar with the current (appalling) state of television over in PommieBastardLand, one of the highest-rated and most-watched TV shows – if not the most-watched – is a rather sordid train-smash of a show called Love...
by Didact | Jun 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
The F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano is sort of like a slow-motion car crash: utterly horrifying as a whole, oddly fascinating in its little details, and you cannot stop yourself from staring at the awful spectacle of its self-inflicted demise, even though you know...
by Didact | Jun 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
There is this old joke about the American space program, which people usually bring up around (!@#$%^&*) Tax Day, that goes something like this: When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero...
by Didact | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
No matter how much your day sucks, just remember – you might be going on a caravan holiday with these guys: Of course, if you are actually a caravan… well, sorry dude, you’re boned. I mean, I don’t know how you’re reading this if...
by Didact | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
June 6th, 1944. It’s hard to believe that it has been 75 years since over a million men landed on the shores of Normandy to begin an all-out Western assault on Nazi Germany. I remember quite vividly the pictures and videos being shown on CNN –...
by Didact | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here is a rather interesting video asking why it is that the Russians don’t use aircraft that take off and land vertically – and it’s not because they didn’t try the concept: People who like the idea of V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take Off and...
by Didact | May 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
The great philospoher and wise man Jeremy Clarkson has often stated, and written, that cyclists and bikers should simply work harder and buy a car. Judging by what bicycles have done to China – and Vietnam, and Indonesia, and the inner cities of London and New...
by Didact | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
All of that nonsense about “MUH RUSSIA!!!” really was a lot of hooey. And, by the way, if you really want to startle a beautiful Russian girl on a date, tell her that something is in fact a bunch of hooey. The reason for this is that...
by Didact | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
The final episode of Game of Thrones was, if anything, even more of a disaster than any of us could have imagined: A quick recap: Daenerys took her turn to tyranny to its natural conclusion, announcing a world-wide campaign against, well, tyranny. Tyrion mourned...
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