MEME: RKBA is not about defending against deer

Sunday, August 10, 2025

 

Robert W Malone MD from “Who is Robert Malone”

Sunday Strip: If You are Going to Think…

Think big.

Robert W Malone MD, MS

Aug 10

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ENGINEERING: China has a two-ton electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft; what does the USA have?

Sunday, August 10, 2025

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/china-evtol-offshore-rig-delivery

World’s first two-ton electric cargo aircraft cuts 10-hour trip to under 1 hour

  • This Chinese heavy-lift drone is a game changer for offshore missions.

Updated: Aug 04, 2025 08:42 AM EST

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China has completed what it calls the world’s first offshore oil-platform cargo mission by a two-ton electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

The unmanned V2000CG CarryAll took off from the coastal city of Shenzhen on Sunday, carried fresh fruit and emergency medical supplies across open water for 58 minutes, and touched down 150 kilometers (about 93 miles) away on a China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) platform.

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From ten-hour boat runs to one-hour drone hops

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Taken together, the advances point to a logistics sector on the verge of rapid change. Long-haul trucking and maritime shuttles remain indispensable for bulk freight, but heavy-lift eVTOLs offer a new middle ground. They are faster than ships, cheaper and cleaner than helicopters, and can reach small landing pads or parking-lot “vertiports” that fixed-wing aircraft cannot.

The Shenzhen-to-rig mission is expected to become regular sorties carrying maintenance parts, food, and medical kits. At the same time, the sale of the first fully certified V2000CG CarryAll signals the beginning of commercial deployment for large-scale eVTOL operations in real-world logistics environments.

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I’ve often thought that the Gooferment, private industry, or some tech mogul could spark innovation here in the USA by offering something like “Nobel Prizes” for a SPIRO (Specific, Performance or results, Involvement or support, Realistic, Observable) achievement.

I’m not sure that the dollar amount would be as motivating as the prestige of winning it.

Someone should give DJT4547 a list of what would be EPIC HEROIC accomplishments.  Like the various awards that are given out, for BEST of something.

“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”” — RFK

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country” — John F. Kennedy inaugural address

Use the “bully pulpit” to inspire action.

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NEWJERSEY: Don’t make NJ a “two tier” society where politicians have “rights” the ordinary citizen does NOT have

Saturday, August 9, 2025

https://www.gunowners.org/nj08012025/

NJ: Gun rights for me, but not for thee!
Written by Grant Clarkson Published: 02 August 2025

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Under this bill (A 5958) elected officials and their chiefs of staff would be allowed to carry handguns without a permit, possess rifles and shotguns without a Firearms Purchaser ID, and transport these firearms without fear of persecution, all of which are illegal for me as a law-abiding New Jersey resident!

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As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I don’t want you to create a “two tier” society where politicians have “rights” that “We, The Sheeple” don’t have.  This is yet another step towards creating the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.  

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: “Civil society” isn’t getting any more “civilized”!

Friday, August 8, 2025

https://www.lifenews.com/2025/07/21/canada-plans-to-euthanize-15-million-people-in-the-next-20-years/

Canada Plans to Euthanize 15 Million People in the Next 20 Years
International | Bobby Schindler | Jul 21, 2025 | 9:44AM | Ottawa, Canada 

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In a recent video, Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian combat veteran, host of The Kelsi Sheren Perspective, and an outspoken opponent of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) policies, shared how Canada’s government-controlled healthcare system plans to euthanize an estimated 15 million Canadians between 2027 and 2047, a staggering figure justified under the pretext of cost savings.

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What often goes unnoticed, however, is that existing U.S. healthcare policies are already enabling the quiet killing of vulnerable Americans – not through legalized suicide, but through hospital protocols and policies that deny care, withdraw treatment, or subtly hasten death.

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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I am not surprised that a “culture of death” has overwhelmed the morality of “We, The Sheeple”.  Abortion has desensitized us to mass murder.  The worst serial killer, school shooter, or crazy killer nurse can not come near the body count of today’s politicians and bureaucrats. Recently, Secretary RFK jr has comet against organ donations from living donors that will kill the “donor”.  To me, that’s just murder.

Unless “We, The Sheeple” react strongly and punish the “enablers” of these horrific killings, it’s only going to get worse.  Already, people are revoking the organ donor choice on their driver’s license (another insult to liberty).  And is anyone surprised?

The Catholic Church has completely lost its “moral authority” by pedophilia, financial mismanagement, liberal “theology”, “climate change”, illegal immigration, and a vast number of “political issues”.  

Shame is, “We, The Sheeple” could use a beacon of “moral authority” today!

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SURVIVAL: A Provoked Attack

Thursday, August 7, 2025

A Provoked Attack:

[The reasons don’t seem unclear to me.]

Today, friend-of-the-site Chris D. passed along with the latest in fucking around and finding out. Hunter Asher Watkins was fatally gored by a South African buffalo he had been hunting.

Local residents call the buffalo species found in the area, Cape buffalo, the “Black Death” because to their reputation for causing approximately 200 deaths annually and for claiming more game hunters’ lives than lions, rhinos or crocodiles.

Perhaps folks should consider just leaving the buffalo alone.

Link: https://www.irishstar.com/news/millionaire-big-game-hunter-gored-35684171

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What a great idea.  Only kill what you can eat or “create” (impossible).

And while we are at it, let’s remind the Yellowstone tourists, and others, to leave the “fluffy cows” alone too.  They are bigger, faster, and more irratible than the worst “Karen” you know.

Stop nominating yourself for a  “Darwin award”.  You’re ineligible unless your over 18 and still reproducing.

Argh!

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SURVIVAL: Thinking about a fall in the shower at home; not every survival tip is about surviving in the wilderness

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Just got out of the shower and while I was in there, I thought what if I fell.

Normally, I always have my iwatch on but not in the shower. Often, I’m not alone at home but today I am alone and no one is expected back until 6 or 7pm.

So, if you don’t mind, when I’m showering and alone in the house, I’ll text a “safety buddy” that I’m going in and coming out.

Seems like a rare occurrence, but but then I think of my summertime neighbor whose first husband died alone going into their basement when he slipped and fell.

Or, OTOH, I just won’t shower if alone in the house.

Or, to be really safe, just never shower again.

Laugh! Silly things I think about. 

YMMV

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PEACE: Was it “necessary”?

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

80th Anniversary of Hiroshima

Today marks 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The attack—the first military use of a nuclear bomb—precipitated the end of the US war with Japan and killed an estimated 140,000 people over several months (see photos).

On Aug. 6, 1945, US Col. Paul Tibbets flew a B-29 bomber from the island of Tinian to Hiroshima carrying a 9,700-pound uranium bomb nicknamed “Little Boy.” At about 8:15 am, the bomb detonated roughly 1,900 feet over the city center, sending surface temperatures above 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Then-President Harry Truman had agreed to bomb Hiroshima, which had a civilian population of 300,000 and about 43,000 soldiers, to convince Japan to surrender. See Tibbets’ reflections here (w/video). See survivors’ reflections here.

The US followed the Hiroshima bombing with an atomic bomb targeting Nagasaki three days later. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945. Learn more about the Manhattan Project via 1440 Topics here.

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I remember the Christian Brothers discussing in class about the “Just War” doctrine and the use of Atomic Bombs.  Of course, I brought the topic home.  Strangely, my war time uncles, both vets and essential civilian workers, were quiet or muted about how necessary it was, but my aunts were totally fine with it.  Freshly, “educated” by the “Just War” doctrine, I asked “what about the children?”.  That ended the topic discussion.  I think forever.  Or, at least forever, in my presence.

I ask the same question now for Gaza.  As I did for Kuwait, Afghanistan, the Holocaust, Cambodia, … … essentially any time I hear about “fighting”.  Makes me sad to think of the children in all the war zones.  As well as living in poverty around the USA and the world.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”  ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

I wonder how many Einsteins, Pasteurs, Bannings, Mozarts, and DaVincis have died never getting to make their contributions to humanity.

Sigh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Now DROPBOX introducted the “dropbox dustbin”

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

https://www.androidauthority.com/dropbox-password-manager-discontinued-3582689/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyauthority&utm_term=Daily%20Authority

Dropbox says it’s time to find a new password manager as it prepares to shut down service

  • Time to say goodbye to Dropbox Passwords.

By Ryan McNeal 21 hours ago
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-07-31>>

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  •     Dropbox Passwords users will no longer be able to add new passwords on August 28, 2025.
  •     The mobile app is scheduled to stop working on September 11, 2025.
  •     The password manager will be fully discontinued on October 28, 2025.

Dropbox Passwords users will soon have to find a new password manager to store their passwords, usernames, and other sensitive data. The company will be shutting down the service in the next couple of months.

Dropbox has announced that it is preparing to sunset its password manager. According to a help center document, the decision was made so that the company can “focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” The full service is scheduled to be discontinued on October 28, 2025, but the shutdown will be carried out in phases.

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“Sunsetting”?  Argh!  Call it what it is “shrinkflation”.

Why they ever pursued it is beyond me.  

And, they don’t suggest BITWARDEN which is basically free.

Is OnePassword or Lastpass an affiliate link?

Argh!

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MEME: GOVERNMENT & MEDIA RIDICULE

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

MY FAVORITE (if this is TL;DR)

 

 

 

 

 

GOVERNMENT & MEDIA RIDICULE:

 


DISCOURAGING: Whistle pet trackers to IoT graveyard

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/acquisition-sends-thousands-of-whistle-pet-trackers-to-iot-graveyard/

Acquisition sends thousands of Whistle pet trackers to IoT graveyard

  • Whistle pet monitors will stop working on August 31.

Scharon Harding – Jul 29, 2025 1:38 PM |

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Whistle pet trackers are headed to the Internet of Things (IoT) graveyard. After releasing its first product in 2013, the Seattle-based Whistle has just been acquired by a competitor that has decided to brick all of Whistle’s smart GPS and activity monitors.

Tractive, an Austrian company that has also been selling Internet-connected GPS trackers for pets since 2013, on Monday announced its acquisition of Whistle from Mars Petcare, as spotted by The Verge. Mars Petcare is the pet food subsidiary of Mars Inc (which also makes candies like M&M’s), and it acquired Whistle in 2016 for $117 million.

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Where is the “consumer protection”?  I won’t be buying M&M’s anytime soon.  This is a complete betrayal of loyal customers.  

Wonder if we will see any litigation as a result? 

Anyone wonder what the Gooferment at any level is stepping up to enforce Customer’s interests?

If not, why are they there?

Argh!

Google Graveyard, AT&T Ashcan, Amazon depreciation, … … or <synonym for the act of procreation> you! … … shrinkflation.

As they say on Wall Street, there is always a “counter party risk”.  Or in layman’s terms: “Life time guarantee  —  but whose lifetime?”

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