History, Politics And Current Affairs

rather than a local event where you get candy from your neighbors or meet the neighborhood kids. It’s disappointing. I wonder too how much is changing neighborhood demographics. When I was growing up, all but three or four of the houses on our street had kids and the same held for the rest of the s...

I think over the last several years there's been a shift towards organized events ("trunk or treat", school/community fall fest, etc), whether for safety and/or convenience reasons. I think our son went to four such events in the two weeks leading up to Halloween and could have gone to mor...

We only had one group of visitors as well, the family across the street with two young kids. I guess our part of the neighborhood (which we just moved into in January) is rather quiet. Our son did one round in his grandparents' neighborhood with his little cousins, then rode with his friend's family...

Babylon 5 had a much greater impact than you might imagine. In and of itself it never became mainstream, but it was really the first show on American TV to actually have a continuing storyline where things didn't simply reset at the end of virtually every episode. Didn't know that, interesting! IMH...

I got to hear Barnaby present at Oshkosh one year and talked to him a bit afterwards. He's one of those rare folks who's incredibly smart and can also present it well and still come across as an ordinary person.

He also occasionally participates in another forum I'm active on.

The flying model is supposed to be available "by invitation only", won't be street legal, and most assuredly has a price tag of "if you have to ask..." It's almost certainly a pure vanity project. But cool tech nonetheless... This is supposedly also the last manually driveable ne...

Why the facepalm? I have concerns about so much being placed in one basket, though of course with only three major tactical airframe OEMs left in defense it's not like you have a lot of options :roll: . Boeing's track record as of late has me concerned too--see KC-46, T-7, and MQ-25--whereas N-G se...

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4614331/department-of-war-and-us-navy-award-contract-for-fa-xx-program/ Today, the Department of War announces a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy to Boeing for the Sixth-Generation F/A-XX Strike Fighter under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD)...

We saw Collective Soul in concert a couple weeks ago (side note, my wife is awesome and got the tickets for my birthday). They started the show with the video of Dolly's cover of Shine , which I never knew she did till they played the video. It was a very classy tribute, and an awesome show overall,...

Shut OpenAI down. They have repeatedly shown they cannot be trusted with the dangerous technology they are working on. End of discussion. Indeed. There was an internet joke going around a couple years ago about them hiring a "Killswitch Engineer". Maybe they should have actually made it a...

4E9EFC34-B792-4CCD-8281-E030DD9ED8E0.jpeg Life is imitating art…. Yeah. Not so funny today, in light of one of the other threads here :| We'll wake up one day and everything connected to the Internet will be subsumed. I used to think I'd never be able to retire due to investing ineptitude. Then I t...

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 4:25 pm Seeing Optimus die as a kid in the Transformers movie was very traumatic, it was the red wedding for a entire generation of 10 year olds.

I think I was just a bit too young for that one; saw the cartoon series but I don't think I ever saw the movie.

I gotta admit, I agree with renaming the CNV from doris miller. We should stick with the traditional CV names, 100%. I also agree that Miller deserves a Burke. I think renaming the Doris Miller is perhaps one of the more asinine ideas out there. While I would prefer to see them go back to tradition...

Anyone familiar with air dropping have an idea what went wrong with this one? Belushi TD Parachute wasn't attached. This reminds me of a few years back when three HMMVs dropped in Germany from sabotage. https://youtu.be/SN6LL-evvfU?si=ZAMbh5Zt2bCx6_4m That's the same video I thought of. I know it w...

We're sitting in a room full of gasoline soaked rags and playing with matches, thinking "ooooh, look at the pretty light!" --- I was just talking this morning with a friend about why I don't think I'll ever be able to retire. But now my new theory is that before I even get to that point, s...

I'm getting the check and a "select all images" occasionally. Noticed I've started getting the checks on several forums lately (especially NSF).

Demon Lord Razgriz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:34 pm We're barreling towards Armageddon, and no one in power, left or right, wants to stop it cause they want that $$$...

"We can stop whenever we want!"

I know I've read it (it's been a while), but my brain keeps conflating Neuromancer and Snow Crash

Maybe if I ever had time to watch stuff it might be worth a subscription for a little while...

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:45 pm the price of cinema tickets, inspired by $60 ($40) Imax tickets.

And that is one of the (many) reasons I don't go to the movies any more.

Once again I'm reminded of our own Nik's story...