History, Politics And Current Affairs

Someone was trying really hard not to get that open billet in a Luftwaffe Felddivision somewhere outside Minsk . . . and got an express ticket there instead.

Only reason to watch the Super Bowl anymore is if it's your team playing, and for the commercials... which isn't as important anymore due to half of them being put on YT the day before. It’s a social occasion. The question really is whether the NFL is trying for a culturally broad-based appeal to m...

likely a staged ragebait/clickbait/hoax account. But you never quite know with the low IQ jerks around these days. This particular piece may be a hoax, but we have enough examples of people who get off on destroying other people’s stuff for the lolz, police and legal system that has their hands tie...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:48 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:01 pm

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:17 pm

"Sir, it wasn't my fault - he had the big 48 piece box of Crayolas!!"

Mike

“The GREEN ones, sir!”

I hear those improve your night vision.

I thought it was the orange ones, because they look like carrots.

General Dynamics Unveils AD(X) VLS-Reloading Destroyer Tender https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/01/general-dynamics-unveils-adx-vls-reloading-destroyer-tender/ https://i.postimg.cc/NjdZm8p6/IMG-5670-scaled-jpg.webp General Dynamics NASSCO is looking to U.S. Navy for interest in new VLS relo...

Pancreatic cancer is rough because we don’t have good screening tests like we do for breast cancer, colon cancer or prostate cancer. So it’s sadly often diagnosed in the metastatic phase. The good news is that we are getting better at fighting cancer and beating it every day, even when it has metast...

The clip with Lura Thok shooting a cadet with a phaser set on “transport” (useful feature that is) is hilarious but also questionable teaching. But she absolutely has the Klingon cadence down. Concur on the questionable logic of two separate academies training future officers in entirely different c...

Legislators are generally worse than useless in an emergency because there’s jack shit they need to do thanks to the Stafford Act and state equivalents, but politics demands they “look involved,” so some poor bastard gets pulled off the line to babysit them. If one were actually needed, the worst p...

Legislators are generally worse than useless in an emergency because there’s jack shit they need to do thanks to the Stafford Act and state equivalents, but politics demands they “look involved,” so some poor bastard gets pulled off the line to babysit them. If one were actually needed, the worst pl...

On episode 3. I think the only enjoyable training montage I've ever seen was Full metal jacket, every other one I've seen is tedious and this is no exception. Modern expressions and slang are jarring, hope they dial that back. Can't work myself up either way on this. Hopefully we can start moving f...

I enjoyed it. Well see how this goes. TNG was borderline unwatchable at first and got better, same with Picard. Aye, that’s pretty common for Trek. However, we’re not in the same media world where you get time to evolve and improve. We’re in a world of shorter attention spans, nigh infinite choices...

Episode 2 was better, IMVHO. I do like Holly Hunter. Having her be a half-Lanthanite is clever. Gina Yashere is brilliant as Cadet Master Lura Thok. It’s always a pleasure to see Robert Picardo’s Doctor. I thought that Paul Giamatti played a very good villain, who has a genuine and justified beef w...

Saw this video floating around and it’s hilarious: https://youtu.be/oJpvPwoplAE I have not been able to verify the veracity of the video, but I honestly don’t want to. Sadly, there has not been a submarine named JELLYFISH to commemorate the brave service performed by LAFTFLEET jellyfish to protect A...

I think The Board is more rectangular than cube shaped. I reread We Have Engaged the Borg before diving into Jayce’s Fighting Ships, profiling the ships that fought the first Borg invasion. I knew the punches that were coming on reread, so some of the raw emotional impact was lessened.l, but there a...

Well episode 1 is available, (on youtube for free surprisingly). Honestly I find it...meh. At least they set it in the future so hopefully it wont cause tons of continuity snafu. Not as bad as I feared, but being meh is arguably worse then being horrible from a entertainment perspective. You’re app...

I’ve noticed that a lot of delivery drivers have developed the habit of simply leaving stuff on our doorstep. Without so much as knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell. As we’re right on the street that’s not great. Sometimes we only realise that there has been a delivery when checking our em...

Yes, that's like the Hummer III. Tough on the outside, standard chassis and mechanicals on the inside. What I think is more likely to be the Official TBO tank: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg/1280px-Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg Is that the flamethr...

Needs more guns :p

If you’re interested in highway renumbering nerdery, This Old Road YouTube channel has a good series on California’s Great Renumbering in 1964, and the death of Route 66 in CA.

I have wondered if the US actually did detect a powerful storm incoming and we had say 6-hours of warning could we temporarily shutdown the US power grid to prevent catastrophic damage to that grid? Or would the powers in charge spend all that time arguing about who was in charge and what to do? ye...