Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was semi-productive and relaxing. Also I might’ve spent $300 at Total Wine. [shrug emoji]
Ukraine updates:
Approval for Biden Ukraine aid request likely after Pelosi Kyiv visit, McCaul says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/01/biden-request-33bn-ukraine-aid-michael-mccaul-republican
How the ‘jack-in-the-box’ flaw dooms some Russian tanks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/russian-tank-turret-blast-jack-in-the-box/?itid=hp-top-table-main
‘Safe-passage operation’ evacuates 100 people from besieged Mariupol steelworks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/01/civilians-mariupol-steelworks-azovstal-ukraine-nancy-pelosi-kyiv-visit
What a hack.
Dr Oz dropped by Columbia amid pro-Trump Republican Senate run – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/01/dr-oz-dropped-by-columbia-amid-pro-trump-republican-senate-run-report
Sprots!
NFL draft 2022 winners and losers: surprisingly competent Jets and a Patriots slip
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/01/nfl-draft-2022-winners-and-losers-surprisingly-competent-jets-and-a-rare-patriots-slip
Stonks!
Stock futures are flat after the Nasdaq posts worst month since 2008
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/01/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Today’s turtle content:
#RIP
Have a great day!
Some? The Russians have their entire tank force based on the T-72 tank which places the ammo in a ring around the turret which makes for easy access, but deadly if it gets hit in the turret. US Tanks of WW2 had similar issues, but they resigned the ammo magazine so that it is hidden behind blast doors to prevent that from happening.
Anti tank missiles like Javelin and NLAW are designed for top attack of the turret which has the weakest armor so most hits on the top of the turret are fatal (for the tank and crew.)
This is why the Russians welded cages on top of the turrets, but it doesn’t work. US shouldn’t laugh as they did the same thing in Vietnam (using chicken wire fences) to prematurely detonate RPGs.
Similar problem the Brits had in WW1 when in the name of efficiency kept large amounts of ready ammo/propellant in the turrets, refused to keep fire doors closed and didn’t design shunts in passageways leading from the magazine. This lead to the disaster at the Battle of Jutland where three battlecruisers were lost when the Germans hit their turrets starting flash cordite fires that quickly spread right into the magazines.
Their squadron commander remarked “There is something bloody wrong with our ships today.”
Similar to the fate of the HMS Hood in WW2 when the Bismark did the same damn thing.
My father didn’t have a radio in his truck when we were young, he sung songs, this was one of them….
Columbia should have dropped Oz since he started pushing quack cures like his green coffee bean extract.
Has Oprah ever addressed releasing him and Phil onto society?
No, and I’ve read several articles lately calling on her to do so. This is one of them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/boston-doctor-calls-oprah-attempt-stop-dr-ozs-damage-2022-4?amp
Yeah. I feel like she owes us reparations.
I saw a tiktok where they said we’ll bever get rid of Rachel Ray because she’s one of Oprah’s horcruxes like Voldemort has in Harry Potter:
Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Gail, Rachel Ray, and a few others.
Oprah’s horcruxes *snort*
Free speech absolutist.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/2/2094944/-Cartoon-The-absolutist
Related: Turn over a rock and see what crawls out.
‘I’m back’: Mike Lindell defies lifetime ban and returns to Twitter with bizarre video
Thanks, Elon. All the vermin are crawling back to Twitter.
I thought that deal fell through?
I’m not sure where it stands. I haven’t dug into the status because that stuff can be really fluid and honestly, the thought of Trump surging back into daily discourse depresses the shit out of me. But I read an article that said that all of the nasty right-wing trolls heard about Musk taking over and stampeded back to Twitter, radically increasing the overall shitposting quota. At the same time, left-leaning posters are losing followers. This isn’t the article I saw, but it says the same thing:
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-trolls/
Huge uptake in right wing trolls. I mean Musk himself is pretty much the King of RW Trolls – so what did everyone expect.
Aaaaannnnd . . . it’s suspended.
Axios and I have different definitions of “scoop.” Mine does not include “things that were widely reported at the time.”
Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters
Right, for most of the DC press corps things that are true and known and can be reported aren’t news, what matters is what someone says even when it’s false. Especially when it’s false.
So getting out the open complicity of Republicans and Putin isn’t a story — but whitewashing whatever baseless lies they tell is a story. The fact that Esper said this is treated as news, but not the thing itself. Or for that matter, the eagerness of the DC press to cover things up isn’t news. But it’s treated as a scandal when someone does journalism that violates the unwritten rules of the club.
Want to be a vegetarian? This can help!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/tick-bite-meat-allergy-spreading-spd
Ticks and more importantly, Lyme disease is a big issue up here and only getting worse with weak winters.
One of my close friends has that allergy now. Makes travel difficult since there’s sometimes limited food options or cross contamination.
That turtle content needs some commentary from @bryanlsplinter. Are they fighting-courting-other?
I thought so!
I believe they are courting. Sheldon flaps his flippers at us when he wants attention, so I think the flapping turtle is trying to impress a mate. They also flap when they’re begging … which tracks, when you think about it, doesn’t it? Male turtles are always smaller than females, so it seems likely he’s trying to get her attention.
Wildfire fun continues.
Thousands flee New Mexico wildfire as blaze breaches containment lines