More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Conservative Twitter alternative Parler gets acquired. Will it remain the same, better, or has its window passed?

-  Leaked documents show at least 4 more Chinese spy balloons in recent months. The country is in the very best of hands.

- FDA purges NMN from list of supplements under rationale that it is being investigated as a drug. Reminder that supplements are big business and perhaps nothing bigger on horizon than NAD+ and NMN.

- 10 awful words and the people they were named after

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting

-  VDH: Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke

- Right-leaning social media platform gets 1.5 million users in just 11 days. Intrigued by the proposed "tip" function. Also Parler seems to be rising from the ashes after the attempts by Big Tech to kill it.

- One does have to wonder if White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is really running things.

- This is an important story that isn't going away. Although to be honest - I was distracted by the vaccinated Ted Cruz wearing a mask. What's up with that?

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

How great would it be if you took all the great "Hail Mary" passes in football history (Stabauch, Flutie, etc.) and set them to the music of Ave Maria?... In January of 1835 the U.S. national debt was reduced to $0 for the first and only time in history (file this under things that will never happen again)... Interesting look at what went wrong with Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles. Was amused by this line in the article, "When you believe you've found the Great White of team sports - an elite quarterback - you hold on for dear life and you feed the beast." Even the moderately literate get that "Great White" is a Moby Dick reference but I chuckle knowing many out there will wrongly read it as some sort of MAGA dog-whistle or even sillier as some kind of reference to the movie JAWS... Has anyone asked Joe Biden if he plans to move the US Embassy out of Jerusalem? I know Biden has only been asked softballs but I'd be really curious to hear his response to this question... Need a ruling on this - the way Amazon, Apple, and Google trampled Parler would that have been considered a violation of Net Neutrality if Net Neutrality was the law of the land? If not - what's the good of Net Neutrality?... 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Two thoughts come together. In the old days a person's last name was often also their occupation - so someone named Smith was most likely a blacksmith. Also in the old days the term "roger" meant to have sex with usually in a rough manner. Which now begs the question - what exactly were Aaron Rodgers fore-bearers known for?... Speaking of Aaron Rodgers - here's an interesting thought - why not Aaron Rodgers as permanent host of Jeopardy!... Who could have foreseen that "Fight the Power!" would become a Republican rallying cry?...  PC Magazine reports download speeds of 79.5 Mbps for Starlink service which is very good but comes with two big caveats, as far as I'm concerned. First that's on a mostly unused shared network. Once the network is loaded with subscribers the download speeds most likely will be greatly reduced in speed tests. Second the advertised upload speeds is just 20-25 Mbps which is much slower than a comparable symmetrical fiber connection...   Funny, sad and maddening all at the same time.... Sexual Anorexia would be a great name for a band. Dry Spell could be their opening act... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting - Sci-Hub is now on the "uncensorable web." (HT Stephen Landry who now has a blog) 

- This was an epic troll of Twitter by Gab

- What Big Tech did to Parler should bother you. It should bother you very much. 

- This has all the makings of a modern-day Frankenstein-like horror story.

- Be curious how James Harden reacts when he gets his first tax bill.The trade to Brooklyn will cost him about $14 million in additional taxes. 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Thinking of forming a social media company where people can communicate with messages of up to 240 characters. It will be a politically neutral platform where only the true bad actors like Holocaust deniers, the KKK and organizations connected to the State Department list of terrorist organizations are banned. It would be managed with a very light touch. I'd call this new service "Twiller" and each message would be a "Twill"... Funny how you never hear Eric Mangini's name floated in connection with any NFL head coaching jobs. He's only 49-years old but he screwed the pooch so bad with the Jets his name is now toxic... One of those stories that sound too good to be true but actually is. In his 20's Elon Musk went to Russia to look at buying some retired ICBM's as space transports but was spat upon by the Russian Chief Rocket Designer. Elon didn't get mad- he got even by building SpaceX...  First they came for the Parler app -how long before they come for the Chick Filet app? (Only kind of joking.)...