Thursday [8 to 10]

10.  Another over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2021/09/its-coercion-which-is-thing.html

9.  Dropping support

... long before the use by date:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2021/09/dropping-support-long-before-use-by-date.html

[H/T haiku]

8.  Magpies, via haiku

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/23/bird_attacks_ground_google_wing_drones/

Some of Google parent company Alphabet's Wing delivery drones have been grounded by angry Australian birds.

As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and filmed by residents of Canberra, ravens have attacked at least one of Wing's drones during a delivery run. Canberra, Australia's capital city, is currently in COVID-caused lockdown. It's also coming into spring – a time when local birds become a menace in the leafy city. 

Magpies are a particular hazard because they swoop passers-by who they deem to be threateningly close to their nests and the eggs they contain. Being swooped is very little fun – magpies dive in, often from a blind spot, snapping their sharp beaks, and can return two or three times on a single run. Swooping is intimidating for walkers, and downright dangerous for cyclists.

I can add to that.  The first half of my life was spent here and in Oz.  In the Oz stints, I saw the magpie threat at first hand, to the point that once they decide to divebomb, teachers get the kids indoors asap - many was the time that crying children were running hell for leather from the playground towards the corridor - Alfred Hitchcock had nothing on these scenes.  There are, as mentioned above, seasons where this is particularly bad.

Thursday [1 to 7]

Morning all!

7.  MTG

It’s absolutely insane what the Democrats are doing in the House.

- Abortion up until birth

- Drafting our daughters

- And all the other leftist nonsense in the NDAA

https://www.oann.com/rep-greene-speaks-on-issues-on-capitol-hill-following-recess/

6.  Steve 

a.  Confirmed: Wuhan Scientists Planned to Release Coronaviruses Into Bat Caves 18 Months Before Pandemic 

Florida

The reason I'll not run tech journals on politics any further here is that their Woke/far left stance is Great Reset  Narrative wih sero qualifications, which is illustrated in the screenshot at the foot of this post.  I followed Arstechnica's link to TGBD, expecting to at least see it in full or at least in summary:

https://gbdeclaration.org/

It did not link to it, as I just have, it linked to another journo hit piece and that is all one gets. Shoddy journalism at its worst.

For a journo to also seriously quote the head of WHO or the FDA/CDC as authoritative, given all we have presented here on those bodies, plus the WEF, is trash journalism at best, criminal at worst.  Worse is that by trashing the signatories of the declaration, my one reservation being the name Gupta, they have aligned fully with The Great Reset which we are beset by and this site you are now on is having no truck with that, for reasons expressed countless times on these pages.

This is the third tech journal to act shoddily in the past few days - at least that I've commented on - they've aligned uncannily, complying with the narrative from world govt [UN] word for word ... and we state, on the strength of all our pieces here quoting medicos and developments of late, that we utterly reject their shtick.

This was part of the piece we're not running:

Hump Day [18 till close of play]

To the bitter end.

24.  Not sure which emotion is uppermost

… horror, anger, nausea?

https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/lab-grown-meat-to-hit-u-s-in-2022-backed-by-fda-usda-along-with-smarter-food-safety-blueprint-traceability/

In June 2021, it was announced that Future Meat Technologies was in the approval process with regulatory agencies of its production facility in multiple territories and plans to launch its products in the U.S. in 2022, as the “World’s first industrial cultured meat facility,” but their are several others. It is an Israeli start-up founded by Rom Kshuk and Chief Scientific Officer Yaakov Nahmias, with the ability to produce 1100 lbs of meat a day initially, and is currently seeking out locations in the U.S. to expand its facilities. They produce “cultured” chicken, pork, and lamb, with beef coming just around the corner.

The House by the River

There are so many short statements about this evening's film brought to you by AK Haart that the only way I can see is to quote snippets across watcher reviews from IMDb and hope it conveys what's handy to know before even watching.

This film is gothic in setting and mood, the style basically noir, the cinematography, esp. at the start, is great, the direction is very Fritz Lang, it employs techniques such as chiaroscuro:

Take it away, lads

Look, I still love the gals, ok?  It's just that I do think I should also be supporting the boys a bit better:

https://youtu.be/vgIUsl-kdZ4