Give Hydra rocket pods to Ukraine for use as mobile artillery

It would fill the same role as M73 rockets during WW2.

Sherman Rocket Tank : Best Documentary 2017

Hydra 70 - Wikipedia

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The Hydra 70 rocket is an American made 2.75-inch (70 mm) diameter fin-stabilized unguided rocket used primarily in the air-to-ground role. It can be equipped with a variety of warheads, and in more recent versions, guidance systems for point attacks. The Hydra is widely used by US and allied forces, competing with the Canadian CRV7, with which it is physically interchangeable.

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Bolt that on trucks and fire away. Shoot and scoot. Way better than this monstrosity:

ARCHER Shoot and Scoot

killer robot music

Fulgore was my brother's favorite character in Killer Instinct. I preferred Spinal. In Mortal Kombat, I preferred Liu Kang as he could counter Scorpion's "get over here!" move with crouching fireball and bicycle kicks. 

Killer Instinct S1 OST - Type-03 (Fulgore's Theme)

Terminator will always be THE killer robot. Screw you, Asimov. 

The Terminator Opening Title Sequence

Laws of Robotics are impossible:

Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile

Liu Kang bicycle kicks sound like the 3 Stooges whoop:

Liu Kang All Bicycle Kicks (MK2-MK9)

Best of Curly woob woob woob

artillery - king of battle & god of war

Cannons are old-fashioned, but not quite obsolete. Artillery shells travel faster than their sound. If you can hear it coming, it won't land near you. The one that will land near you'll only hear right before it hits. 

Moment A Russian Shell Lands Next To An RFE/RL Crew In Ukraine

on shaving in the military

Shaved heads were standard in the Roman army and some others to prevent lice. Long beards can interfere with helmet chinstraps, so that was a reason to shave. Later, short mustaches were favored because anything else made it impossible to seal a gas mask. If you've ever wondered why Hitler had a mustache like that, it was from the gas mask he wore as a soldier in WW1. 

Sideburns were named after Union general Ambrose Burnside. Many other famous generals and presidents had facial hair including Lincoln, Grant, and Teddy Roosevelt. Burnside's facial hair would be a no-go in today's Army. 

I never liked shaving with a razor. It was one of the many nuisances I endured in the Army. Various exemptions are possible for medical and religious reasons. I knew one soldier who got a religious exemption for being a Norse pagan. I had a mustache for most of the time I was in the Army and I shaved my head with clippers once a month. 

If clippers are good enough for head shaving, they're good enough for face shaving, and such a shave will not cause any ingrown hairs or other medical issues. Half a millimeter of stubble is not going to affect the seal of a gas mask, and US soldiers have not faced poison gas in battle for over a century.

The fashion show aspects of the military get tiresome quickly. They rarely serve a practical purpose and get a disproportionate amount of attention. The same is true of physical fitness standards. 

 

I look forward to a day when practical considerations take precedence over personal preferences. 

heroes of science

I found a website years ago that ranked scientists according to the estimated lives their inventions and discoveries saved or enabled. Since I've been unable to relocate it, here is my own list. 

Agronomist Norman Borlaug is credited with saving a billion lives through his improved strains of cereal crops.

Karl Landsteiner gets credit for discovering blood types and thus enabling blood transfusions which have saved many millions of lives.

Fritz Haber of the Haber process is also near the top of the list as his invention allows for the industrial production of fertilizer.

For various discoveries and inventions involving alternating current and the electric motor, Nikola Tesla makes my list as well. 

Edward Jenner and Jonas Salk deserve much credit for discovering vaccines and creating the polio vaccine respectively. Vaccination has saved the lives of more children than any other invention.

Galileo discoveries came at great personal cost as he was forced to under public humiliation and house arrest for saying the earth goes around the sun. 

For many discoveries related to medicine as well as the food sterilization process which bears his name, Louis Pasteur earns a place on my list of great scientists. 

And of course, the big three of Newton, Darwin, and Einstein were the most world-changing scientists.

I give honorable mentions to Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison for being the all-time great inventors. 

compare and contrast - Black Panther vs subway stabbing

Black Panther (2018) - T'Challa vs. Killmonger Coronation Ceremony Fight Scene (Is This Your King?)

Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska stabbed to death on Charlotte light rail: raw video 

White Girl Bleed a Lot - Wikipedia

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The book's title relates to a quote made during a racially motivated series of assaults on July 4 2011 in Milwaukee. [2] On July 4th, a crowd of nearly 100 blacks attacked a group of white teenagers on a picnic, leading to the beating of one white woman. A black woman in the crowd was recorded saying, “Oh, white girl bleed a lot.”

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funk and disco anthems

 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

Star Wars Theme - Disco version

Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft (1971)