My Name Is Weirddave, COB of COBs; Look Upon My ONT, Ye Mighty, And Despair!

Good evening Mr. and Mrs. Moron, and all the ships at sea. It's Thursday night, July 7th 2022. Here's a look at the world around us.

Flat Pack Jug

This might just be the coolest clip I've ever posted here.

I had to trim the last few seconds to get to Twitter's length limitations, but it does take off at the end. The last 12 seconds are linked in a follow up tweet.

Land Of The Free

After decades in woods, New Hampshire man forced from cabin

For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his cat and chickens.
But his off-the-grid existence appears to be at risk.
“River Dave,” as he’s known by boaters and kayakers, is behind bars after being accused of squatting for 27 years on private property in Canterbury. As the owner of the land seeks to tear down the cabin, Lidstone has been jailed since July 15 on a civil contempt sanction.
“You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you’ve got all my possessions. You keep ’em,” he told a judge at a hearing Wednesday. “I’ll sit here with your uniform on until I rot, sir.”

I can see both sides here. He doesn't seem to be hurting anyone, but it's not his land. And if the guy who owned the land was looking to develop or sell the land, then the guy would have to move. That doesn't seem to be the case, and the hermit has lived there for a long time. Ultimately it's the land owner's say, of course, but it just seems like a shitty situation. If it was my fallow land and the guy wasn't hurting anybody, I'd leave him be. The authorities, as always, seem to be eager to go after someone who just wants to be left alone. Good thing he didn't have a shotgun with a barrel that's an inch too short or he'd be dead now.

Is This A Thing?

Manufacturing Plants Aren’t Just Mysteriously Getting Burned Down In The United States, It’s Happening Around The World…

I always remind myself that the human brain is hard-wired to spot patterns, and it will find patterns where none exist. The article notes over 100 “supply chain disruptions” since January. It also casts a larger net than usual when talking about this story/non-story, including not just “Fire at XYZ food plant” but also incidents like “10,000 cattle mysteriously die”. Still, 100 incidents seems to be a lot. But is it really? How many food processing plants are there in the US? And if you're going to include things like dead chickens, you have to include the number of farms in the denominator too. So is this a pattern, or it a product of human brains inventing a pattern from random incidents?

This Guy Would Say It's A Pattern

Are You Ready To Be An American Kulak?

This article triggers my spidey-sense with repeated references to the “White, middle class male”. Such verbiage is all too common in articles written by supremacist types, and I usually don't link their garbage. However, it also seems to be used mostly as an identifier of the people being targeted as they are identified by the left, and I can't fault it for that. Leftism runs on division and racism, to them the individual doesn't matter, only what group one belongs to. We all know the left has a giant hate on for White, Christian males, just browse leftist Twitter and it's on display every day. Is using their terminology to describe their actions racist? I do recognize there's a line here, and I'll be watching to make sure it isn't crossed.

Doc_0 Hits It Out Of The Park On The “Great Reset”

Go read the whole thing.

How The Turn Has Wormed

Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough

Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.” Gentrifier is a woke term used to describe those who purposely contribute to the displacement of low-income families. Mina’s World was located just around the corner from Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia and employed mostly minority workers.

Ironically— prior to the allegations from employees—Parikh spoke to Bon Appetit about the opening of Mina’s World and said when she worked at different coffee shops, “white ownership neglected to protect their Black and trans employees. I knew there needed to be a space where you could have an amazingly made cup of coffee that’s not whitewashed.”
Fast forward two years and employees of Mina’s World have put out a public statement where they claimed they were suffering from a plethora of “systemic” woes as a result of the alleged gentrification including “employer opposition” and “anti-blackness.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

No Fun Zone

Stanford’s War on Social Life

College was fun. Sure, I did some stupid stuff, and some drunken stuff, and some stupid drunken stuff, but a big part of “the college experience” was the social aspect of it all. It's why I lived on campus my first year, even though my parents house was only a few miles from the school I attended. Even though there were multiple safety nets beneath me, I was “on my own” and that was a great learning experience. There was freedom to explore the boundaries and even an expectation that they would be pushed, and a grudging acceptance that harmless crazy stuff was going to be part of the package. (BTW, all those safety nets went away when I did too much fun, drunken, stupid stuff and not enough boring, serious, studying stuff and flunked out. I ALSO learned a lot supporting myself over the following years as I worked to get back into school and finish my degree)

While I'm sure that there is still fun to be had in college these days, the model that the campus runs on seems to be more of a cog in the machine one rather than an active social life one. And that's sad.

How Great Men Are Made

(And it's not by partying too much and flunking out of college.)

‘This Damn Vacation Is Over’: Clarence Thomas Recalls Grandfather’s Influence

I have the book this is excerpted from, but I haven't read it. I'm looking forward to it.

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