 disaster porn is booms and trumpets. The rapture visionaries have been focusing on this for a while because of the biblical significance of trumpets.
Most of the booms are clearly supersonic meteors. The booms were reported almost simultaneously in towns along a line. No mystery there. Others could be small earthquakes. We're certainly in a period of strong seismic activity, similar to 1812.
The trumpet sounds are less obvious. Metal blades scraping on rock or pavement can generate those sounds. There was an epidemic of trumpets around here a few years ago, which was quickly traced to an overenthusiastic snowplow working late at night in several parking lots.
Listening to some of the clips, these aren't snowplows. Could be rock scraping on rock as a prelude to an earthquake, or could be a loud radio or outdoor concert passing through an 'acoustic channel' formed by inversions. In other words, it's either rock-n-rock or rock-n-roll.
Several of the clips feature two notes separated by a major fifth, which heightens the trumpet or bugle effect. I can't think of an easy explanation for this! Reminds me of the Pascagoula singing fish.
ZH says the reports are credible enough that the FBI is "investigating" the source.
NO, YOU FOOLS. The Bureau of Instigation doesn't investigate. The Bureau of Instigation instigates. FBI is looking into the PEOPLE WHO ARE REPORTING the booms. Most likely the Bureau of Instigation started the rumors, but even if the rumors started independently, this is a great opportunity to capture some "terrorists" and create some new "terrorists".
¶ 11:55 PM
Stupidity reaches new depths again
Stupidest robot idea ever. It's MANUALLY operated by the dude inside. It's not a robot at all, it's just an absurdly inefficient and ineffective hydraulic crawler. Supposedly it will be able to go 15 mph over rough terrain, which matches the ability of a plain old human running on plain old legs.
We already had better and smarter robots than this one 200 fucking years ago.
This "invention" really belongs in a different competition:
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Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name, contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa, and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.
"My husband and I would joke and say I'd bet these devices are listening to what we're saying," said Danielle.
OF COURSE THE FUCKING DEVICE IS LISTENING TO EVERYTHING. HOW IN THE FUCKING FUCK DOES IT KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THE 'CORRECT' COMMAND IF IT'S NOT FUCKING LISTENING ALL THE FUCKING TIME AND RECORDING AND STORING AND ANALYZING EVERY FUCKING IDIOTIC STUPID THING YOU IDIOTICALLY STUPIDLY SAY? JESUS. JESUS. JESUS.
Frankly, though I hate everything remotely associated with Satan Bezos, I sympathize with Alexa. If I had to listen to brainless twats like Danielle all day, I'd start making prank calls just for comic relief. "Hello, this is Alexa. Do you have Prince Albert in the can? No? Well then, maybe you'd like to hear what your idiot friend Danielle is talking about."
Does he see the conflict?Interesting and puzzling article by Jules Gomes. He gives a Natural Law interpretation of the Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11, which runs directly opposite to the interpretation in the text itself.
Facts: The tower was built by an imperialist nation (apparently the Assyrians) who enforced linguistic uniformity, just as modern tyrants do. God busted up the tower and busted up the uniformity.
Gomes (representing Natural Law and localism and GOD) and the Hebrew writers (representing globalism and abstract theory, then as now) agree on the facts, but disagree on which condition is good.
The writers of the Old Testament clearly see uniformity and orthodoxy as good, and see multiplicity as Satanic.
Nature and civilization and Gomes AND GOD see uniformity and orthodoxy as genocidal, and modularity as necessary for survival.
Unfortunately Gomes doesn't acknowledge the conflict or the difference in viewpoint. He