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Archive of entries posted on 13th July 2019
The Illustrated Frank J: Either Way, As Long As I Don’t Have to Watch It
Link of the Day: The Day We Destroyed Half of Iran’s Navy
[High Praise! to Jim Campbell’s]
Operation Praying Mantis: Relevance to Iran Today
I was on the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) when this happened. We were a ways back from the action, in the Gulf of Oman – you don’t send a carrier into the Persian Gulf, it’s a distance weapon, not a skirmish vessel – but we were the source of the A-6s and F-14’s mentioned in the article.
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Like Disney World, Except Without the Ridiculous Ticket Prices
[Marble Run: AWESOME Amusement Park for Marbles! (Part 1 – Testing)] (Viewer #76,537)
Interesting concept, well executed. If you’ve been to a theme park before, you’ll be able to relate to these marbles.
If you’re not in a hurry, you might want to hit pause so you can read the descriptions without missing any action.
Not Creepy or Stalkery At All
Google has admitted it lets some employees listen to audio from its Google Home smart speakers.
Ah… that would explain the grumbling sound I hear every time I tell it to search with Bing
An Important Distinction
An anonymous commenter at The View From North Central Idaho [High Praise!], responding to the proposition “A fair number of smart people believe socialism is a good idea”
Replace, ‘smart’ with ‘credentialed’ and I might tend to agree. Socialism tends toward being the purview of people ‘educated’ well beyond their intelligence. I see little evidence of smarts.