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Eschewing Technology

Science!

Well, if societal pressure and/or the Gummint all say that you can’t have air conditioning during one of the worst heatwaves in living memory, then you can always rely on !Science! to provide an alternative:

Scientists claim applying YOGHURT to the outside of your windows can cool your home by as much as 3.5°C

 

Oh wait…

The idea is that the yoghurt forms a thin film on the window, reflecting some of the incoming solar radiation, and preventing heat from passing through.

You know who’s really going to go for this idea?

[checks calendar]  Nope, it isn’t April 1st.

FFS.

Rising Rage

Bad News, Shootin' Time

Having been crucified by the godless trolls of the IRS many times in the past, I loathe those bloodsucking thieves — not personally, but the system which recruits and nurtures their behavior.  What exacerbates this loathing is what my (and everyone else’s) tax “donations”* are mostly funding.

If you thought “Welfare” (37%), go to the head of the class.

And if you want to see why that 37% is so high, all you have to see is this little exchange:  as the man says:  “The fact this one dude – by himself – can walk into any state and find blatant fraud everywhere he goes proves two things: 1) the fraud is rampant at an unprecedented scale and 2) the government agencies who are supposed to protect our tax dollars are either completely incompetent or complicit in the fraud.”

In other words, that 37% is a target for embezzlers and fraudsters, and the government either doesn’t care or actively allows their activity.  (And depending on which department we’re talking about, one could add “encourages” to “allows”.)

I’m not even sure that going to the range is going to help this one.

*”donations” collected at gunpoint.

Quote Of The Day

Anti-Gun Nannies, QOTD, The Gun Thing

From these guys, talking about the response of Virginians to the latest round of socialist-inspired gun restrictions:

“When government signals that it wants to restrict a constitutional right, people often become more determined to exercise it.”

Which is what happened in Virginia.  Somewhere out there, I can hear the chuckles of native Virginians Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.