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In what amounts to total BS the Forest Service is planning on forcing people to pay $1500 to take photos or video on “public” lands. This really is appalling. It shows how sick and out-of-touch government has become. “Facing heavy criticism, Forest Service revises plan to charge for media access“

Most people probably know already that there is a major thing going on right now in America. That thing is inadvertently exposing a lot of the disgusting grime in the United States. The entity which is invoking this revelation is the vehicle manufacturer Tesla which makes famous, high-performance electric cars. Tesla decided to sell its…

Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International. Here was another shocking story in the news recently: In his trip to California last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto praised the state’s policies that welcome illegal aliens from Mexico.…

People think that even though they are severely fucking the Earth up, that it will be resilient and things will one day, even if in a very long time, be healthy again. But that is not really true. The window in Earth’s lifespan in which complex life such as humans can be supported will not…

At the very end of the 19th century a guy from St. Louis named Thurman invented a primitive, gasoline-powered device intended for cleaning which blew air into a receptacle. After apparently seeing a demonstration of Thurman’s device given my Thurman himself in London another guy, Hubert Cecil Booth, came up with the concept of a…

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Is that the way it is? I know I hold no position of power. I’m not particularly integrated into the makeup of society. My participation is only minimal at best. I have no influence. I’m essentially a worthless piece of shit in society. I do not contest that. So be it. But still I’m a…

Lately I’ve become more and more frustrated with WordPress for various reasons. One major reason is plugin spam: plugins that basically are mostly useless and require a paid version to actually work, or to actually work well. There’s no easy way to filter out genuine free plugins vs. ones that are not, but the ratio…

I have backups which go back for many years and, over the course of time, it seems like I kind of lost track of things and ended up with multiple copies of the same files in different backup directories. Now I want to purchase a very large drive – probably a 4TB one – and…

If you’ve been following the story of “Homo floresiensis” since it began some years ago, it is the story of some 15,000 year old human(oid) remains found on an island in Indonesia. The only issue has been that the bones do (or did) not appear to coincide with an anatomically modern Homo sapiens. It was…