Inertia Costs Nothing

Your love is like   fuzzy coffee

Mars rover finds signs of seasonal floods

Greta Thunberg on way to Mars because 4 billion year old CLIMATE CHANGE!! 

 

K2: Climbers deny walking by dying sherpa in bid to break record

Climbers: We fully deny whatever we're accused of. We did not walk by a dying sherpa. If there were any sherpas there, we were assured they were already dead, or we probably would have stopped. If the place weren't so full of dying... errr... dead people, we would have made the record.

 

No More Windows: Indian Defense Services Are Switching to Linux

It continues to be time to discover other operating systems. That don't spy on you, are free, and you don't rent.

 

Biden administration: We never coerced Big Tech into suppressing speech

We might have told them not to allow certain speech, but we did not coerce them.

• ALSO we did not reveal naps can sometimes last 22 hours
• We can't tell the difference between a German Shepherd that attacks staff and an ICBM
• Taking a whizz in Chinese food is not attacking China, Mr. President

ThermionicEmissions would like to thank American Airlines, which charges you for a wheelchair. And Las Vegas Airport, which didn't have any wheelchairs 'at the moment.' Keep up the good work, guys!

Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law

Yes, Texas - the state that ate the internet. This ridiculous First Amendment slash would require a symbol on all adult websites. These people must be brought to bear for their own 'wickedness.'  Stop Nannying and have parents watch their own kids - filter if necessary (which also won't help). I don't know if we regular people have legal standing, but everyone concerned about their First Amendment rights should join the suit. We don't have to like it, but we have to have the right to say it (or look longingly at it). 

FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls

They'll likely never see it, but this is a great symbolic win for the good guys (us).

NOTE to all women seeking breast implants:

• The size of your implants isn't any business of anybody but yourself, although the largest ones are just comical. Especially when they stand up like two half-basketballs on your chest.
• Just as anybody should pay for good tools, this is your body and you should pay for the best surgeon. If not, you wind up with nipples that look in different directions and surgical scars at the bottom of your breasts. These are unsightly and last forever. This is especially important for women who make their living with exposed breasts. These are your tools: use the best.
• That is the end of ThermionicEmissions' public service announcements for this month.

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I really need to say something. Unfortunately I can't remember what it is. It was here last night and I knew it would fit in this space. Yes, at a certain point, I needed bifocals. Now I need a brain implant, or possibly a brain, depending on who you ask.

The other thing I didn't know I wanted to say was that ThermionicEmissions is approximately, nearly, around about 12 years old. Or certainly just about in its 12th year of existence. Still free. Still ad-free. Still slaving over a hot keyboard for you. Still in a design guaranteed to cause blindness. Now with even more sarcasm! Now that's value.

Tell your friends. And enemies.

And blow our enemies to smithereens, in thy mercy.

News You Need to Know; Comments You Don't Need to Hear

Whilst perusing the rss feeds for inspiration (and knowledge), the following pretty much jumped up and bit me; like Michael Moore to a donut.

FAT TAX?

An Illinois lawmaker, Senator Shane Cultra (R-Pluto), let loose with a comment about taking away tax deductions for parents of fat kids.  Not one to shoot himself in the foot and simply stand there bleeding, he added that he'd also take away the money poorer families get for having more kids.

Although Cultra (probably no relation to MK-ULTRA) backpedaled like a priest caught with an underage parishoner, there is video that indicates otherwise.

Also bandied about was a tax on sugary drinks.  The concept of sin taxes is one that deserves a closer look.  It was bad enough when only cigarettes got taxed (because everybody hates smokers, right?), but now they're talking about taxing my Coke or Code Red?  They'll get soda tax revenue from me when they pry the Mountain Dew from my cold, dead hands.

For the record, I'm against sin taxes on anything (yes, even cigarettes).  There are two important points here:

1. Who decides what is a sin?
2. It it not the job of government to Big Brother us to death, even if it is a matter of our health.  One of the beauties of being an American is the right to grow bigger than a senator's guaranteed pension with impunity, if not dignity (and even pride).

If people truly want Big Brother, all they have to do is sit back and let it happen.  It certainly won't be my America anymore, though...

SMILE, FAT KID

Speaking of Big Brother, there is a two million dollar project slated to start in a San Antonio elementary school shortly.  Cameras installed in the lunchroom will photograph what children put on their trays and later what's left on the trays `to report back to their parents' and for research.

The money comes from a Department of Agriculture grant; in other words, your tax dollars.  Don't worry, though.... parents will have to give permission and "only the trays will be photographed".

Ummmm...... no.

• How did these lunchroom cameras come to be installed already?
• Isn't it the responsibility of parents to instill good eating habits in their little darlings?
• The schools, en loco governmentus, simply have no business here.
• The kids not being photographed is a red herring - all of the information is personally identifiable.
• Will the parents be taxed on how much air their child breathes?

I wonder if there's a contingency in place for when the parents pack lunch for their kids.  Will the cameras follow them around to make sure they don't trade their broccoli for Ring Dings?  Actually, I'm more interested in weeding out the children who would accept this as a trade.   Will the kids be forced to file an flight eating plan for the week, complete with calorie counts (btw, what is the Recommended Daily Allowance of boogers)?

Sheer unadulterated stupidity from Texas.

BOOBIES!

My day (some say my life) would not be complete without at least one ode to boobies.  Today's little ditty shifts gears in a nearly pleasant way from government oppression to oppression by (and for) boobs.

Some genius has developed an application that will take a before picture and allow a woman to see the effect implants (of any size) will have.  Keep in mind this app was developed by a woman.  I suppose it makes more sense when you understand that the woman in question is a plastic surgeon.

In short, you input a picture then move the slider to see the effect of each size implant.  Some wags (generally male ones) would say that this would be tremendous in real life (but I'm not one of them).

Now before we get too excited, the program only runs on iDevices.  What Dr. Implants has against the Android operating system is anyone's guess.  When Steve Jobs hears about this app, it will be ported to Android immediately.  Mr. Jobs (currently on leave due to iCancer) doesn't like boobies for some reason.

The real head turner here is that the program allows users to post the augmented pictures to Facebook, so friends and family can weigh in on the new look.

Oh God.  No.

• -- >  Hey, y'all - check out my new boobies!   < --
• Vote for your favorite size! 
• Do this rack look realz?    ( . ) ( . )  lolz!
• I wuz gonna go for F's but my family talked me into D's.
• They're going to install them through my nostrils soze I won't get scars.