I enjoy your tesla posting & the joke was good. I was just riffing on the idea that everything musk does is lethal. I think his arc is going to end with a lot of people dying like he is going to blow up Austin or launch a rocket into Orlando.

the jokes are just writing themselves now

Yep. They grounded a old ship on an island and were trying to bring supplies to it.

On June 17 China coast guard rammed a Philippine coast guard ship. They boarded the boat, proceeded to beat them to a pulp, and now one of the Philippine sailors is missing a finger.

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

Something not right about that shooting in Arkansas. Fordyce has six cops on the police force and 5 of them showed up in the grocery store parking lot within 4 minutes of the shooting? Thats 6 cops to cover seven days a week 24 hours a day there shouldn’t be more than 2 or 3 on duty at any one time. Shooter has no criminal history. Police believe most, if not all, of the rounds were fired from a 12 gauge shotgun. Shot 13 people in a town where everyone is armed. Witnesses are saying they tried to call 911 but the service was down. Now the Arkansas state police are saying it was a completely random event nothing to see here. hmm

as long as there are leaf nodes below the snap you should be able to get new branches. I had one snap at the base once and I took a quick cutting from the broken part and put it in a glass of water. Within a week it grew roots and I repotted it and still had enough time to get some tomatoes from it.

Albert Einstein: “I, at any rate, am convinced that God does not throw dice”

God: [throws dice] HA HA C’MON SNAKE EYES PAPA NEED A NEW BAG

Nuclear capabilities

sourced from: STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

DPRK pulling out all the stops for Putin visit

I heard Brazil didn’t even want to send a diplomat so they sent an observer instead. It would have been funny if they just sent a cardboard cutout of a person and propped it up in a chair.

What do hexbears think about Putin’s recent peace offering?

All the major MSM had a headline story for Putin’s speech but didn’t go into any details and all rejected it out of hand. I had to go back to Mercouris june 14 video and transcribe them:

1)All Ukrainian troops completely withdraw from annexed territories - they are Russia now

Donetsk Luhansk Kherson Zaporizhzhia

-Russia will guarantee Ukrainian troops safe passage out of the territories

2)Formally declare abandonment of Ukrainian plans to join NATO, no nukes in Ukraine, de-militarisation, de-nazified leadership, non aligned with West

3)Drop all financial sanctions against Russia

ah that makes sense. I had this mental picture of Claudia riding shotgun in a CJ7 with the top off.

Glad Sheinbaum is ok. President of Mexico should be riding in something safer than a jeep.

I’m cleaning screenshots out of a desktop folder and I found this. Two years ago I wouldn’t have any idea what this meme was about.

Lathe go brrrrr

NYC pop 8.468 million ~ 10,500,320 acres

us pop = 331.9 million ~ 411,556,000 acres

world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres

using .5 hectare estimate

The minimum amount of agricultural land necessary for sustainable food security, with a diversified diet similar to those of North America and Western Europe (hence including meat), is 0.5 of a hectare per person. This does not allow for any land degradation such as soil erosion, and it assumes adequate water supplies. Very few populous countries have more than an average of 0.25 of a hectare. It is realistic to suppose that the absolute minimum of arable land to support one person is a mere 0.07 of a hectare–and this assumes a largely vegetarian diet, no land degradation or water shortages, virtually no post-harvest waste, and farmers who know precisely when and how to plant, fertilize, irrigate, etc. From the FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (1993)

.5 hectare ~ 1.24 acres