History, Politics And Current Affairs

gtg947h wrote: ↑Tue Feb 17, 2026 12:40 pm Hm.

I am still uneasy (at best) about AI in general. But if we're going to have mass drivers on the moon, and AI running things, we have to name it Mike. Just saying...

I approve.

Mike

kdahm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 4:01 pm I'll say, though, the reality of the SM-62 Snark was significantly better than that one test, with a test CEP larger than a continent.

...Ya miss a continent ONCE, and they never let you hear the end of it.

Mike

...Today I Learned:

* In testing, the Wehrmacht said the V-1 had a CEP of 850 meters.

*In postwar testing, the V-1 was found to have a CEP of 12 kilometers.

Mike

....Heck, I just found out about an hour ago who won the doggoned game.

Mike

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:35 pm

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 3:07 pm

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:01 pm I saw this on farce book, I commented that the driver was an idiot and didn't deserve to own a Mustang.

...Shall I have him beaten, Sir? That ALWAYS cheers you up.

Mike

immediately with a radiator hose.

(CRACKS KNUCKLES AND LAUGHS EVILLY)

Mike

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:01 pm I saw this on farce book, I commented that the driver was an idiot and didn't deserve to own a Mustang.

...Shall I have him beaten, Sir? That ALWAYS cheers you up.

Mike

Pdf27 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 7:17 am

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 10:57 pm

King George’s hair looks like someone melted down and hardened a plastic badger.

That right there is a keeper.

Mike

Can you think of a better description?
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Pdf,

Never in a million years.

Mike

King George’s hair looks like someone melted down and hardened a plastic badger.

That right there is a keeper.

Mike

I thought we could use a little more lighthearted stuff on the board lately, this details a B-52s desperate attempt to return to Seymour Johnson (seriously) air base with a leaking fuel take and 2 mark 39 bombs yielding 3.8 megatons. Also dropping nucs on Denmark sovereign soil allready has a prece...

We got about 4" of snow (or as we would have called that in Cleveland, 'Tuesday') which was mostly gone by this afternoon. But still a lot of moisture on the ground and the low tonight is going to be 11.

Mike

David Newton wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:15 pm

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:55 pm What was he thinking?

Probably something along the lines of uuuuuuuuuuh, unnnnnngh, duuuuuuuuuuh!

"Sir, it wasn't my fault - he had the big 48 piece box of Crayolas!!"

Mike

...I believe the technical term for CPL Rosa's current situation is, "deep shit".

Mike

As I recall, we’ve also nuked Spain, New Jersey and Arkansas. ...AND South Carolina. Mike Oh yeah! And as I recall, that one is still buried in the swamp somewhere waiting to “cook off”! Nightwatch, Ours was Mars Bluff SC - a B-47 on its way to the UK with a live weapon in the bay accidentally got ...

I thought we could use a little more lighthearted stuff on the board lately, this details a B-52s desperate attempt to return to Seymour Johnson (seriously) air base with a leaking fuel take and 2 mark 39 bombs yielding 3.8 megatons. Also dropping nucs on Denmark sovereign soil allready has a prece...

...Ran across this on TwiX today and it definitely got my attention. Short summary - during the 1947 Royal Cruise, HMS Vanguard may have come within an ace of a flat-out mutiny due to conditions on board. Based on the documents that are included in the post, I think the report is accurate. Intereste...

....What's impressive is that it looks like he was the first guy to do it on his own. A cool story - when Coke managed to beclown itself in the mid-80s with New Coke, most of its competitors knew well ahead of time that it wasn't going to work out quite the way Coke thought. But most didn't have the...

"....Oh, I'm afraid the the Monroe Doctrine is still quite operational...."

Mike

...Dave Barry's usual December masterpiece. I don't care if you're Conservative, Liberal, or Raving Loony, this is funny . Mike https://substack.com/home/post/p-182456375 This shit is usually only funny when it’s true. It doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive however! (Can we borrow your raccoon pl...

...Dave Barry's usual December masterpiece. I don't care if you're Conservative, Liberal, or Raving Loony, this is funny.

Mike

https://substack.com/home/post/p-182456375

....So, apparently the last ICE Jaguar - an F-Pace SUV - came off the line on 19 December, headed straight to a museum. Sometime next year, an all-electric GT will start coming off the line, with a 150,000 pound price tag. Wondering what my friends on the other side of the Pond see in the future for...