Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• A clear-eyed look at military hardware journalism: "It’s not objectivity—it’s Stockholm Syndrome with tracer rounds."


• Meta's all up in your business, snooping...again.


• Uber comes up with an idea for shuttles that run fixed regular routes and carry a bunch of passengers. I thought those were called "buses"?

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Close the Week Out With a Meme!

Automotif DLXXXII...

Only 2,400 Citroën SM coupes were imported during the 1972 and 1973 model years, making this sighting of a '72 SM just out driving around Broad Ripple on Tuesday afternoon a rare occurrence indeed.

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Robo-Grope

If the TSA gets their new tech to work, they'll be able to feel you up without touching you.

Basically, using the combination of augmented reality goggles, haptic feedback devices in gloves, and sensors like backscatter X-rays or millimeter wave radar, an airport blueshirt will be able to cop a feel or fondle your junk remotely.

The future is really gross and squicky.

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Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Global automakers feeling the pinch of China's rare earth export restrictions.


• Meanwhile, the U.S. continues disengaging from one to the globe's other abundant sources of those strategic resources.


• Jim Grey's monthly "Old Cars Parked" roundup for May of 2025

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Midweek Memes!

Meme Dump!

"L'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

Here's a gift link to a video-heavy article on Ukraine's decapitation strike against Russian strategic aviation assets.

The level of planning and preparation this took is just off the chain, to the point that the guys driving the trucks with the little prefab conex "houses" that concealed the racks of drones under their roofs were just patsies who had no idea what they were hauling.

You could walk into the "house" and look around and not notice anything because the drone racks were concealed in an 8" deep space between the interior ceiling and the external roof. So some guy hires you to tow his tiny house for him with instructions to just drop it off in a specific parking lot at a specific time and his buddy will come get it from there... what's so hinky about that?

To put this all in perspective, remember that Russia set out in February of 2022 to duplicate the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. If OIF had gone like that, we would have been recommissioning M48 Pattons to use as mobile artillery pieces in the bogged-down fighting around Basra in 2006, when a surprise attack blows up half our B52s on the ground at Barksdale, AFB.

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Monday Memes!

Automotif DLXXXI...

A 1973 Pontiac Firebird Formula in Navajo Orange. This one's got the dual-exhaust 4-barrel L78 400 rated at 230 SAE net horsepower, backed with a TH400 3-speed auto.

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