I’m not a gadget guy, for the most part, but I’m still blown away by 3D printing.
To me, the ability to render something in a computer and have it turned into something real and tangible with a device you bought from Amazon is beyond fascinating.
Unsurprisingly, this technology has been a boon to the Second Amendment. Now, people can produce their own firearms whenever they want and trust they’ll have the means to remain armed no matter what.
President Joe Biden was in full flow, celebrating the nation’s national parks during a visit to Colorado and paying tribute to the bravery of American servicemen and women.
And then the 79-year-old delivered the line that would overshadow his visit to Camp Hale, a World War II military installation that was used to train the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
‘I say this is a father of a man who won the bronze star the conspicuous service medal and lost his life in Iraq,’ he said.
God forbid he gets a 2nd term but pray he makes it through his first, President Kamala is an even more awful prospect.
(Reuters)—Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot “indefinitely” fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousands more terminals after a report suggested that his rocket company had asked the Pentagon to pay for the donations.
Musk’s comment on the question of support for the internet service in Ukraine comes after he angered many Ukrainians with a proposal to end Russia’s war in their country that included ceding some territory.
A Democratic delegate in Virginia plans on introducing a bill that would hold parents criminally liable for refusing to treat their children as a different gender from the one they were born into.
The Ontario College of Teachers is reviewing its professional standards following the uproar over an Oakville teacher’s appearance.
The review responds to a request from Education Minister Stephen Lecce and the college says the results will go directly to the minister.
An unidentified man unfurled a banner over a bridge in Beijing calling for the removal of President Xi in a rare protest three days before China’s leader is set to begin an unprecedented third term.
“No PCR tests but food, no controls but freedom, no lies but dignity, no cultural revolution but reforms, no leader but ballots, don’t be slaves but citizens,” read the banner. Another banner called for the removal of Xi as a dictator and a traitor and urged the public to go on strike.
Sitong Bridge, Haidian District, Beijing, a man displayed banners and shouted slogans against Xi Jinping. He had been arrested and voice disappeared, but maybe in the future, everyone who crosses this bridge will remember that there was once a man…#TheGreatTranslationMovement pic.twitter.com/Fr20sF9XFK
— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动官方推号 (@TGTM_Official) October 13, 2022
… The two protesters walked into the room and at 11 am threw the tins of soup over the painting.
Speaking after throwing the soup, Phoebe Plummer, 21, said: “Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?
Soup is worth more than your silly virtue signaling.
Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022
h/t DM
Earlier this week, I came across a fascinating and harrowing demographic report from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, analyzing “elite” college students’ political biases.
It explains that college campuses are left-wing — shocker, I know… — but moreover, it exposes what happens when insular college students hold absurdly unrepresentative viewpoints.
Across dozens of pages, the report unveils that these students live for several years on an island where religion is shunned, and race somehow correlates directly with political ideology. The gender gap is nearly five times larger than in the general population — as more men wisely eschew college.
And this matters. Remember, despite their naiveté and limited life experience, college students and recent graduates, unfortunately, have an outsized effect on politics.
A US-based Syrian research team has identified mass graves where Islamic State may have buried its victims, including British and other western hostages it publicly murdered.
The claims, in a report on Isis prisons and based on court cases and interviews involving former Isis fighters, will bring renewed hope to families that the bodies of their loved ones may eventually be recovered.
The research team, from the the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, tracked the cases in America against two of the so-called “Beatles”, the British jihadist gang that oversaw the detention of hostages. Alexanda Kotey, 38, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, are both serving life terms in the US.
FIRST READING: Yet another prominent Indigenous Canadian who may not actually be Indigenous
It’s happened yet again: Compelling evidence has emerged that a prominent Indigenous scholar may not actually be Indigenous at all.
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was often counted among the handful of Indigenous people who have received judicial appointments in Canada — and was reportedly a candidate to become the first Indigenous justice of the Supreme Court. She served as B.C.’s first Representative for Children and Youth and is now director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia.
Gonna be a packed field this year. Below is CBC’s response to the counter-claims that the fake Indian is real.
Indigenous groups rally around Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond amid calls for proof of her Cree ancestry
Indigenous organizations in Saskatchewan and British Columbia are expressing support for Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in the wake of a CBC News investigation into her claims to Indigenous ancestry.
But some Indigenous scholars are calling on the prominent academic and former judge — she is a professor at UBC and was on the bench in Saskatchewan — to answer the questions it raised.
For decades, Turpel-Lafond has claimed to be a treaty Indian of Cree descent. However, when challenged, she has refused to provide evidence of her claims.
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, revealed on Friday morning that the five victims killed by a 15-year-old suspect on a deadly shooting rampage included an off-duty officer on his way to work and a 16-year-old boy.
Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson identified the deceased victims in the Thursday evening shooting as officer Gabriel Torres, 29, Nicole Conners, 52, Mary Marshall, 35, Susan Karnatz, 49, and James Thompson, 16.
With the Emergencies Act Inquiry, the jig is up for Justin Trudeau and time is running out for the prime minister.
At least as far as the truth is concerned.
We will soon know Trudeau was very well acquainted with the facts of the Freedom Convoy, but he chose to assiduously ignore them and distort reality to his own political ends.
The evidence already points this way.
In a letter to EU diplomats, Tehran claims ‘bilateral relations may not survive’ as the EU moves to penalize Iran for killing protesters.
VIENNA/BRUSSELS/BERLIN/PARIS — Iran this week privately pressured EU diplomats to abandon sanctions against Tehran over its lethal crackdown on protesters, warning diplomats the move may rupture Europe’s ties to the country.
“If Europe misses taking the nuances of the current situation into consideration, the ramification will be grave and the bilateral relations may not survive it,” warned one letter — sent to a group of EU ambassadors and seen by POLITICO — which details an alternate, Tehran-friendly narrative disconnected from numerous reports coming out of Iran.
Remembering #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh. Her words explain so much about those of her generation who are on the streets fighting for freedom. I don’t know who put this together, but it’s touching. R.I.P. Sarina. #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/jX7u4Ewvuw
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 9, 2022
A nation that sends threatening letters is not likely to care much about Justin’s windbaggery.
Canada to designate Iranian regime as serial human rights violator: ministers
The government of Canada is using a “powerful and sparingly” used provision to designate the entirety of the Iranian regime as an entity that is a “serial violator of human rights” and one that commits acts of terror, federal cabinet ministers announced Thursday.
Turns out a group of suspected armed carjackers accused of terrorizing Toronto are too young to legally drive.
But apparently they’re not too young to hold a gun to people’s heads and demand their car or cash.
I wonder what kind of music they like?
A Calgary man has been charged with multiple counts of criminal harassment after the CPS hate crime team investigated a number of threats that were found to be hate-motivated.
Calgary police said they received reports around 8 p.m. on Oct. 11 that a man had called and made threats to staff and the church congregation at the All Saints Russian Orthodox Church on 8 Ave. N.E. Police said it is believed the church was targeted because of its Russian heritage and have deemed the threats to be hate-motivated, a news release said Thursday.
