Once again, if there is hope in the future of Earth it lies only in leaving it.
This is my review of Lucky Hare Brewing London Gentleman ESB:
As humanity tops the windswept heights with easy grace and trods the high untrespassed sanctity of space, its may help if they know why they’re leaving. (TW: this is retarded)
Language matters. How we talk about space exploration shapes the futures we imagine and build. As two space governance specialists working together – onenon-Indigenous, one Indigenous – we see an urgent need for a different way to view space.
An Indigenous-inspired lens can help us envision and build a future with stewardship and shared responsibility, not competition and conquest.
I am picturing the type of person that wrote what I just quoted and assume this person does not pass the physiognomy test. What Indigenous-inspired lens is possible when we are discussing taking one group of humans and placing them on another rock in space? Does this guy think when we get to Mars there is going to be a group of enormous aliens living in the caves like John Carter? Should we accommodate such aliens when we get there? No, we should in fact help whichever goofy flying light ship kingdom Lynn Collins lives on. There, I created an excuse to post a photo of Lynn Collins.
The expressions used to understand, engage with and think about space aren’t neutral. They still carry the ideas of coloniality: the power structures and attitudes that persist as a legacy of colonization.
Let it be known, “coloniality” immediately gave my iPad’s spellcheck software a fit because this is clearly not a word. Let is also be known I also passed over the paragraph where he tries to justify his position by pointing out the space race itself is a race to immediately claim areas on the moon for future resource development. To which I say: no shit. Isn’t that why humans drove their ships to new lands, fought the horde, then sing and cry? (Valhalla we are coming.)
The Māori ethic of kaitiakitanga – which broadly encompasses the concept of stewardship – envisions a future grounded in reciprocity and shared responsibility. It extends beyond the human to embrace the more-than-human world.
Rather than treating space as an empty “frontier” to conquer and exploit, kaitiakitanga recognises that celestial bodies, Earth and humankind are not separate domains, but part of an interconnected system.
This perspective challenges the assumptions that only people hold moral standing. Instead, the night sky and celestial bodies have value in and of themselves.
Kaitiakitanga also maintains intergenerational responsibilities: ensuring that decisions made today honor past, present and future relationships. Such obligations also support nascent calls for an Indigenous right to space.
The Māori are not indigenous to New Zealand. By the time the British arrived, they had just completed their conquest of the native population—whom they annihilated. Opinion discarded, you are now sentenced to being launched off the moon via electromagnetic catapult. TANSTAAFL.
The British did more than just colonize the places on Earth that make it really easy for me to play tourist because I only speak English. They also gave us the bitter pint. It tends to have a toasted cracker, or bready quality. I don’t know why its called bitter, its malty not bitter. Maybe its the product of colonization but I kind of doubt it, you really only see this in England so its a nice treat over here where we ditched those retards and discussed why we did it. Not a bad version of something most of us say is not bad, but really not all that great. Lucky Hare Brewing London Gentleman ESB: 2.8/5
That article reads like it’s from my colon.
It has so much hot air you could make a straw with it.
Is it for real?
I think so. Artificial Stupidity hasn’t reached human stupidity.
This article was originally published at The Conversation.
I never could have guessed.
Where “conversation” means “I drone lefty platitudes and you smile and nod in agreement”.
Is Obama the editor in chief?
Those poor moon men. They haven’t got a prayer.
The whalers on the moon will be the ones you have to worry about.
I’m not too worried about them, they can take care of themselves. They carry a harpoon after all.
And who is the Lynn Collins and why was I not made aware of her existence already? Research must be done. Now where did I put my research underwear?
I only know Lynn Collins from two B movies: the aforementioned John Carter and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
It makes sense when you accept the fact that “indigenous” is just a synonym for “good”, “moral”, and the like.
I thought it meant ‘two generations out of the stone age’.
No, it makes sense when you accept the fact that “indigenous” is just a synonym for communist. I rule you obey. And I’ll exploit the ‘indigenous’ folx to accomplish that. Now gimme.
Does this guy think when we get to Mars there is going to be a group of enormous aliens living in the caves like John Carter?
It be a whole lot cooler if there were. Or if Space:1889 were real.
The British did more than just colonize the places on Earth that make it really easy for me to play tourist because I only speak English. They also gave us the bitter pint. It tends to have a toasted cracker, or bready quality. I don’t know why its called bitter, its malty not bitter. Maybe its the product of colonization but I kind of doubt it, you really only see this in England so its a nice treat over here where we ditched those retards and discussed why we did it. Not a bad version of something most of us say is not bad, but really not all that great. Lucky Hare Brewing London Gentleman ESB: 2.8/5
That looks like a good beer. There are some American brewers that make Bitter. Some even make a good one.
Its true to style, I just fine the style a bit meh.
Since it’s English I assume you had it at room temperature because refrigeration is evil.
No, I had it at room temperature because it was sitting in my carry on after a short weekend at the gulch. I had to have one when I got home. It’s available at Wegeman’s.
English, and Irish for that matter, should be, not warm, but cellar cold. And that is a cellar in the UK.
We could always wind up going the Bradbury route as well.
There’s a couple breweries here that do bitters, rarer is the mild.
I do like an ESB, but I hardly ever see any.
Redhook still exists.
Gracias for that comedic interlude, Senor Sharpshooter.
Once again, parody is fruitless.
launching injustices into the cosmos, one rocket at a time.
Sheer poetry.
The British did more than just colonize the places on Earth that make it really easy for me to play tourist because I only speak English.
Mexican Sharpshooter doesn’t speak Spanish?
Dude doesn’t even know how to ask where the bathroom is.
ask where the bathroom is.
¿Donde esta el cuarto que yo montó su madre como una bicicleta?
Okay that was uncalled for
Yeah, I’d have said “tu madre”.
Mexican Sharpshooter doesn’t speak Spanish?
No hablo una sola palabra de español.
Mentiroso
Please tell me he’s a good shot at least…
Judging by the article he just hit, his targets are really large. Needs more evidence before I can determine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As an ugly American currently traveling in Italy, itsa alrighta. I had to explain to the wife that the menus in English are all under the British flag. I was just impressed she knew they speak English.
And by they, I mean, the British.
Lynn Collins
As a fan of the John Carter stories*, let me say that the John Carter movie was a complete dumpster fire, and the entire writing and production staff should be fed feet-first to wild banths. Eleven perfectly good books, they had material for multiple sequels, but instead they jammed random plot elements from the entire series into a nonsensical mess, and ruined the IP for any competent, respectful treatment.
*from high school, I honestly don’t how they’d hold up now.
The movie has to have a cult following.
I read the first six books and really enjoyed them way back when. IIRC, there was a comic book adaptation in the 80s.
Not gonna lie, the fact that, at the time, the whole series was being republished with Michael Whelan covers was part of the appeal.
Thuvia Maid of Mars is forever etched into my mental registers
*searches ‘Michael Whelan Thuvia Maid of Mars’*
I’ll be in my bunk.
I kinda agree. I hadn’t read the books for ages, so canon wasn’t an issue. But they def muffed an opportunity for a series with mucho dinero.
What’s so farging hard about just doing a book, anyway? Why eff it up with stuff from other books? And torch them as sequel material in the process?
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Obligatory Monty Python spam sketch:
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The club’s appeal is becoming more selective?
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(plus machinery, that is)
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Sounds about right
I got mine! It’s on my golf hat.
Hunting cap, as it should be.
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When should I expect the late-night knock on the door?
Colonization gets a bum rap. I’d venture to guess (and safely since there is precisely 0 chance of this ever being done) that if you conducted a truly neutral and thorough examination of colonization around the globe, you’d find that it was a significant net benefit to the people supposedly subjugated by the evil Brits, and quite possibly even a net benefit to those colonized by the less benign Spanish, Belgians et al. That is probably true even counting the horrible things done by ending colonial rule as negatives of colonialism.
You would need a control group, but who would that be?
You’d need alternate timelines, since much of the good I am talking about is things like stamping out human sacrifice, sati, slave trades, and other culture specific horrors, not just improvements to nutrition, prosperity and medicine.
The Trojans colonized Italy, then the Romans colonized Britain then finally the Brits got in the game and took it worldwide! Civilization spreads one evil colonizer at a time.
Hmm, did I just blame Western Civilization on Menelaus being a lousy lay?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’d say you’re absolutely correct. Certainly with the British, Dutch, and French, being colonized was a huge leap forward. Even the Spanish and Belgians, for their nastiness (Aztecs and particularly, Congo), the natives were already doing far worse shit to each other already. Like, ‘clever’ nasty shit.
I’m not 100% convinced that the reported horrors in the Congo can be laid at the feet of the Belgians.
It was a colossally brutal shithole before they showed up, after all.
Somalis are re-conquering Minnesoda
Americans choking on Ryder Cup so USA fans are getting boorish as golfers from the British Isles dominate.
The what now?
When Europeans arrived on this continent what they found were stone age savages murdering, enslaving and eating each other. Wasnt that the point made in the movie Apocalypto ? Whatever the Europeans brought it was better than what was here already.
Finders keepers.
No, I’m just breathing heavily.
/Franky say relax
If it’s so unfair then use your indigenous ways of knowing to build a better rocketship and get there first.
This.
Imagine where we would be as a species if we could shrug off the tribalism and thuggery.
I do my part by calling “Native” Americans “Siberian Americans” just to keep things in perspective.
two space governance specialists working together – one non-Indigenous, one Indigenous
Non indigenous? One of them is a space alien? Be gone, evil colonizer.
I wonder if the “non-Indigenous” one has to kneel when the “Indigenous” one enters the room.
Or do they just look at each other and laugh at the clueless libs buying that flapdoodle.
I’m sure all the performative aspects are there, but I’m also sure that, unless the “indigenous” one is actually competent, the “non-indigenous” one performs an eye roll so hard that he’s in danger of his eyes rolling back in his head.
I’ve been enjoying the NJ tempest in a teapot.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massive-cheating-scandal-involving-democratic-governor-candidate-also-involved-husband-report
The thing that msm can’t say out loud is she likely knew about the cheating but failed to report it. As part of the honor code she was obligated to report it. That catch 22 of not being a snitch is where we are at. Oddly, much as I detest her politics it is actually a point in her favor me.
I’m actually surprised it is this close. Team blue has fucked the state massively and no amount of Trump blaming changes that. And many people actually get that too. Not enough, but more than I thought…
Still doesn’t fucking understand what she did was wrong and a violation of the honor code, and thinks she served with honor and distinction.
“Hey, it’s totally ok to pencil whip this maintenance form, right?”
The real scandal is that the cadets weren’t dismissed at the time, as they were decades ago. But honor violations are more of an embarrassment to the service than an outright bar and exposure of poor moral character. Which also doesn’t matter because morality is old fashioned and outdated. And needs of the service. Need those ring knockers to uphold the finest traditions and fill billets so the rank heavy edifice doesn’t crash down.
She has been banging her “service” drum hard. That used to work, but no longer for many.
“She has been banging her “service” drum hard.”
Phrasing?
Oh she’s going to “service” me for sure. Just not the way I’d want.
It has to be that their voters are mentally not there. There can be no other explanation.
I was watching some sad old hippies today stroking their egos by getting passing cars to honk their displeasure at “fascism” and thought, what would all these idiots do under an actual authoritarian dictatorship that didn’t just live in their empty heads?
Yes. If Trump (or the half of the country that voted for him) were fascist, protestors would be disappeared when they weren’t being mowed down. Have you see how “protestors” act towards federal agents? In my view, the federal LE complex has been remarkably tame and reserved in the response to constant, ongoing attacks for being fascist.
They’re fucking retards. You can’t openly criticize a fascist Nazi dictator, much less openly and en masse. In an actual fascist dictatorship they’d all be dead or wish they were.
Hope it stays that way. The left wants them to start shit so bad.
When I was a kid, the local PBS station would play a reading of “High Flight” then an instrumental of the Star Spangled Banner before signing off in the wee hours.
Man, that was a long time ago. So much has changed.
Our local PBS station played Pervy Jack Horkheimer just before sign-off.
Keep looking up!
I had to recite it while doing pushups.
Hey, me too! I don’t miss that one damned bit.
That was our local tv stations, non network, in socal we had
2
4
5
7
9
11
12
24
28
36
52
And 54
For channels growing up, not cable just over the air.
13 not 12
I don’t mind having an English bitter every once in awhile; Redhook used to make a pretty good one and there’s a brewery here in Tacoma that puts out a decent bitter too. Frankly though I feel like the reason the style isn’t that popular is because it isn’t made that well by most places that brew it. Caramel and crystal malts that add color to the beer also add to the amount of precursor chemical that becomes a “wet cardboard” kind of flavor if you don’t drink it fresh.
I haven’t had Redhook in ages. I used to drink their ESB, Blackhook Porter, and Ballard Bitter all the time, before AB bought into them and ruined everything.
The classic arc for a craft brewery is: struggle but make really good beer – attract customers that love it and buy lots of it – become super successful and a legend in your zip code – get bought out by AB InBev – make absolute garbage.
This Machine:
That’s a path, which usually ends in ruin. I mean, I remember Platform Brewing, I knew the owners and liked their beers. Didn’t buy another after they sold to AB-InBev, who eventually killed the brand entirely.
There was also the path to go local, statewide, region wide, then nation wide. Sierra Nevada being one of the first. Most of the newer ones that followed that path wound up needing to pull back their distribution footprints due to overexpansion and contractions in the market (Stone being the big one here).
Platform didn’t end in ruin for the original owners. It ended in a big payout. After it was bought by AB InBev, it wasn’t their brewery any more.
R C Dean:
I’m well aware. I do not disparage them their wealth and boats. Quite a few of the staff jumped ship when the brewery was sold, and they’re a big family* of brewers in the area.
*Think of coaching staffs in football and the like. Where assistant and junior brewers branch off to start their own breweries. Great Lakes of course, is the biggest family here as they’re the oldest brewery. For a beer week event several years back, they brought back 6 ex-brewers who had their own breweries for a beer pairing dinner and story night.
Nephilium:
Yeah, that’s the other danger – becoming so reliant on volume that any contraction means you have to retreat from a given market or face disaster. A 7-barrel brewpub probably won’t notice much if 5% of the general public decides to stop drinking (as much) beer, but for big packaging breweries that make all their money on minuscule retail margins that 5% is the difference between life and death.
It’s also why “co-packing” has become a new hot phrase in the industry. It’s an attempt to solve the “Oh shit we thought we were going to sell lots of beer and now we are not” problem without going completely tits-up.
My favorite was Elysian. They had a beer, “Sub Pop Pale” I think it was, that carried the tagline “because corporate beer sucks” on the bottle. They kept making that beer for quite a while after being consumed by AB. They might still make it for all I know,
The “wet cardboard” flavor is oxidation. Depending on the store I’m at in the local area, I need to check date codes (or just skip beers without one), as they are not the best at rotating old stock. I’ve seen beers that haven’t been produced in years sitting on shelves still marked at full price.
That’s good practice, for sure. Ol’ trans-2-nonenal will sneak up on you.
Btw, Im enjoying some Stone delicious in OKC of all places,
/its in the name
The Māori are not indigenous to New Zealand. By the time the British arrived, they had just completed their conquest of the native population—whom they annihilated. Opinion discarded, you are now sentenced to being launched off the moon via electromagnetic catapult.
No, no, no, “indigenous” means “the first people that white people met,” get out of here with your facts and your reasoning.
I thought indigenous means the the last group to completely genocide the prior occupants of their territory.
“two space governance specialists working together – one non-Indigenous, one Indigenous”
Both are non indigenous to space.
And “space governance specialists”? WTF is that?
Self appointed Top.Men.
Proto-colonizers, but this time they’ll do it right. Pinky swear!
What do you want someone with a General Ed degree to do for a living, teach 4th grade?
Is this beer comparable to Red Hook ESB?
I don’t know, its been a looooong time since I had Red Hook.
The classic arc for a craft brewery is: struggle but make really good beer – attract customers that love it and buy lots of it – become super successful and a legend in your zip code – get bought out by AB InBev – make absolute garbage.
Just like venture capital tech. The whole point is to get bought by Microsoft, not compete with them.
It’s like this in all venture capital funding. The only places I haven’t seen go to shit after being bought out by venture capital is Sweetwater and Bandcamp, and if you listen to the lefty harpy artists they’ll tell you Bandcamp has gone downhill such that they’re starting a new “collective” music distribution platform that is bound to fail.
It’s happening in the music business all over. Moog was bought by venture capital (though I think shitty management practices put them in the position of having to sell vs being somewhat forced into a buyout) and promptly fired their all-USA based employees and moved production to Asia, losing decades of experience and putting several dozen people out of work. Akai was bought out and turned to shit. Most music venues in the US are now part of Live Nation, which falls under the Ticketmaster umbrella which has thoroughly enshittified the experience. They now own massive chunks of all live music production from ticket sales to the venues, and even now band management and demanding huge portions of merch sales on top.
Have you read the Bob Moog biography? It’s quite good. Bob was very good at analog electronics, complete crap as a businessman. It’s a rather sad story, but well written and voluminously footnoted with actual documentation.
You know where all the carbon was 3.5 billion years ago? In the fucking atmosphere.
Forescore and I remember. Had to wear oxygen masks almost every day!
/Remembers going to school on cold days with a scarf over my face to prevent inhaling carbon particles ’cause everyone burned coal.
Want.
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gear-review/the-exothermic-pulsefire-lrt-flamethrower-because-winter-is-coming/
Winter? Dude weed season is 6 months away.
‘exothermic’? Isn’t that sort of implied by the ‘flamethrower’ bit?
Stop it, science man! Pyros are talking here.
mexican sharpshooter:
Pyro you say?
What the hell did I just watch? Some sort of homosexual Quake?!?
Putrid Meat:
Never played Team Fortress 2?
Re: Team Fortress 2 (I’m gonna stick with “Gay Quake”)
Nope. Vaguely aware of the name, but my Team Building Exercises ended with Quake 3. We stretched that game out to 2010-2012 though, but never migrated to anything beyond that.
Yup, want! I’ll be in my bunk
Wait- qualifications matter now?
Meet Lindsey Halligan, the 36-year-old former Miss Colorado hopeful who only worked 3 federal cases before Trump promoted her to U.S. attorney
Lindsey Halligan, 36, was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday, taking over one of the most significant prosecutorial offices in the country despite having no experience as a prosecutor at any level. The appointment comes after President Donald Trump forced out her predecessor, Erik Siebert, for refusing to pursue charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.
Halligan’s rapid ascension from Florida insurance lawyer to federal prosecutor represents a stark departure from traditional Justice Department hiring practices. Court records show she has participated in only three federal cases throughout her career, all while serving as one of Trump’s personal attorneys. By contrast, Siebert, whom she replaced, was listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases during his extensive prosecutorial career.
She’s a trail blazing prodigy.
So now they’ve found a woman “breaking barriers” they don’t like?
And why is that seemingly any time there’s a story about any office, its “ one of the most significant in the country”, anyway?
There is only one qualification that counts. Amoral pinko tow the party lion.
There is no reason to point out their contradictions and lies…they never argue earnestly about anything, ever.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/09/27/its-sure-looking-like-obamas-presidential-library-may-come-to-symbolize-more-than-intended-n2419599
I’m shocked! 😐
Ya think? It is perfect.
It’s a hideous example of modern architecture from the looks of it (so far). Perfect monument to his massive ego.
I looked it up to remind myself. All of the stories are about Obama stealing the money and the DEI clusterfuck. Yeah, the design is brutalism, of course. Are they going to put a giant hammer and sickle on it?
No, commies don’t want to be tainted by his legacy.
I presume crickets from all the enviros who always claim to value “green space”. 🙄
Patel fired roughly 20 FBI agents who kneeled on camera during the George Floyd bullshit. They looked like all frumpy liberal white women who work desk jobs.
No afternoon links today?
Open post!
Mrs. Parnell is watching a recent episode of Law & Order: SVU right now. I just caught a few minutes of it.
* The rape case is falling apart, judge is close to dismissing
* Fortunately there’s a witness who will pretty much guarantee they get the conviction
* He’s a hardworking standup all-around good guy but oh no he just happens to be an undocumented immigrant
* He comes down to the station anyways because he wants to do the right thing.
* Oh no, ICE just showed up at the SVU headquarters!
* They quickly arrest the witness for reasons so ICE can’t kidnap him
* Oh no, ICE arrested girlboss detective for obstruction!
That’s some serious ripped from the headlines shit right there.
I checked out the L&O revival a year or two ago for about ten minutes. Woke garbage; flipped away in disgust.
Kaitiakitanga also maintains intergenerational responsibilities: ensuring that decisions made today honor past, present and future relationships.
In other words traditional conservatism. I’m sure she doesn’t know what she’s asking for.
Chicken is on rotisserator. Threw a yard of bark dust on the flower beds. Nice fall afternoon. Hard to believe just a short drive away from the war zone.
Chicago’s south side?
Portland downtown.
Ohio State actually looks pretty good against a good opponent.
I wanted roast beef and horseradish. I forgot to spread the horseradish around.
My sinuses are now clear.