Nacarbac [any]

Just in case you haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78PfGQbL-g0

An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 200 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.

Assuming he was one of the Hecatoncheires, perhaps. But while looking for a photo of one, I came across this very convincing evidence that he was - and that some kid called “Percy Jackson” incited this whole thing.

From the reference on the wiki page, it should be published as part of The Portable Sixties Reader on p208-212 - https://annas-archive.org/md5/1a4c9e7d4519296b4947e5efdd8ef024 - just downloading it to read it myself.

Edit: That link was a large pdf that failed to download, changed to a more sensible epub.

“In conclusion the seals were riddled with bullets, smuggling large bricks of cocaine in their vests instead of armour plates, taunting Poseidon, ignoring a very ominous fortune cookie, wearing those nasty falling-apart ten-year-old boots they’d been told to throw out for seven years, had not completed the fishman supersoldier programme to develop gills, and were carrying twenty pairs of cotton socks to protect several bottles of Klingon bloodwine. As a result they sank.”

Introducing the iconic new Harris Joyster, a car with the joymentum of an iconic runaway freight train - of joy."

…honestly a great image if I ever do a GURPS Cabal or Illuminati game.

Might have some parallel to that German noble who tried that recent coup, and the QAnon/Jan 6 silliness? So much masturbatory daydreaming over the inevitability of some amorphous Cause claiming the throne of heaven that there’s no brainspace left to seriously consider that there might be suffering involved for their actual person.

It might be considered “good” for getting your stormtroopers to charge across open ground (if only once per stormtrooper), but possibly not the best for resilient leadership.

“Warfighting Warfighters Foundation: America’s Warfighting Navy”

I recall seeing a video of her as a young university student, making a fairly progressive speech with what seemed like some actual passion - so perhaps she started out as a far better person than who she became.

…but it does mean she’s just American Liz Truss.

“Jeeves, jot down this tweet for me. Send it to that chick.”

Birds?

I don’t know if the power density would actually be high enough to cook birds… but I don’t really care to check because it’ll never be built in reality so real-world performance is irrelevant, and sci-fi maser satellites are cool. Unless you’re a bird.

The Easter Island episode of Fall of Civilizations was quite eye opening on the western habit of casual extermination, mythologisation as cautionary tales of “inferior savages”, and commercialisation to sell plastic moai as cute garden toys with no history whatsoever.

But another part is ironically the decentralization of research effort as it is privatized.

A negative decentralisation of research into redundant and insular walled gardens, alongside techbro cults? Clearly this is a precursor to the Adeptus Mechanicus.

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch reportedly missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

The name of that ship? The Bayesian.

I am currently in the habit of wearing a (far too warm) hat to hide my earbuds at work, so, you’re absolutely correct.

Switching it around on the theme of misuse - motivation and praise might sometimes fit as violence (though one whose damage is probably delayed temporally). Army Recruiters seeming to be a very easy example.