Volcanic lightning is an electrical discharge caused by a volcanic eruption. This rare phenomenon is caused by the static electricity that is generated in the volcanic plume

"In 1901, the Anglo-Saxons killed 53% of our children. Now they've come for you, Russia."

In Johannesburg, a man holding a placard greets delegations arriving for the BRICS summit.

He says back in 1901, the British came to South Africa after gold was discovered there. They came with almost 500,000-strong army to, as they say, establish "democracy", the man added.

"They use democracy as an excuse. And after that they own all the minerals, and I think money is still flowing to them," he told Izvestia correspondent Alexei Lazurenko.

Simplicius on Prigozhin.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/special-report-the-curtain-closes

‘Blade Runners’ continue to sabotage ULEZ(Ultra Low Emmissions Zone) cameras in London.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12404209/Moment-anti-ULEZ-Blade-Runner-brazenly-sabotages-camera-using-tree-lopper-underground-activists-wage-campaign-bring-Sadiq-Khans-low-emission-monitors.html

Dr. McCullough: "I'm a cardiologist. I can tell you before COVID-19, I saw two cases of myocarditis my entire career ... two cases over decades. Now, I see two cases per day in the clinic." (1 minute, 15 seconds)

Never annoy a writer...

"TIL when the now widely celebrated sitcom Fawlty Towers was first aired, it received a negative review from critic Richard Ingrams. The show’s creator John Cleese got revenge by naming one of the characters who is caught with a blow up sex doll after Ingrams."

https://ift.tt/VqFixnA

Over 700 Undercover Cops Sue Los Angeles for ‘Accidentally’ Releasing Their Police Profiles to Anti-Cop Site

https://nationalpolice.org/main/over-700-undercover-cops-sue-los-angeles-for-accidentally-releasing-their-police-profiles-to-anti-cop-site/

The scientific method refers to a process of thought based on integrating previous knowledge, observing, measuring, and logical reasoning.

“If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.”
— Richard Feynman

https://fs.blog/mental-model-scientific-method/

Synchropter Kaman K-MAX. The most unusual helicopter.

According to Kaman, the criss-cross rotor design is the most effective for vertical lifting operations, as it reduces power consumption, structure weight, noise, vibration, maintenance costs, and safety associated with no tail rotor.
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🇺🇸 People posing on the Fieldbrook stump, probably the largest redwood tree in the world, Humboldt County, California, 1890's. It was cut down to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk
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"No one would take the Bud Light all night long. Big issue going forward for Bud Light is many don’t even want to be seen with product. They just pick another brand," he said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/clay-travis-free-beer-experiment-shows-people-want-seen-bud-light.amp

Yesterday, at riding, a woman turned up - L - who I hadn't seen for a while. She's independent-minded, doesn't read or trust newspapers, used to enjoy things like riding round Goa on a motorbike.

Me: Where have you been? Haven't seen you for a while.
L: I had a near-fatal stroke. My specialist told me it was probably the vaccine.
Me: So sorry to hear this. But do you not remember, in the early days, I kept banging on and on telling any of you who'd listen 'Don't take the jab.'
L (ruefully): Well, I made my choice.
Me: You did. But it wasn't an INFORMED choice was it? I bet they never mentioned at any stage, 'This might cause a stroke.'?
L: My daughter has had problems too..

I'm sure there are so many stories like this all up and down the country. It's so sad. They are such evil bastards.

"The other thing you often hear about is death. People say, “It’s not going to happen while I’m around therefore I don’t need to bother about it.” I’ve had lots of people say to me, “Oh, it’s 40 to 50 years off. Who knows what will happen? I can’t do anything. You can’t do anything. So, what’s the point? In any case, I’ll be dead by then anyway or gaga or very elderly.” And so on. You hear that again and again, because of course what you have in modern Western societies is the extreme powerlessness of the individual. Apart from maybe in consumption and expenditure of cash, the average individual feels totally cut off from the external society. It’s what I call deep privatization.

Privatization in the 1980s and the 1990s meant the dispersal of public utilities and was a sort of Thatcherite and neo-liberal ideology, but privatization has actually gone much deeper than that. It’s the view that each is out for himself and society hardly exists beyond the confines of one’s own family, one’s own extended family, and people one happens to know. People feel not just sort of deracinated, but de-popularized and de-democratized, if there are such terms. People are, in an extraordinary sense, alone. Alone with the television, alone with the telescreen, which when they flip from channel to channel tells them all the time that everything is perfect and there are only nasty-minded people who will stir things up as vanguards and various forms of extremism."

—Jonathan Bowden, Vanguardism, 2011