"It'll be fine." nuclear version

Every once in a while, you find something so egregious that you can't let it pass without comment. There is nothing so important in this world that you can trust the maintenance men to do it right, not even a nuclear submarine.

The Royal Navy used superglue to repair a nuclear reactor, with an urgent investigation being ordered into the matter.

Maintenance workers used the glue to fix a damaged nuclear reactor on a Trident submarine while it was dry docking for a refurbishment and refuel at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth.

The submarine carries Trident ballistic missiles and is one of four nuclear powered nuclear submarines.

It was discovered by engineers while they were preparing to set the reactor to full power.

Workers are accused of supergluing bolt heads back on instead of properly replacing them.

Emphasis mine.

The article doesn't go into any detail about what bolts these were or where they were missing from, but it sounds like Frick and Frack twisted a few bolts off and glued the heads back on to make everything look nice. If they were on some non-critical item like a wiring bracket or similar, this is a tempest in a teapot. On the other hand, if it was in a pump body, pipe flange or something like that, it could potentially sink the ship. The wrong thing breaks at the wrong time, it can go kaboom.

Still, the mere fact that some asshole glued the heads back on to cover up what they'd done means that now they have to go check every bolt. Almost worse than deliberate sabotage, really. Somebody will likely go to jail.

From my cold, dead kitchen...

Yes, they really are coming for your gas stove.

The full-court press to scare people about a perfectly safe kitchen appliance found in nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes and a ubiquitous feature of restaurants nationwide has been years in the making and is part of a carefully cultivated campaign.

Long story short, this is an example of Leftists using the same techniques from gun control in a different subject area. As laid out in the article, a few Lefty propagandists at UCLA, Stanford, the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Sierra Club are providing scary-looking statistics so that Leftist politicians in New York State and Los Angeles can have a shot at banning the use of fossil fuels in your house.

So no, gas stoves do not cause 12.7% of childhood asthma as claimed recently by the Rocky Mountain Institute. Just the same as a gun in your home does not double your risk of becoming a victim of homicide, as claimed by some asshole in the Annals of Internal Medicine. And no, electric induction stoves are not "better" than gas stoves. That's another pile of bullshit propped up by the same propaganda campaign.

Same assholes, same lies, different subjects.

Update: The Rocky Mountain Institute is good buddies with communist government of China. Shocking, right?

Scooby-Do remake 2023. How bad could it be, you ask?

Here we are on the 12th of January and I've finally found something so stupid I need to mock it. The Scooby-Do remake called Velma on HBO streaming.

Before we get started with the mockery, just imagine for a second what's going to be in a 2023 version of Scooby-Do.  What do we expect?

There will be pointless swearing, race-race-race, gay-gay-gay, and not much else. Oh, and it won't be funny. Right?

Right.

"Velma never goes the full Archer route of adult animation, and mostly refrains from using the word "fuck," lest kids get ahold of the remote. But the series' writers find clever (if inanely goofy) ways to work around those constraints, like in one episode that takes place at Crystal Cove's Fog King Festival. Get it? Fog King? Keep going.

"Mostly refrains," uh huh. Pointless wearing, check.

"The series also recasts its central crew with some much-needed diversity. Mindy Kaling voices Velma, now the daughter of two Indian parents, one of whom has gone missing. And Shaggy (who now goes by his birth name, Norville), is a biracial newspaper nerd voiced by Sam Richardson."

Race-race-race, check.

"Yes, after hinting at it across two seasons of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated and giving Velma a woman to crush on in 2022's Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, Velma finally gets to be the queer icon that legions of fans have assumed her to be for decades."

Gay-gay-gay, check!

"Some punchlines completely sneak up on you, like Velma asserting, "The only other person who's ever found me irreplaceable is the captain of my tug-of-war team.""

Not funny, checkity-check-check.

In a town like Crystal Cove, the murder of a busty mega-babe is front-page news. It could mean that all of the city's hottest residents are in danger, causing Fred (Glenn Howerton) to worry about his beloved Daphne's safety. The serial murders of Instagram-perfect co-eds are the catalyst for Velma's funniest running joke, reducing its titular character to an absolute dumpster of a woman who has to wade through a sea of sexpots to be heard. These gags double as cutting jabs at the franchise's history, which more often than not reduced Velma to a homely, sexless brainiac in a shapeless sweater as a foil to Daphne's curvy figure and bombshell red locks.

Nothing else going on, hell yeah.

In other words this is the feminazi flogging of a whole herd of dead Leftist horses by a suddenly brown and gay Velma Dinkly, accompanied by a suddenly brown Shaggy, with tons of stupid Leftist shit from the people who brought you three other Netflix series full of stupid Leftist shit. Oh, and shipping Velma and Daphne. Exactly what we expect. Like they can't help themselves.

Unsurprisingly in related news we hear that Hollywood movie earnings are down 48% since 2019, and that streaming earnings are similarly in the toilet. Because nobody wants to watch weirdos and perverts crap all over their childhood memories of Saturday morning cartoons.

Which is probably why Bleach is now showing on Disney+. Bleach is one of the biggest, longest running, most successful animation shows out there. The new season has been anticipated since ~2012. Disney+ scooped up the exclusive rights to stream it in North America. The reason they did it is that Crunchyroll is making money when all the other streaming services are cutting staff. Even the stupidest Hollywood maggot can see the difference in audience response between bog-standard anime and Woke ™ crap like Velma.

Here endeth the rant.