Day: January 30, 2025, 6:38 PM

Wood You Believe

Chill War, WTF

For those not in the know, wooden armor does nearly nothing against any kind of munition that would threaten something like a tank. It’d be very slightly effective against the weakest drones (though posing a fire risk), do nearly nothing against anything greater than 7.62mm, and would be like air to anything beyond that. (There are some nuances here regarding HEAT rounds and shaped charges I’m not discussing.)

This is pointless and mostly dumb.

It’d take approximately 12 feet of wood (depending on type) to stop what three inches of modern alloy armor can keep from penetrating.

Chill Links

Tiffany Workers Mock Forced ‘Joy’ That Exacerbated Staff Exits.

Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable zone.

Glut of New Houses for Sale in the South Is Bigger Even than during the Housing Bust. The Glut in the West Gets Close.

Turns out that quite a lot of what it is useful to accomplish with these elaborate machines does boil down to pushing metaphorical digital paper.

At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged in 15 months, prompting NATO to up its guard. Prepping and probing.

Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

The further we get away from the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the more I become convinced that Michelle Obama standing on that stage saying, “When they go low, we go high,” was a death knell. That is not and never has been how politics actually works.

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe.

Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes.

Climate change set the table for Los Angeles wildfires. Not a “cause” as most people mean, but a definite contributor.

Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.