Because, America

[sunday]

Perhaps the most illustrious victim of the "get woke, go broke" principle, but a sad end.

[Skywalkre]

9 hours ago, Rick said:

End of a great -- before it went politically correct -- magazine. Last issue I read was about ten year ago and could not believe the p.c. crap in it. As a kid in the 60's and 70's it was a great magazine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/national-geographic-lays-off-its-last-remaining-staff-writers/ar-AA1dbiir

The magazine isn't closing its doors.  They're simply making additional cost-cutting moves (the article mentions this is the most recent of several in recent years) by firing the writers.  The link notes future articles will be penned by (cheaper) freelancers or just by the editors.

The print element of the brand is likely to shutter its doors in the near future... but that's basically the trend of almost all print media/journalism these days.

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[NickM]

5 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

Good riddance.  At one one time my family had every issue from the mid '20s to the early '80s.  They were a treasure trove of useful information.  My mom gave me a years subscription about 13 years ago and I let it lapse because of the PC BS.  She let hers lapse, which she had kept for 60+ years, soon after I did.

Hang on to those, Tim! I'm sure we can find freaky weather, dying forests and fires and dying corals and endangered sea otters and whatnot, and see how everything survived or how we mere mortals took action that actually didn't help one darned bit.

Oh and...did NatGeo undergo an ownership change or leadership change (in the board of directors) in the last decade or two? I had heard that (like that bank in Silicon Valley) the board got taken over by woke wymmyn who were only interested in diversity and equity (and actually doing threat assessments was sexist/white supremacist)

[Tim Sielbeck]

2 hours ago, NickM said:

Hang on to those, Tim! I'm sure we can find freaky weather, dying forests and fires and dying corals and endangered sea otters and whatnot, and see how everything survived or how we mere mortals took action that actually didn't help one darned bit.

Oh and...did NatGeo undergo an ownership change or leadership change (in the board of directors) in the last decade or two? I had heard that (like that bank in Silicon Valley) the board got taken over by woke wymmyn who were only interested in diversity and equity (and actually doing threat assessments was sexist/white supremacist)

Unfortunately they're already gone.  My parents divested themselves of them in the early/mid '90s I think.  To much to move around.

From Wiki... "Until 2015, the magazine was completely owned and managed by the National Geographic Society. Since 2019, controlling interest has been held by The Walt Disney Company."

[sunday]

Another victim of Mickey the Great and Terrible, a.k.a. The Devil Mouse.

[rmgill]

10 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

From Wiki... "Until 2015, the magazine was completely owned and managed by the National Geographic Society. Since 2019, controlling interest has been held by The Walt Disney Company."

[NickM]

2 hours ago, rmgill said:

Well, Faw-wuk! Is Kathleen Kennedy involved with this,  too?

Next thing we know, we'll learn that Scientific American is also owned by Disney 

[sunday]

1 hour ago, NickM said:

Next thing we know, we'll learn that Scientific American is also owned by Disney 

Will not surprise me.

[R011]

6 hours ago, NickM said:

Well, Faw-wuk! Is Kathleen Kennedy involved with this,  too?

Next thing we know, we'll learn that Scientific American is also owned by Disney 

Not yet.  Give then time, though, and it will either be bought by Disney or BAE.

[NickM]

16 minutes ago, R011 said:

Not yet.  Give then time, though, and it will either be bought by Disney or BAE.

Hell Dave,  Scientific American is barely Scientific as it is.

[sunday]

5 minutes ago, NickM said:

Hell Dave,  Scientific American is barely Scientific as it is.

When SA ate the global warming swindle, hook, line and sinker, I realized there was a big problem coming.

[R011]

1 hour ago, NickM said:

Hell Dave,  Scientific American is barely Scientific as it is.

I get the impression it never was.

[sunday]

July 4th is coming

 

[Strannik]

 

 

[Murph]

 

[Murph]

So true, so very true:

[rmgill]

Yaay.

Taking my new can to the range this next weekend. I happen to have a sound level/DB gauge by virtue of my uncle. 
 

I really need to get a live cannon breech ring. Then I can celebrate properly. 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[urbanoid]

Roll tide!

[BansheeOne]

This really fits better here than in the Mass Shooting thread. I'm sure there's some appropriate movie still that could be posted, too.

 

[Skywalkre]

Not really sure where to put this one.  Saw this in my feed earlier in the week.  Refreshing to see a story of two pols that individually I don't care for actually working across the aisle and trying to get something done (and big business is opposed... so they may be on to something).

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The new power couple taking on Wall Street: J.D. Vance and Elizabeth Warren

They’re teaming up on bills that the industry’s biggest players despise.

Sen. J.D. Vance — the Trump-backing former venture capitalist — is trying to lead Republicans in a new cause: cracking down on big banks.

Following a Senate campaign in which he pledged to prioritize rural America over titans of industry, the Ohio lawmaker is using a seat on the Banking Committee to flex his populist bona fides, teaming up with Democrats including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Dick Durbin of Illinois on bills that the industry’s biggest players despise — while championing legislation that protects smaller banks.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/j-d-vance-senate-banks-00104432

I think most of us have seen the Tulsi Gabbard clip from Joe Rogan where she states that when she entered Congress she was basically told 'you don't work across the aisle'.  Every American should be furious when hearing that.  I've always thought that despite differences on various core issues there is still plenty of middle ground for Congress to reach and get something done (you usually see this with defense spending, for example).

It's still depressing that this current Congress was voted in with the number one concern being 'do something about inflation' and neither side has done a damn thing.

On a different note, anyone who follows Zeihan would recognize the below paragraph describing the current realignment going on with our political parties:

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Vance’s approach to the most powerful financial institutions — similar to pushes he’s made to strengthen rail safety requirements and curb airline fees — is the latest example of an emerging GOP shift as a new crop of Republican politicians challenge the party’s pro-business, free-market ideology. Fueled by former President Donald Trump, it’s upending conservative politics and stirring tensions within the party about how it approaches the economy.

Makes you wonder what D and R positions will look like in 5 years (Zeihan says these realignments take up to a decade and we're in year 7).

Edited July 10, 2023 by Skywalkre

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[rmgill]

Feh, they’re just jealous his ancestors got the hell out of eastern Europe before theirs did and managed to bypass all those uncomfortable wars, Nazis and Commies.