Critical Rationalist
@noncynic.bsky.social
Tech lawyer in practice for 40+ years. Pilot. Author. Veteran.
Philosophy of Science fan: Karl Popper.
Religion is irrational and dangerous.
Crypto is worse than tulipmania.
Political power based on lies (GOP, Russia, etc.) must be stopped.
Philosophy of Science fan: Karl Popper.
Religion is irrational and dangerous.
Crypto is worse than tulipmania.
Political power based on lies (GOP, Russia, etc.) must be stopped.
Ohio; Ditto!
My chunks are in a ziploc bag somewhere in my basement, and include a piece of the pipe that topped the wall. I found out later that the pipe is almost pure asbestos.
From an earlier trip (1971) I managed to grab a piece of the barbed wire from the original wall at Potsdamer Platz:
My chunks are in a ziploc bag somewhere in my basement, and include a piece of the pipe that topped the wall. I found out later that the pipe is almost pure asbestos.
From an earlier trip (1971) I managed to grab a piece of the barbed wire from the original wall at Potsdamer Platz:
December 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ohio; Ditto!
My chunks are in a ziploc bag somewhere in my basement, and include a piece of the pipe that topped the wall. I found out later that the pipe is almost pure asbestos.
From an earlier trip (1971) I managed to grab a piece of the barbed wire from the original wall at Potsdamer Platz:
My chunks are in a ziploc bag somewhere in my basement, and include a piece of the pipe that topped the wall. I found out later that the pipe is almost pure asbestos.
From an earlier trip (1971) I managed to grab a piece of the barbed wire from the original wall at Potsdamer Platz:
Kushner is the nepo equivalent of this guy, but with billions in dirty money...
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Kushner is the nepo equivalent of this guy, but with billions in dirty money...
![“With a narrowness, a prejudice, a blindness which in retrospect seem inconceivable . . . , [the German Right] hammered away at the foundations of the Republic until, in an alliance with Hitler, they brought it down. ... [T]he Third Reich was inaugurated in peacetime. . . . The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves.
“Many of them, perhaps a majority, did not quite realize it at that noon hour of January 30, 1933, when President Hindenburg, acting in a perfectly constitutional manner, entrusted the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler.
“But they were soon to learn.”
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yk3bwv3cq33onvcopzbwm6ec/bafkreigpkm4nn3adhalvrxazh2omznmh6wy3va6htal7nijpe6itx4ydmq@jpeg)
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate at the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate at the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag in the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag in the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag in the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is what Hitler was planning to build in Berlin. Note the "tiny" Reichstag in the lower right.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Megalomania and dictatorship always go hand in hand.
Ok, here's from Columbus OH today. About 5x bigger than the last one.
October 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ok, here's from Columbus OH today. About 5x bigger than the last one.
Is there a thread somewhere I'm missing?
FYI:
FYI:
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Is there a thread somewhere I'm missing?
FYI:
FYI:
Some things never change.
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Some things never change.
That photo could have been taken in Russia or Belarus.
Where masked secret police crush dissent.
Pic below (Minsk, Belarus) could have been taken here. Dictator Lukashenko lost the 2000 election bigly, but held onto power by using the military and brute force.
Where masked secret police crush dissent.
Pic below (Minsk, Belarus) could have been taken here. Dictator Lukashenko lost the 2000 election bigly, but held onto power by using the military and brute force.
October 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
That photo could have been taken in Russia or Belarus.
Where masked secret police crush dissent.
Pic below (Minsk, Belarus) could have been taken here. Dictator Lukashenko lost the 2000 election bigly, but held onto power by using the military and brute force.
Where masked secret police crush dissent.
Pic below (Minsk, Belarus) could have been taken here. Dictator Lukashenko lost the 2000 election bigly, but held onto power by using the military and brute force.
Uh-huh.
Sure.
His mouth spews poison every time he opens it.
Sure.
His mouth spews poison every time he opens it.
October 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Uh-huh.
Sure.
His mouth spews poison every time he opens it.
Sure.
His mouth spews poison every time he opens it.
![“With a narrowness, a prejudice, a blindness which in retrospect seem inconceivable . . . , [the German Right] hammered away at the foundations of the Republic until, in an alliance with Hitler, they brought it down. ... [T]he Third Reich was inaugurated in peacetime. . . . The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves.
“Many of them, perhaps a majority, did not quite realize it at that noon hour of January 30, 1933, when President Hindenburg, acting in a perfectly constitutional manner, entrusted the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler.
“But they were soon to learn.”
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yk3bwv3cq33onvcopzbwm6ec/bafkreie6imj4jvpxxpfxfmestiqiwwhaipzu7cjrky7ew2zqgjbu4fbbj4@jpeg)
Putin's running low on generals.
Seems like he's starting to just pick soldiers off transport trucks.
Seems like he's starting to just pick soldiers off transport trucks.
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Putin's running low on generals.
Seems like he's starting to just pick soldiers off transport trucks.
Seems like he's starting to just pick soldiers off transport trucks.
Looks like they changed the headline.
September 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Looks like they changed the headline.
Trump wants so much to be like Putin, whose executive orders ARE law.
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trump wants so much to be like Putin, whose executive orders ARE law.
Putin Jugend.
September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Putin Jugend.
!["With a narrowness, a prejudice, a blindness which in restrospect seem inconceivable ..., [the German Right] hammered away at the foundations of the Republic until, in an alliance with Hitler, they brought it down. ... [T]he Third Reich was inaugurated in peacetime . . . . The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves.
“Many of them, perhaps a majority, did not quite realize it at that noon hour of January 30, 1933, when President Hindenburg, acting in a perfectly constitutional manner, entrusted the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler.
“But they were soon to learn.”
William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yk3bwv3cq33onvcopzbwm6ec/bafkreidlzsvrtwetnwrrbajmcq6neihesdbuhyc67fh6f623d57wmhpyiq@jpeg)