The Apotheosis of a Libertarian Community is an Out of Control HOA

Case in point, a massive survivalist bunker complex currently embroiled in litigation.

It sounds a lot like every Home Owner Association horror story that you have ever heard.

Row upon row of concrete bunkers with steel blast doors peek up from the rolling grasslands—like hobbit holes for the apocalypse.

There are 575 of them, clustered on a former munitions depot near South Dakota’s Black Hills and billed as “The Largest Survival Community on Earth.” The pitch: Ride out nuclear war, the next pandemic or societal collapse in relative comfort.

Yet for many residents, the dream has soured. The threat hasn’t come from Armageddon, but from friction that resembles a suburban homeowners’ association battle.

Lawsuits, countersuits and disputes are piling up over septic systems, property taxes, off-leash dogs and a growing list of community rules. The legal skirmishing has reached the state supreme court—twice. Promised amenities, including a restaurant bunker, a pool bunker and a horse-stable bunker, have yet to materialize. Guns have been drawn, and there have been offers to settle things with fists. The developer denies wrongdoing and says complaints come from a few malcontents.

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The doomsday enclave, known as Vivos xPoint, is the brainchild of Robert Vicino, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who had a vision in 1980: He needed to build a large underground structure to protect 1,000 people from a coming “life-extinction event,” according to the company’s website. He since has developed a global network of such communities.

In 2016, Vicino began working with local ranchers to convert the long-abandoned South Dakota property—far from “known nuclear targets” and “high-crime anarchy zones” (read: cities)—into a compound for “like-minded survivalists to ride out ‘the event,’” as Vivos puts it. Vicino later bought the property outright, according to his son, Dante, Vivos xPoint’s director of operations.

No bear problem this time, at least not yet.

Bad Day st the Office

There was a midair collision at an air show in Idaho.

Two F/A-18G Growlers collided, but all 4 pilots ejected safely.

Two E/A-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft collided during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show in Mountain Home Idaho on Sunday, in a mishap captured in dramatic videos. The four crew members of the aircraft, from Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129‘s NAS Whidbey Island-based Growler Airshow Team, were able to eject right after the collision and are being evaluated by medical personnel, according to media reports. The incident took place two miles northwest of the base, according to the 366th Fighter Wing’s Facebook page. The Growler Airshow Team puts on two-jet displays.

Video of the incident showed the one of the Growlers close in on the other from behind and then collide, striking the lead aircraft’s rear with its nose from above. They then became entangled together, nose up, and then down, before tumbling to the ground. Four small explosions from ejection seats blasting out of the falling Growlers can be seen before the parachutes of the four crew members opened up. The Growlers hit the ground, exploding into a ball of flames, followed by the crew members floating down in their parachutes.

The latest report is that the pilots are being checked out, but it appears that there have been only minor injuries.

What Took Them So Long?

The DoJ has finally filed charges against the owner of the MV Dali for the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

It's been pretty obvious that they f%$#ed up, on the day of the crash.

The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against a Singapore-based global shipping company and subsidiaries, accusing them of safety violations that led to the massive container ship crash that caused the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Prosecutors accused entities of Synergy Marine Group of fostering unsafe conditions by not maintaining proper systems aboard its ship, the Dali, and others in its fleet. Those lapses left the Dali unable to recover from a blackout of its systems and unable to veer away as it crashed into the bridge in the early hours of March 26, 2024, leaving six men dead.

The indictment, returned under seal in federal court in Baltimore last month, also alleges the company falsified safety inspection records and lied to investigators after the crash.

The company as well as the Dali’s technical supervisor, Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, face charges including counts of conspiracy; misconduct or neglect of ship officers resulting in death; violations of the Clean Water Act and Ports and Waterways Safety Act; and obstruction of an agency proceeding.

 

We Are F%$#ed

It looks like the collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is even more imminent than previously thought.

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system and was already known to be at its weakest for 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Scientists spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021 and know that the Amoc has collapsed in the Earth’s past.

Climate scientists use dozens of different computer models to assess the future climate. However, for the complex Amoc system, these produce widely varying results, ranging from some that indicate no further slowdown by 2100 to those suggesting a huge deceleration of about 65%, even when carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning are gradually cut to net zero.


The research combined real-world ocean observations with the models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty. They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse.

This would upend weather and climate in Western Europe and across the globe.

This is real end of the world stuff, and the actual situation is likely worse, since every major prediction regarding anthropogenic climate change has been too conservative.

It might happen in my lifetime. 

 

It Turns Out That Humanity is Worse than Radioactivity

At least if you are a wolf.

Despite the radiation, the wolf population surrounding Chernobyl has increased 7 fold.

The most expensive nuclear disaster in human history turned 40 on Sunday, but the consequences have been almost perversely benign for some of the region’s wildlife.

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Environmental scientist Jim Smith at the University of Portsmouth, who has studied this “Chernobyl exclusion zone” (CEZ) for over 30 years, told The Guardian last week that wildlife in this would-be radioactive wasteland has improved even as it’s become surrounded by war.

“Wolf populations are seven times higher than they were before the accident because there is less human pressure,” according to Smith, who noted that populations of elk, roe, deer, and rabbit have also flourished in the zone.

“The ecosystem in the exclusion zone is much better than it was before the accident,” Smith opined. “It’s been a very powerful demonstration of the relative impact of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which is not so big, and the impact of human habitation, which is devastating.”

Humanity is not good wolves, or other living things. 

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Evolutionary biologists at Princeton discovered something unique about this gray wolf population, which likely helped these predators carve out their new niche in the exclusion zone: mutations that appear to make Chernobyl’s wolves more resistant to cancer. 

This is not particularly surprising, though it is likely that there was a f%$#-ton of cancer on the way to this outcome. 

History Rhyming

The fact that private credit defaults in the United States hit 9.2% in 2025, sounds a lot like the leadup to money market funds "Breaking the Buck" in 2008.

The default rate among U.S. corporate borrowers of private credit rose to a record 9.2% in 2025, ​according to a report Friday by credit rating agency ‌Fitch Ratings.

In its monitor of 302 companies with outstanding private credit debt, Fitch recorded 38 defaults among 28 different borrowers. The 9.2% default rate in ​2025 follows a previous record 8.1% rate of defaults ​in 2024.

Smaller issuers with $25 million or less in earnings made ⁠up the majority of last year's defaults, which were diversified ​among sectors, according to the report.

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Most of ⁠the private credit loans were floating rate and tied to the federal funds rate, which has ​persisted at a high level over the past three ​years. ⁠Fitch pointed to this as a catalyst for last year's defaults.

There are a lot of companies out there who could only service their debts when rates were near 0%.

They are now insolvent, and there is a non-zero chance that this will take down the private credit firms.

This is not good. 

We Are Unbelievably Screwed

Remember the claims that in the next few decades anthropogenic climate change will result in increases in sea level?

Well, it's already here, at least according to this study in Nature.

Abstract

The impacts of sea-level rise and other hazards on the coasts of the world are determined by coastal sea-level height and land elevation. Correct integration of both aspects is fundamental for reliable sea-level rise and coastal hazard impact assessments but is often not carefully considered or properly performed. Here we show that more than 99% of the evaluated impact assessments handled sea-level and land elevation data inadequately, thereby misjudging sea level relative to coastal elevation. Based on our literature evaluation, 90% of the hazard assessments assume coastal sea levels based on geoid models, rather than using actual sea-level measurements. Our meta-analyses on global scale show that measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments (mean offsets [standard deviation] of 0.27 m [0.76 m] and 0.24 m [0.52 m] for two commonly-used geoids). Regionally, predominantly in the Global South, measured mean sea level can be more than 1 m above global geoids, with the largest differences in the Indo-Pacific. Compared with geoid-based assumptions of coastal sea level, the measured values suggest that with a hypothetical 1 m of relative sea-level rise, 31–37% more land and 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level. Our results highlight the need for re-evaluation of existing coastal impact assessments and improvement of research community standards, with possible implications for policymakers, climate finance and coastal adaptation.

It turns out that the climatologists were wrong.  It's worse than they have ever predicted.

History Rhyming

The delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities has hit 12.3%, almost 1 in 8.

This is higher than it was in the worst parts of the Great Recession. 

Fasten your seat-belts, we are in for a bumpy ride. 

The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) spiked by over a percentage point in January to 12.3%, once again the worst ever, and 1.6 percentage point above the worst moments of the Financial Crisis, according to data by Trepp , which tracks and analyzes CMBS.

The CMBS were sold to institutional investors around the world, such as pension funds, bond funds, insurers, etc. The banks that originated the loans are off the hook.

High vacancy rates in new fancy office towers allow companies to move from an old tower to a new tower when the lease expires, thereby upgrading and downsizing at the same time. This “flight to quality” is pulling the rug out from under older office buildings.

 This game of musical chairs is about fail catastrophically.

History Rhyming

While the market collapse of 2008-2009 came as a surprise to me, in retrospect, the signs were there.

They weren't big things, but an increasing number of little things.

Over the past few weeks, we have: 

• A stealth bailout of Wall Street by the Federal Reserve: Basically, they are shoveling money out the door using the Fed's repo (repurchase agreement) facility.  Basically selling assets overnight and buying them back in the morning for quick cash.
• Private Repo is skyrocketing as well: Meaning that there is a multi-Trillion game of musical chairs without any chairs.  Waiting for the music to stop.
• Home sellers are yanking their homes off of the market at an unprecedented rate, with listings falling to a 30 year low.
• Home buyers are walking away from signed deals at an unprecedented rate. ⅙ of all signed contracts were walked away from in December.

I cannot predict when, but we are careening toward a Lehman moment. 

It will appear that nothing is happening, and then it will happen all at once. 

We Are F%$#ed

Remember the 2008 melt-down? 

Well, it looks like one of the primary instruments of mass financial destruction is back, only this time, it has AI as its special sauce.

This is not gonna end well: 

If you weren’t alive, or weren’t news-cognizant, back in 2007 when the slow motion debt crisis all around us started to give way to The Great Recession, what was eerie was that it felt like you were always hearing about refinancing debt. You couldn’t turn on a TV, or click a page on MySpace, without someone offering to refinance your debt. This was because there was a huge—and for most people, hidden—market for things called mortgage-backed securities. This piece at the Onion captured the moment well.

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Mortgage-backed securities were everywhere in the economy, and the entities that owned them were the pillars of economic stability. When, slowly but surely, people defaulted on their mortgages in higher and higher numbers, the mortgage-backed securities that had been thought of as valuable were suddenly thought of as doodoo. In 2008, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and the world was plunged into chaos. In this way, over $10 trillion in wealth vanished in the U.S. during 2008 alone.

That crisis has come and gone. We’re in a different world, where things don’t work the same way. We have different problems.

Today, all U.S. economic growth is driven by investment in AI. Entire U.S. towns are banking on the idea that data centers being built in their communities will sustain their economies forever, or at least until some other type of business exists to create a different kind of boom. The real estate biz, which caused the 2008 crisis, is also being propped up by the data center business. AI is inescapable. It’s the defining fact of this economic moment. But in surveys, people who don’t work in AI largely doubt it’s good for the world.

With that in mind, Ian Frish at the New York Times’ DealBook newsletter wrote something a little unsettling yesterday. It seems that a company called QTS Data Centers, “the biggest player in the artificial intelligence infrastructure market,” is entirely owned by the investment company Blackstone. And Blackstone, it seems, is seeking to refinance $3.46 billion in QTS’s debt. DealBook apparently got a peek at an offer sheet showing that Blackstone is about to put this debt up for sale. 

Mark my words, the taxpayer will be on the hook for this bailout.

McDonnell's Widebody, Huh?

Not good So, a UPS freighter lost an engine on takeoff at Louisville and crashed, killing its three crew and at least 9 more on the ground.

By, "Lost an engine," I mean that the engine fell off.

The aircraft was an MD-11, basically a rebadged DC-10.

If this scenario sounds familiar, it's because a DC-10 crashed at Chicago O'Hare in 1979 after its engine detached from the wing.

That plane is cursed.

An engine on the UPS cargo jet that crashed in Louisville, Ky., this week fell off moments before the plane took flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday.

The jet, with a crew of three, plunged to the ground seconds later and erupted into flames as it careened through industrial buildings at the edge of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Tuesday evening.

At least 12 people died, officials said on Wednesday. A coroner was at the crash site on Wednesday, and the condition of some of the bodies could make it difficult to confirm their identities,  Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said. The identities of the victims have not been released.

At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Todd Inman, a member of the transportation safety board, said that, according to security footage, the plane’s left engine had detached from the wing while the aircraft was rolling to take off. 

History Rhyming

In any discussion of the 1929 stock market crash, the problem of excessive stock margin debt is brought up.

By increasing leverage, market instability and fragility were magnified, with disastrous results. 

Well, it's back!

In the long-term view of margin debt, such as in the chart above, it’s not the absolute dollar amounts that matter, but the steep spikes in margin debt from new high to new high overinlouinvoitemt1590 multi-month pereverage in the stock market has been spiking since April. In September, margin debt – the amount investors borrowed from their brokers – spiked by another 6.3%, or by $67 billion, from August to a record $1.13 trillion.

Since April, margin debt has spiked by 39%, the biggest five-month increase since October 2021; it was in early November 2021 that stocks began to tank, with the S&P 500 ultimately dropping by 25%.

The additional leverage – borrowed money flowing into the stock market – creates buying pressure and drives stock prices higher. Leverage is the great accelerator on the way up, but it’s also the great accelerator on the way down. Multi-month surges in margin debt, jumping from new high to new high, indicate excessive speculation and risk-taking and have invariably led to sharp selloffs:

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In the long-term view of margin debt, such as in the chart above, it’s not the absolute dollar amounts that matter, but the steep spikes in margin debt from new high to new high over a multi-month period.

I know that I have [predicted roughly 32 of the past 4 market crashes, but this ain't good.

 

H/T Naked Capitalism. 

Headline of the Day

Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident 

— The Nerd Reich, on the disaster that is Argentine President Javier Milei

It should be noted that Libertarianism has never worked.

Attempts have always devolved into allegations of fraud, infrastructure collapse, or bear infestations.

Even at the stage of the hunter-gatherer, which covers about 98% of human history, people did not exist alone.  They lived in communities, albeit small ones, and to be separated from the community was death.

I am sure that God is relieved that Libertarians believe that they have created themselves, but this does not make it true.

While it had been around for quite a bit longer, its basic concepts never progressed beyond the early stages of adolescent brain development. Libertarianism—which asserted that society would be better off with minimal government, laws, and taxes—succumbed after chainsaw-wielding Argentine President Javier Milei asked the United States for a massive economic bailout due to his catastrophic leadership.

Milei, a werewolf-clown hybrid in a suit who once hired a spirit medium to communicate with his dead dog, swept into office promising a libertarian-inflected miracle in Argentina. In an early preview of Elon Musk’s DOGE, he slashed government and social spending. Earlier this year, an essay published on the website of the libertarian Cato Institute mocked his critics as doomsayers who “warned that the profane self-described libertarian—who looks more like a still-touring ’80s rockabilly singer than the classically trained economist he actually is—would inflict on Argentina’s already-beleaguered economy ‘deep recession,’ ‘devastation,’ ‘economic collapse,’ and all sorts of other economic horribles.”

But the critics were correct. Instead of miracles, the self-described “anarcho capitalist” has delivered shocking disaster: collapsing institutions, chronic inflation, and the awkward realization that screeching about free markets doesn’t put bread on the shelves.

At the core of libertarian philosophy is the belief that they are all some sort of Randroid supermen.

They are not. 

Yeah, They Went There

It appears that Trump's Brownshirts arrested firefighters working on an active wildfire, because they are a bunch of terrorist thugs.

Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement Wednesday, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video.

Why the two firefighters were arrested is unclear. But a spokesperson for the Incident Management Team leading the firefighting response said the team was “aware of a Border Patrol operation on the fire,” that it was not interfering with the firefighting response and referred reporters to the Border Patrol station in Port Angeles.

Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state.

Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday about the confrontation.

It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.

Well, it was unusual for ICE to arrest people fighting an active blaze, but they gotta hit Stephen Miller's numbers now.

Worst timeline ever. 

Parasites and Ghouls

Have you heard about the latest financial "Innovation"? 

Betting on natural disasters.

They are called, "Catastrophe Bonds," and the banksters are aggressively lobbying regulators to allow ordinary folk (by which I mean, "Rubes.") to get in on the casino:

Asset managers specialising in catastrophe bonds are fighting a threat to curb retail access to the fast‑growing market, as surging sales of the bonds give small investors a way to bet on the likelihood of big natural disasters.

Twelve Capital, Fermat Capital and Plenum Investments are among the investment managers that had urged Europe’s financial markets watchdog, the European Securities and Markets Authority, to support keeping “cat” bonds in funds available to the broader public.

Sounds to me like, "Asset managers specialising in catastrophe bonds," are looking for a new way to f%$# retail investors.

It's kind of their whole business model.

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Insurers, governments and other issuers use catastrophe bonds to cut their exposure to the most extreme risks they face, such as a large hurricane or wildfire. As insurance companies’ liabilities have increased because of inflation and climate change, they have increasingly paid capital markets investors — along with traditional reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Re — to shoulder some of the risk.

In exchange, bondholders have been rewarded in recent years with higher returns than other fixed-income investments such as government bonds. But they are on the hook for claims after a large disaster.

Cat bonds have made their way into the hands of ordinary investors through funds marketed under Europe’s UCITS [The Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive] label. As of June, UCITS cat bond funds managed about $17bn in assets. That value has more than tripled since June 2020, when the funds held about $5bn, Plenum data shows.

> In a June report, Esma advised the commission to exclude cat bonds — as well as other alternative investments such as cryptocurrencies and real estate investment trusts, or REITs — from UCITS-labelled funds, with an allowance for indirect exposure to the excluded assets, up to a 10 per cent cap.

Esma raised concerns that demand for cat bonds could dry up after a big catastrophe or during a period of heightened risk, such as hurricane season. The regulator also said cat bonds were “structured in a way which is closer to insurance products than a traditional transferable security.”

This sounds a lot to me like money market funds before 2008, when they, "Broke the buck," (?They got government bailouts)

A money market fund is different from a money market account, with the former being a mutual fund which promises the ability to get out what you put in, while the latter is a federally insured tyupe of bank account.

"Financializing extremely risky operations makes them better and safer," said no one EVER!"

Keep this away from ordinary people. 

Headline of the Day

We Should, in Fact, Politicize the Tragedy

—Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, discussing the Camp Mystic flood tragedy in Texas.

The subjead is, "Holding people and policies accountable for disasters is essential," really says it all.

When people f%$# up like this, they should be held accountable, whether they are represent Kerr County, whose government refused money to upgrade their warning systems, the state Texas for their slow response, and Kristi Noem for refusing to approve money for FEMA to act until she came back for her weekend.

These are failures who should be held accountable.

As much as it pains me to quote The Atlantic, which has made its brand mindless contrarianism and unintelligible pseudo-intellectual arguments in service of the status quo, I am doing so because it gives me the opportunity to slam the magazine yet again.

You see, if you look at what is shown at the top of the web page, it's not the headline above, it's, "Who's to blame for the Camp Mystic Disaster?"

That means that if you look this up on any of the search engines, you will see it called by the latter, which pretends to be an both sides headline, when in fact the article (which you should read at this link, it makes good points, which will not generate any money for the magazine) is condemning the calls made by self-serving politicians for people to ignore their own misfeasance.

The wanking at The Atlantic continues. 

This is Why You Don't Do Bailouts

Gavin Newsom's bailout of PG&E following the Camp Fire in 2018, which created the California Wildfire Fund.

The alternative would have been bankruptcy and the likely public takeover of what is arguably one of the worst utilities in the nation.

Now, it looks like the damage from the Los Angeles fires could exhaust this fund.

This is what happens when you bail out a bad actor because they are, "Too big to fail." 

Insurance claims from the Eaton wildfire could “fully exhaust” a state fund that was set up to protect customers when a wildfire is caused by a utility company.

The devastating wildfire in Los Angeles killed 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 structures in January. One leading theory is that ageing equipment belonging to Southern California Edison, the primary electricity provider in the region, ignited the fire.

If the utility company is found to have been responsible for igniting the devastating January blaze, then the “financial health of the fund could be strained”, according to documents published by California’s Catastrophe Response Council, a group of lawmakers and members of the public who oversee the state’s wildfire fund.

California lawmakers established the state’s $21bn wildfire fund in 2019 in an effort to prevent the state’s largest utility companies from declaring bankruptcy if their equipment caused a fire. The fund is made up of money the utility companies contribute and a surcharge on customers’ utility bills.

Power lines and other utility equipment are a top cause of wildfires in drought-ridden California – and have sparked some of the state’s most devastating blazes, including the 2018 Camp fire that killed more than 80 people. Although investigators are still determining the cause of the Eaton fire, the utility company has been under scrutiny since the blaze broke out.

(emphasis mine)

PG&E should have been liquidated, and its assets taken over by the state of California, or it should have been reconstituted as a customer owned utility.

It was bad politics and bad policy. 

Boeing Can't Catch a Break

I am not sure if Boeing deserves to catch a break, but whether it is the fault of Boeing, or the airline, or a flock of birds, the first fatal crash of a B787 is yet another bump in the already pothole infested road that is Boeing.

Officials have revealed few clues that would explain why a London-bound Air India Boeing 787 went down about 30 sec. after liftoff from Ahmedabad airport, making a seemingly controlled descent into a residential area after failing to maintain altitude.

Air India Flight 171 (AI 171) was airborne for less than 30 sec., surveillance video from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport’ shows. The aircraft rotates near the end of Runway 23 and climbs for about 12 sec. It then levels off for a moment before entering a sudden but steady descent into a nearby area about 1 nm from the runway end. Its landing gear remained down throughout the entire flight sequence.

The pilots issued a mayday call to air traffic control immediately after liftoff “but thereafter no response was given by the aircraft to the calls made by ATC,” India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. Several news outlets in India said the mayday message included a description of “no thrust,” but Aviation Week could not independently verify the reports.

There were fatalities on the ground, and one survivor on the aircraft, who reported hearing a bang before the crash.

We should get more information over the next few weeks. 

Shut Up and Take My Money!!!

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I have seen the Chernobyl-Inspired Humidifier.

This is even better than the nose snot egg separator.

Also, if you have a 3D printer you can download the STL files and print your own.

You know, there are food 3D printers now, so one could print a Chernobyl birthday cake.

The unit is small 130 mm x 150 mm long x 120 mm , but one could theoretically scale this up larger in your printer.

Also, you can add fragrances, I would suggest RADIUM by Caliber perfume, should you so desire.

Only $80.10 with 3 choices of backlight color.

Such a steal!

As the maker notes:

By pressing the button on the body, a moisture sprayer is activated from the reactor zone along with lights, creating the effect of burning and smoke during the disaster. This is not only a visually impressive spectacle but also a practical function – the model can work as a night light and a humidifier, which is very beneficial for health.

If you feel that this is in bad taste considering the suffering that this brought, I would note that the seller is from the Ukraine.

You can find instructions, and links to the STL models here .

 

About that Plane Crash

Donald Trump's response to the mid air collision over the Potomac was to blame it on too many minorities working as air traffic controllers.

This is ludicrous, of course, but that doesn't matter for Trump and his Evil Minions™.

Trump's FAA has called bullshit on the anti-DEI narrative.

A preliminary report on Wednesday night’s plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. contradicts Donald Trump’s favorite DEI scapegoat.

An internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration found that in reality, the tower’s staffing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to The New York Times. There was only one air traffic controller to handle both helicopters and planes in the airport’s vicinity, a job usually assigned to two people.

Having to handle both types of air traffic can be complicated, the Times report states, because air traffic controllers can use different radio frequencies for helicopter and airplane pilots. In such cases, while the controller is communicating with pilots of both kinds of aircraft, the pilots may not be able to talk to one another.

Also, it appear that the helicopter was out of position.

There were two pilots flying the helo, and one of them, Andrew Eaves, was a white man.

The other pilot, a woman, has not had her name released at the request of her family, probably because we know that Trump would blame her, and his acolytes would then doxx the family.