Teleporting Crocodilians

In 2015 scientists from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany invented a teleporter system that scanned objects and beamed them to another location. They called it Scotty. Of course. It was NOT quite Star Trekian though. Hasso Plattner were relying on 3-D printing but they were def getting there!

Now Japan has a whole teleport station for people in Tokyo. With Trump and his ridiculously anti-science, anti-education, anti-intelligence, anti-facts administration and cult following, we’re hopelessly behind and may never catch up. The US is a planetary embarrassment. 

Oh wait, Tokyo’s Teleport Station is for trains and “Teleport” is actually a mashup of teletopia – a term coined by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to describe what 21st Century Japan would look like when its new broadband communications infrastructure was in place, and “port” because the area is a harbor.

Tokyo Teleport Station, located in Odaiba, is a key stop on the Rinkai Line and offers convenient access to DiverCity Tokyo. The station is wheelchair accessible and boasts a modern design with wooden pillars and a glass ceiling. It's also close to Venus Fort and Daiba Driver City Hall, making it an ideal starting point for exploring the area's attractions. Additionally, it provides easy connections to other stations like Osaki Station, which links to the Saikyo Line. (source) 

How terribly prosaic. Oh well, it was all pretty science fictionally thrilling for a minute there.
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Have you seen that Megyn Kelly, the rightwing journo who, in the past, occasionally diverged from Trumpian groupthink, is now splitting hairs over the degrees of heinousness in the sexual abuse of children?

In an interview:

…she claims, she knows “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything,” and “this person has told me from the start, years and years ago, that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person’s view, was not a pedophile.”

Kelly continued: “This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”
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“I think there is a difference,” Kelly continues, “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?” (source) 

This person who was “very, very close to this case” – do we know that he or she wasn’t also a pedophile or, as Kelly alternatively terms it “into the barely legal type?” Sounds like Megyn’s just blindly believing that this source is decent, credible, and wholly honorable. Fer fuck’s sake you dim bint, he’s hangin’ with an old man who sex trafficks teens and you’re going along with his assessment? Do you have a brain cell, a shred of decency or empathy anywhere in your being?!

Megyn Kelly has a daughter who is 13 or 14 years-old. Would she be fine and dandy with her child being sexually trafficked to men in their 40s, 50s, and 60s? Would she be cool with her 13 years old “dating” a 20 year-old?

Would Megyn Kelly be okay with Trump fucking her daughter or would she consider it unthinkable, inexcusable pedophilia? Would it be just an unfortunate kink? You know Republicans – evil obscenities and tragedies don’t actually exist or aren’t truly serious unless they specifically happen to themselves.

Jesse Duquette

Speaking of pedos (or “into the barely legal type” as Kelly would call him), there’s Trump’s first pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz.

“She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter,” The Times story began. “Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for ‘companionship’ with young women looking to make money.” (source) 

I hope the girl at least got braces after having to suffer through the horrors offing with Captain Fivehead.
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It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and we don’t.
~ Andy Borowitz
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In happier news, a small alligator has been rescued from the Charles River. 

WHAT the fuck was an alligator even doing this far north – in Boston, on the cusp of winter, fer fuck’s sake! And WHY was it taking a swim in the Charles? Maybe he teleported in via Tokyo or Potsdam?

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife has said that the little sweetie was either an escaped pet or had been cruelly, intentionally released by some fuckhead who didn’t know or care that they were sentencing the poor baby to death. BASTARD! Okay, MassWildlife didn’t word it quite like that.

I wonder if Cake would like a pet Alligator. Probably not. Also, I doubt we keep the house warm enough for him. As it it is, Cake has registered complaints and he has a fur coat! *sigh*