Occam's Rubber Spatula

Clear footage showing two Iranian missiles hitting a U.S. military ship near Jask Island. Iran had warned Washington to not break the order. The ship has since retreated but Iran has also hit a UAE ship. According to CNN, the Israel-USA contingent will attack Iran in 24 hours.

I think it's safe to say that we all have at least one friend like this. I laughed way too hard at this video. 🤣🧨🎇💥

So I guess the word has already gotten out. I regret nothing.

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

If you complained about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl don't celebrate Cinco De Mayo!!!

Tonight's experiment: Mushroom risotto with poached chicken breast and bull thistle stalk 😯🤔

🚨Long Island Child Therapist Pleads Guilty to Distributing Videos of Infants Being Raped Renee Hoberman, a children’s therapist on Long Island, just pleaded guilty to uploading, receiving, and trading videos of babies and kids getting raped. She admitted to sharing disgusting videos that showed tiny infants tied down and brutally raped by adult men while the babies screamed and cried in agony. This evil woman worked directly with children every single day as a so-called “therapist.” She now faces up to 20 years in prison. Pure evil. A total monster who betrayed every kid she was supposed to help.