December 23rd is Festivus, a day to air your grievances! It’s a great day.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his annual Festivus Report detailing wasteful government spending.
The 2022 report totals $482, 276,543,907 in waste. The press release points out:
On Twitter, Paul said he could devote a whole bunch to Fauci.
Look at the last item.
The National Science Foundation gave Georgia Tech researchers $118,971 to see “if a real-life Thanos could actually snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.”
In the movie, Thanos sports an “Infinity Gauntlet,” which gives the wearer extraordinary powers merely by snapping one’s fingers. Inspired by the film, researchers at Georgia Tech convinced grant reviewers at the National Science Foundation (superhero fans themselves, one assumes) to give them $118,971 to study if a real-life Thanos could actually snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.The study ultimately determined wearing metal gloves while attempting to snap does not generate enough friction between one’s fingers to successfully create a snap. In their own words, “[o]ur results suggest that Thanos could not have snapped because of his metal armored fingers. So, it’s probably the Hollywood special effects, rather than actual physics, at play!”
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