Hey guys, how’s things? I am digging out from a loooo-oooo-ooong week. Long week. Oh our data is shit and the people who own the source data… misrepresented the quality during the design phase? Say it ain’t so! Everyone is surprised but me. So sure, we can do a crash project to clean it up. I hope your week was better.
I still wouldn’t watch. Although I did watch Joe’s 2018 Netflix special. I laughed a little. He’s still a good comedian.
I hear it could be yeast.
Coming to a city near you?
For some reason this reminds me of a joke about the only secure server being one locked in steel cage, thousands of feet underwater, and unplugged.
“I still wouldn’t watch.”
I would.
I would too, but if Joe Rogan hasn’t been exposed as a white supremacist yet, he will be soon.
He is moving to Texas so it must be true.
Me too. It’s the only debate I would watch.
I think I’m going to watch all of them. If they happen.
I’ll rely on you all to pick out the best parts.
Public health officials in the district of Cerme handle the bodies using full-body protective equipment, ensuring there’s no risk of exposure.
Okay, then.
As we have relentlessly hammered into our staff at the hospital, PPE is necessary but not sufficient for protection from infectious disease. As important is the discipline needed to put it on correctly, take it off correctly, and do your job correctly when it is on.
As I recall, the ebola outbreak at the Dallas hospital wasn’t due to lack of PPE at all, but poor discipline, especially in taking the PPE off.
I recall looking into a room with a C. diff. patient, and the nurse was fully garbed in PPE, and had her phone out and was poking and scrolling at the screen. Thus rendering her use of PPE much less effective in preventing her from catching or spreading C. diff.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-3.18.49-PM.png?resize=600%2C501&ssl=1
“I hope your week was better.”
I don’t know, ask yesterday for a better answer to that question.
Dan, you mendacious cunte.
“What this presidential election is about is whether the country’s going to move more in the direction of white supremacy or move more in the direction of a multiracial, constitutional republic based on the freedom and the democracy. That’s the proper frame, in which we now should put this election given what the president says, what he’s been doing — this long list of things. No sense going through the litany, but, you know, he knew in early February how serious the coronavirus was, but he repeatedly misled the American people. He said using an excuse and a lie, he didn’t want to spread panic.”
“Well, throughout his entire presidency and particularly during this presidential re-election campaign, he’s been trying to get people panicked,” he continued. “Panicked about dangerous people moving into the suburban neighborhood, panic over immigration. He’s asking us to believe that when it came to the coronavirus, he just didn’t want to spread panic. Anybody who believes this will believe that rocks grow, and we’re going to find out how many people are dumb enough to believe that. I’d like to think that most people in the country recognize it for what it is, and that is an excuse, and it’s a lie, and it’s outrageous, and it’s very dangerous.”
“country’s going to move more in the direction of white supremacy”
How has this country moved more in the direction of white supremacy?
DRUMPF YOU IDIOT!!1!11!!! /CNN
Serious answer:
President Obama and his network of organizations along with the Clinton machine have been using a strategy of prodding racial division in order to drive electoral politics. Most obviously with their promotion of the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie, while using an FBI and DOJ investigation of the shooting to silence any counter narrative for a couple of months. When they finally came out and said that “Hands up, don’t shoot” did not actually happen, the battle lines were set.
They have been following that formula in various forms for decades.
But this go-around they have been more explicit about the naked partisanship of the whole thing. With the NYT openly talking about their attempt to push the Russia hoax to oust Trump, then openly talking about finding another method for ousting trump… which resulted in 1619. Everyone else followed the plan.
They gin up the black vote with “They gonna put ya’ll back in chains” type rhetoric every election. It is just louder and more violent this time around.
So they’ll get “white supremacy” by attacking whites and backing them into a corner until they have no choice. Great. That should really work out well for everyone.
https://mobile.twitter.com/tr00p3rr/status/1305610848191340545
“Vote for my guy or you’re a moron” is quite the appeal.
It’s interesting how, when freed from the need to appear objective and neutral, all former high-profile journalists turn out to be leftists.
Seems like most practicing journalists have been “freed from the need to appear objective and neutral” now, too. Which is fine, when they don’t pretend otherwise.
Brit Hume takes exception.
“Courage!”
The conscience of America, folks.
“The MIT team followed up the new observation with an exhaustive analysis to see whether anything other than life could have produced phosphine in Venus’ harsh, sulfuric environment. Based on the many scenarios they considered, the team concludes that there is no explanation for the phosphine detected in Venus’ clouds, other than the presence of life.”
Really? PH3 doesn’t sound that complicated.
It’s probably not aliens, but I think it’s at least plausible that microscopic life could live at one of the less extreme zones of Venus.
I’m no chemist, but there is non-biological reaction that can produce that chemical?
No idea, but I hope it is aliens.
Only about eleventybillion. Give or take.
It is also found in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, where it forms in the planet’s hot interior and reacts with other compounds in the upper atmosphere.[16] The abiotic synthesis of phosphine takes enormous amounts of energy, such as in the planet-sized convective storms of gas giants.[17] Phosphine has also been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, where its origin is currently unexplained. The paper announcing the discovery suggests that the phosphine “could originate from unknown photochemistry or geochemistry, or, by analogy with biological production of PH3 on Earth, from the presence of life”.[18][19][20] Venus lacks the high temperatures and pressures to form phosphine the way gas giants such as Jupiter do, requiring an alternate explanation for its presence.
Wikipedia’s blurb is enlightening. Basically, there are abiotic ways, but the energy required is extreme.
Lightening.
+1.21 gigawatts
Basically, there are abiotic ways, but the energy required is extreme.
Considering that Venus has surface temperatures in excess of 800F, I’m guessing it may well have extreme energy sources that could fuel this abiotic process.
And extreme pressure. Pressures like deep ocean on earth, but hot, acidic atmosphere instead of water.
Indonesia has identified over 222,000 cases and 8,841 deaths from covid so far this year, and the country recorded 3,141 new cases on Monday alone, with 118 new deaths for the day. The U.S., a much wealthier country than Indonesia, has identified over 6.5 million cases and more than 194,000 deaths, setting it apart from other wealthy countries that haven’t seen nearly as much devastation.
While a reluctance to wear masks to protect public health is sometimes seen as a uniquely American problem, there are anti-maskers all over the world in places like Germany, Indonesia, and France. Even Hong Kong has seen some anti-mask videos go viral, despite the fact that Hong Kong health officials were the earliest in the world to advise citizens to wear masks, issuing warnings as early as mid-January.
Let nothing divert you from the narrative.
The U S is “much wealthier” and a whole lot bigger. But let’s not muddy the waters with random facts.
The U.S., a much wealthier country than Indonesia, has identified over 6.5 million cases and more than 194,000 deaths, setting it apart from other wealthy countries that haven’t seen nearly as much devastation.
*Checks rates per million. Clears throat.*
Bullshit.
The guys at Skeptics Guide to the Universe have been on this jag. Novella is one of the preeminent advocates for science based medicine, so you would expect better. He is also extremely careful about avoiding partisan politics. But the winds are just blowing far too hard right now, and the TDS is slipping in. Every week for the last few months they have let slip a little more and a little more anti-Trump nonsense.
This week they went all in on “no other wealthy country has been nearly as bad as the US”. I posted the actual answer earlier… the US is in the middle of the pack of the hard hit “first world” nations. Right near France, better than the UK by quite a bit. Not so bad as Italy or Brazil.
But the people who are motivated compare raw case numbers between the entire USA and a little European country like Luxembourg. There are only 2 larger countries, and I don’t believe the numbers being reported from either. There’s no way the pandemic hits the massive cities of India and produces no active cases. It is just so utterly implausible.
But everyone is repeating the mantra. US bad. Everyone else good.
There’s no way the pandemic hits the massive cities of India and produces no active cases. It is just so utterly implausible.
While I’m sure their case numbers are way off, I’d be inclined to believe their death numbers (which are low) because the country is so poor and has such bad hygiene that I’d be surprised if very many people in the high risk groups survived long enough to get COVID. It’s no surprise to me that the hardest hit countries all seem to have decent to good healthcare, those are the countries that were able to keep the people at risk alive where other countries would have seen them die previously.
“But masks are a relatively inexpensive public health measure that can literally save lives.”
I guess he hasn’t looked on Amazon.
the comments on that gizmodo article are about as rational as you’d expect.
What this presidential election is about is whether the country’s going to move more in the direction of white supremacy or move more in the direction of a multiracial, constitutional republic based on the freedom and the democracy.
Wheeeeee!
Well we probably are, but not for the reasons you think. The behavior BLM et al has likely been a boon for the white nationalist types
Drumpfler done put e’rybody at risk.
Reiner said, “Negligence homicide. What else could you call an act that, because of its negligence, results in the death of others? If you have a mass gathering now in the United States in a place like Nevada or just about any other place with hundreds or thousands of people, people will get infected, and some of those people will die.”
He continued, “There has been a lot of talk about over whether the president played down the risks of this virus to his followers and the country as a whole. And you have to just look at what is going on now to understand that. If you took this virus seriously, you would never hold an indoor rally or almost any rally now and particularly one that doesn’t enforce very strict rules on masks. People will die as a consequence of this. I think that Nevada has a law right now limiting gatherings to more than 50 people. So the president is defying that. Make no sense.”
He added, “The virus doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not. The virus doesn’t care what party you belong to. If enough people contract the virus — and at a gathering like this, they will — some people will die.”
“…people will get infected, and some of those people will die.” Like it has been since viruses found us to be excellent hosts.
“I think that Nevada has a law right now limiting gatherings to more than 50 people.” Not a law, but okay.
“The virus doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not. The virus doesn’t care what party you belong to.” So why the pass on BLM/rioters/etc? I doubt they have ‘strict’ mask rules.
Their refusal to condemn the BLM riots proves that the gathering bans and the mask requirements are just a cudgel they like to use to brutalize their political enemies, no more no less.
I should think that CNN would be thrilled about large Trump rallies, since attendees will infect each other and their deplorable friends, associates, etc., and will all die off in droves, paving the way for a Biden victory.
Except they know damn well no one is going to die.
Well they are still trying to beat the drum that Sturgis has led to bodies in the streets. Notice how quietly they backed off that “study” about it being a super-spreader event.
The Media doesn’t need to be thrilled because their sycophants in Hollywood are doing that for them.
If you have a mass gathering now in the United States in a place like Nevada or just about any other place with hundreds or thousands of people, people will get infected, and some of those people will die
I would assume that any gathering with hundreds of thousands of people probably results in some people dying in car crashes on their way to/from the event. Is that reason enough to cancel big gatherings?
I guess everyone should be Biden their time in the basement until our robot overlords create a perfectly safe utopia
Five confirmed deaths from Sturgis
1 the commie cough
4 in traffic accidents
So… statistically you’re 4 times more likely to die of a traffic accident than COVID!!
#sciencebitches!
I’d love to see Rogan do an in studio debate. It will obviously never happen, but it would be far better than the “debates” they put on. Rogan is an excellent interviewer, I’d imagine that he would do a great job.
Especially when Groper Joe comes out with gems like this.
That wasn’t cut up and pieced together? Good God that is just sad to hear.
The corn pop animated one is awesome.
I’m starting to think he hired Bush II’s speech writers.
“The idea was that the cost of cooling computers would be lower if they were under water.”
So a hundred years from now, Silicon Valley will be in Antarctica?
New Netflix Movie Actually Murders Puppies To Teach That Murdering Puppies Is Bad
Biden Getting Excited As Segregation Coming Back Into Style
Ah the bee: “I thought about just making a documentary where I didn’t actually murder puppies to make the point, but it just wasn’t powerful enough,” said director Amélie Le’Charpentier (who is, by the way, a woman of color and an immigrant, so think about that before you criticize her). “I drew on my own experiences having observed puppy murder a number of times and decided I would just drop anvils and pianos on them and stuff so you could see how terrible puppy murder is.”
Noooooope.
What if the stinky poisonous gas is detected in Uranus?
I feel bad for you, no narrowed gaze
I get so tired of the credulous scientific press. Always looking for a hook for their article, they’ll take any leap to get a headline.
If you read the actual article in Nature, it seems mildly questionable if the even found the phosphene. There’s a ton of stuff about using algorithms to pull the signal from the noise, clean up interfering absorption lines, etc. that make the “it is definitely this one molecule” conclusion at least mildly suspect until a custom instrument is on the job. And from there, the leap to “it must be life!” is huge.
I remember distinctly the announcement of the discovery that an experiment had found life on mars. They took a bit of soil, added some radio-labeled nutrients and heated it up a bit. It immediately released the radioactivity, indicating that microbes had eaten the nutrients.
Except it released the radioactivity too fast.
It turned out that it was chemistry, not biology.
Every one of these extraordinary claims should be met with skepticism. Life based on cyanide? Better get some perspective and further expert opinions instead of leaping to discussions of extra-terrestrial cyanide-based life.
Science journalism is perhaps even more pernicious than political journalism. It’s the worst when science journalism mixes with politics.
As important is the discipline needed to put it on correctly, take it off correctly, and do your job correctly when it is on.
I presume there is supposed to be some sort of decontamination process prior to removal. I cannot help wondering how effective it is.
The percent of people wearing the things correctly is probably about zero. I keep my totally useless neck gator on the center consoe of the car. Others use th dashboard, rearview or their back pocket. Never mind wearing them under the nose or even under the chin.
Biden can’t keeps his hands off his.
Then, there’s this helpful solution for the kiddies.
https://www.holleygrainger.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_6115-1024×831.jpg
I’m on the team doing COVID-19 tracheotomies. There is a person whose job is reading off the donning checks list and doffing checklist. Decon is basically taking off our disposable layer in the contaminated room, wiping our under layer with anti-viral wipes and performing hand hygiene in a substerile room before changing clothes. After being exposed to high viral loads since April and following the protocol I still haven’t contracted covid. The nurses working ICU covid units have all contracted covid, I assume because they get sloppy following protocol.
Gearing up for the post-election shenanigans.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is building an enormous legal operation in anticipation of November’s election which is expected to shatter turnout records and will rely on mail-in ballots more than ever before, the New York Times reported.
Biden’s campaign has described the operation as the largest election protection program in the history of any presidential campaign, and senior campaign officials said that the move was necessary to preserve the integrity of the election in response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting, the Times reported.
Dana Remus, Biden’s general counsel, will oversee the developing operation alongside Bob Bauer, a former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama, according to the Times.
This is just going to be a complete cluster of a Fall/Winter.
I really hope I’m wrong, but I can’t think of a single way in which this doesn’t become a complete shit show.
I guess the only way it ins’t completely insane is if Trump loses and those who voted for him say “Well, that’s the game, see you in 4 years”.
the largest election protection program in the history of any presidential campaign
“We intend to steal this election fair and square”.
expected to shatter turnout records
Battlespace prep for coming up with enough ballots to make sure the Right Result is reached. Those precincts won’t post 110% turnout by themselves.
???
It is pretty brazen how they are just doing it right out in public.
Start a riot… deny that it exists. Then blame the other side for the damage.
Institute universal mail-in ballots. Mail ballots to all residents, whether registered voter or not.
Begin telling people that Trump will appear to win on election night, but it will actually wind up a Biden landslide after mail in ballots are counted.
Begin complaining about delays in ballot collection before the first mail ballot is even sent out, just to prepare the ground for the need for ballots to come in after the deadlines.
They really are telegraphing their intentions to steal the election
“His monthly expenses total almost $98,000, including 18,279 for his mortgage on his luxury, $5,651 for groceries, and $3,393 for laundry and cleaning”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731063/Jeremy-Renner-claims-pandemic-cost-MILLIONS-court-documents-reveal.html
Stop washing your clothes in bottled water.
That’s the salary for his laundress.
More proof of Trump’s grotesque mishandling of this pandemic.
Some people just can’t handle money.
Death from the bench
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, sided with plaintiffs that included hair salons, drive-in movie theaters, a farmer’s market vendor, a horse trainer and several Republican officeholders in their lawsuit against Wolf, a Democrat, and his health secretary.
The Wolf administration’s pandemic policies have been overreaching, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights, Stickman wrote in his ruling.
The governor’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus “were undertaken with the good intention of addressing a public health emergency,” Stickman wrote. “But even in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered.”
Whaaaaaa?
It’s for your own good!
Nice link.
+ 1 comorbid link
Five bucks says the appeals court will let the governor continue the lockdown while the appeal is being considered.
Ill put down another five bucks that Roberts finds some hidden clause and strikes it down.
This is Trump’s saving grace. For the most part his judicial nominations have been good.
Not starting or expanding wars and no significant gun control have been my big pros for Trump.
+1 bump stock
Voided.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/09/14/bump-stock-10th-circuit-court/
“‘You watch, it’ll get cooler.’ Donald Trump hits back when California governor Gavin Newsom tells him ‘climate change is real’ as they meet for talks on wildfire crisis under smoke-filled sky”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8732283/Donald-Trump-calls-forest-management-fires-Gavin-Newsom-tells-climate-change-real.html
“Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of being a ‘climate arsonist’ whose failures on global warming are the real threat to the suburbs – as he slams president on west coast wildfires, midwestern floods and coastal hurricanes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731581/Biden-says-Trumps-climate-denial-real-threat-suburbs.html
Aren’t we entering a solar minimum?
The shocking thing is how effective the raving lunacy is.
We are deeply in the solar minimum, at the end of Cycle 24 and just beginning Cycle 25. But 25 is taking longer than usual to start up, and the minimum has been longer and deeper than usual.
Now that’s how one euphemisimism’ses.
“South Dakota Attorney General reported hitting a deer while driving home from a GOP fundraiser when he actually struck and killed a 56-year-old man, investigators reveal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731799/South-Dakota-AG-says-wasnt-drinking-fatal-crash.html
WTF?
“The AG later clarified his statement, claiming he meant to report ‘hitting a dear.’ ‘The person I hit,’ he told reporters, ‘was by all accounts a loving son, husband and father, and I wanted to emphasize the depth of the loss his family must be feeling. It’s just unfortunate that the press didn’t recognize the homonym.'”
Bravo! You write for the Bee, don’t you?
Depends. Will their check clear?
They may ask to use this, it’s perfect. I wonder what the going rate is.
“I hit my beer. Er, ah, I was shifting gear.”
He told the truth, he wasn’t drinking at precisely the moment he hit the victim, he paused from his red Dixie Cup to catch his breath, squint his eyes and shake his head.
WTF indeed.
Reading between the lines, it sure seems like the victim was drunk too. He had crashed his truck into a hay bale in the ditch earlier and had to get family to drive him the half mile home. Then he was going back to his truck later when he was hit.
No idea what the fuck is going on in SoDak, but I’d bet everyone did stupid things.
*ps. Who voted for that creepy fuck for AG?
Nice link.
Try it now
“Michael Cohen’s daughter Samantha, 24, recalls ‘creepy’ encounter with Trump when she was 15 and says he appeared ‘interested in younger women’ after he allegedly ogled her and called her a ‘piece of a**'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8730957/Michel-Cohens-daughter-Samantha-recalls-creepy-encounter-Trump-15.html
Shit that never happened.
Cohen’s daughter sounds about as reliable when it comes to the truth as her father. The always apple didn’t fall too far from the sleazy tree there it looks like.
the sleazy apple
What the hell?
I used to go to the Sleazy Apple for drinks when I was in college.
She is very pretty.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/michael-cohen-daughter-samantha/
Yep, very pretty.
I’d embrace her body.
Hot/crazy matrix violation incoming
If only we had pictures or video of him being creepy with young women.
Yeah, sure…
Progjection. Always progjection.
As usual, it’s not something that I believe Trump incapable of doing, but yet again the circumstances make it hard to believe. So Trump did this and Cohen just shrugged and kept working for him for another seven or eight years?
^^^^
Thank you.
I have a SF quality conversation /interaction brewing in my head here.
But her dad posting a picture of her in lingerie is totally not creepy.
I went to college with a guy from Long Island who called hot girls cuntes. “Ooh, look at her, she’s a cunte”. So it wouldn’t shock me if Trump calls women a piece of ass. Didn’t he say that about Ivanka once?
In my iphone, my gf is “A hot piece of ass”. It never fails to amuse me.
” hey Siri, call a hot piece of ass”
One of our stupider rows occurred when wifey discovered that I was using this Stranglers song for her ringtone – https://youtu.be/B_GYLSlZ9Io
I’m using Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone for my wife’s ring tone.
Holy shitsnacks!
I feel better about using this now
https://youtu.be/1v1iZUiBJiQ
Heh
My one foray in to custom ringtones was
Her calling me:
Me calling her:
I can’t believe she hasn’t killed me.
^^ This guy gets romance. ?
Speaking of mask theater…
The other day, I saw somebody wearing a face shield like this one
Tell me that protects anyone from anything.
That protects anyone from anything.
It’s an entirely different thing, altogether.
It’s an entirely different thing.
It’s an entirely different thing
Over Macho Grande?
No, I’ll never be over Macho Grande.
It might somewhat protect other people if the wearer sneezes or coughs unexpectedly, that’s about it.
…or vomits…
It works just as well as all the other mask.
^
I guess it protects other people from your spittle if you’re a moist talker… but beyond that? no.
It looks like they are wearing their sunglasses on their chin.
That protects anyone from anything.
Okay. I feel reassured.
It’s just as effective as most of the masks people are wearing.
I wonder what an honest report of this hooey would be, you know, from not-BBC. Something like “All of Orkney’s electricity comes from wind and solar power because nobody fucking lives there“. Or “We have been able to run really well on what most land-based data centres consider an unreliable grid, but can we scale this shit up to meet real-world needs?”
Wind power? In the Orkneys? The hell you say.
They may well be a net exporter of electricity, but that doesn’t mean that they get electricity from wind and solar 24/7/365. Maybe they do, but I doubt it.
I’m sure a big enough battery would store all the excess enery from their sunny day for the calm day later on in the year.
The marketing department is working on a very large bunny for the advertising campaign.
The wiki article on Orkney says:
In other words, a bunch of islands in a rather windy part of the world manage to generate electricity from wind power in excess of the total amount of power they use per year. This is like bragging that a small town in the desert with a large solar plant produces more than 100% of its net power from renewables, in other words it is an empty and useless stat.
To expand a trifle:
They are connected to the main grid, and “net” power means that there is power going both ways. The unasked q
Stupid keyboard.
Ahem. The unasked question is “How much power do you take in from the grid, because your local renewable sources do not supply all the power you need 24/7/365?”
President Cartoon Villain is murdering the planet
A longtime climate change skeptic has been appointed by the Trump administration to help run the federal agency charged with producing “much of the climate research funded” by the government, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
David Legates, who was a professor at the University of Delaware before being tapped by the administration, will serve as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s deputy assistant secretary of Commerce for environmental observation and prediction, according to the Post, which said the climate change skeptic will report directly to acting NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs.
CNN has reached out to Legates on the reported appointment.
The Post said Legates formerly served as Delaware’s climatologist but was “forced out” because of his “controversial views” on the issue.
The newspaper said that Legates “had come under pressure from then-Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D), because of his fossil fuel industry-funded research casting doubt on the science showing that burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels is the main factor behind heating the planet and would lead to dangerous effects such as sea level rise and extreme weather events.”
Legates spoke about some of his views during a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee in 2019, claiming that carbon dioxide isn’t the only thing contributing to changes in the planet’s temperature.
“Carbon dioxide is not this magic knob that decides the temperature of the planet. In particular, there’s an awful lot of other things that happen with it, too. The plant does not warm like a greenhouse, that’s simply pure radiation balance,” Legates testified during the hearing.
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Climate scientists largely agree that carbon dioxide is warming the planet, and that human activity, like the burning of fossil fuels for energy, has increased the gas to dangerous levels. Other gasses, like methane, are also responsible for some of the human-causes warming we see today.
NOAA “oversees weather forecasting, climate research and fisheries,” according to the Post, and “has until now continued its climate research and communications activities unfettered by political influence,” unlike other parts of the administration, like the Environmental Protection Agency, that have “dismissed and sidelined climate scientists or altered their work before publication.”
“Carbon dioxide is not this magic knob that decides the temperature of the planet” Crazy talk.
Now the last bastion of unpoliticized SCIENCE has been overthrown. We’ll all be burnt to a crisp.
his fossil fuel industry-funded research casting doubt on the science showing that burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels is the main factor behind heating the planet
Now do government-funded research showing that more government is needed to bring the unruly climate to heel.
Damn straight! Why it’s up from 0.03 to 0.04% of the atmosphere!
It’s dangerous out there, people. Stay safe!
It’s so stupid. Dangerous why? Even if it is warming the planet, which is far from proven, we’re in an ice age, so who cares?
In a year or two we’ll be exchanging our cloth masks for oxygen tanks and re-breathers!
Global temperatures have risen during the decades of fire suppression in the western US. Conclusion, fire suppression causes global warming. Don’t argue. It’s science.
Animal, great start to your story!
Thanks!
“Corn bread , mash potatoes, gravy and fried chicken cupcakes”
https://twitter.com/__Aquaa/status/1305141114861690880
That looks pretty good actually.
Needs more gravy.
Correct, as per usual.
I would eat those. I just dined on chopped up chicken tenders mixed into a bowl with a can of chicken-corn chowder, sharp cheddar, sour cream, leftover mashed potatoes, and crumbled breakfast sausage. Those cupcakes are fully in my wheelhouse.
I ate here Saturday:
https://www.thelicking.com/
I order iced tea and it was so sweet it I couldn’t drink it. The waitress said the drink with the least amount of sugar is Coca-Cola. I think I got diabetes just from walking in there. I don’t think I was their target demographic.
Now I really want conch fritters.
The shrimp were really good. The red velvet waffles were also pretty tasty.
*blech*
My spouse wants to find the “Turkey Dinner” candy corn that are supposed to be in Target soon.
I said, “you know they’re going to taste awful. So why?”
I guess Limited Edition Gross Flavors is something that must be experienced.
Capitalist degeneracy has gone too far!
You know that cramping pain you get at the corners of your mouth when you see something unspeakably delicious? I’m getting that right now.
Having now seen the grainy video of the shooting of the two police officers in Compton, is the alleged assailant an 8-year-old? The shooter in the video looked very, very short.
He was also a very strange runner. I’m predicting it was a midget hit.
Is that you Leona Helmsly?
Are you saying contract killing is for little people?
I figured it was Gary Coleman.
It was at the train station, so there’s that.
Faux said that the camera, being a fisheye, distorted the shooter’s size.
That waddling-running gait sure makes the shooter look like a little-person though.
Wouldn’t that also distort the car’s size? the kid/midget isn’t even as tall as the top of the door frame, regardless of whether there is distortion or not the scale between the car and the kid/midget is the same.
Wouldn’t that also distort the car’s size? You would think. It could be a smallish portly woman too. Just generalizing, but I bet a thuggish man would have emptied the pistol before running.
At least eight people who have refused to wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic have been forced to dig graves for people who died from covid-19 in the province of East Java, Indonesia, according to a report from the Jakarta Post.
Mask hysteria folks masturbate furiously.
Unsubstantiated rumors
As of Friday, there were at least five wildfires burning in Clackamas County, including the major Riverside and Beachie Creek fires. Most of the county is under an evacuation order.
But some residents living in those evacuation zones aren’t leaving their homes and are instead staying to “defend” their property.
Residents have crafted homemade signs lining wire fences and hazy, yellow-tinged streets, all warning looters that they would be shot.
“Looters get shot,” many of them threaten.
Unsubstantiated reports about looting and political groups causing intentional damage have divided county officials. In an emergency Board of County Commissioners meeting deciding whether to impose the curfew in Clackamas County, Capt. Jeff Smith of the sheriff’s office said a sergeant “on the street” had reported that members of Antifa, a broad term for groups of far-left protesters, were armed with chainsaws and intentionally toppling telephone poles to start further fires.
He also said there were confirmed reports of looting near the outskirts of the county, though the sheriff’s office has not publicly confirmed this.
Several members of the board were skeptical of Antifa’s involvement. Smith said only the one sergeant had been told by informants that Antifa members were intentionally setting fires, though he presented the information as fact.
The FBI’s Portland office said last week that “reports that extremists are setting wildfires in Oregon are untrue.” Neighboring Oregon sheriff’s offices have debunked reports that Antifa is intentionally setting fires.
They just don’t want people to overreact.
Why the scare quotes around “defend”? Also:
“In an emergency Board of County Commissioners meeting deciding whether to impose the curfew in Clackamas County, Capt. Jeff Smith of the sheriff’s office said a sergeant “on the street” had reported that members of Antifa, a broad term for groups of far-left protesters, were armed with chainsaws and intentionally toppling telephone poles to start further fires.”
There are easier ways to start fires in a dry forest.
Why do you think Profa is smart enough to know that?
There were looters in the recent fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the Bay Area. I don’t know why it’s crazy for people to be concerned about it and why “defend” needs to be in scare quotes. It happens a lot in situations like this, probably since the dawn of civilization. Most likely it’s local tweekers looking for something to sell to support their habit rather than Antifa coming in from the urban areas.
There was a TREMENDOUS amount of looting during SuperDuperStorm Sandy. All of the cell phone stores, sneaker outlets, and fast food joints were stripped clean in The Rockaways; just over in 5 Towns (Lawn Guyland) some folk backed a 24′ box truck through the front windows of Best Buy and made off with quite a bundle. Our neighborhood (largely city employees) was quick to stop and question anyone who wasn’t immediately recognized.
Unsubstantiated reports about looting
Next paragraph:
confirmed reports of looting
Also, how can they know this unless every arsonist has been caught?:
The FBI’s Portland office said last week that “reports that extremists are setting wildfires in Oregon are untrue.”
NH state policy warn drivers to not hang masks from rear view windows.
State police are urging drivers not to hang face masks from their vehicle’s rearview mirror because it could be a safety hazard.
Face masks dangling from rearview mirrors have become a common sight as drivers keep their masks handy for when they leave the vehicle. But officials warn that the practice could be dangerous.
“Dangling anything from your rearview mirror, blocking any of your field of vision, increases your risk and increases the chance that you may have a crash,” said Pat Moody, of AAA Northern New England.
COOL LINK BRO!
I was wondering when a police agency was gonna start down that money path.
You can have my fuzzy dice over my dead body.
Leave the dreamcatchers alone, you bigots!
I hang mine from my shift knob. Not a euphemism.
So, what you’re saying is, is I have a chance?
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, viewed as a rising star in the national GOP and a possible 2024 presidential contender, plans to visit New Hampshire Oct. 15 as the featured speaker at a state Republican Party fundraiser, a party source told WMUR.
Doh! Now I finally realize why that AG hitting a
deerperson is getting national coverage! Of course!Reading “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson, and on page 130, I saw what how our Betters in the Political Caste TM view us, and what is behind the masking and anti-social distancing.
A white mother in civil rights era Mississippi saw her daughter had “touched the hand of a little black girl”. (The author oh so discreetly says the mother used the n-word, without actually saying either the word itself or the euphemism.)
The mother starts frantically scrubbing her daughter’s hand with a Brillo pad. ” ‘They have germs,’ the mother said. ‘They’re nasty.’ ”
And that, my fellow Glibs, is how the political class pushing the C19 panic view us great unwashed masses. And they want us all to be aware that, and treat each other as if, all us proles are Untouchables, Dalits, or honorary blacks.
That is the contempt in which they hold us.
Sort of an Eloi-Morlock thing? I’m actually pretty much okay with that. The Morlocks were ugly and Vitamin-D deprived, but they still got the better end of that relationship.
I think it’s reversed, since they don’t come out of their houses.
Interesting thread:
https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1305165382710427652
An ancap would have answers. I might not agree with all of them but they would have them.
The leftists don’t have an answer because what they intend is complete destabilization followed by a total seizure of power.
ARGLEBHARGLEENACTMYLABORWHARGLEBARHLE!!!1!
When my son was about five, he told me he had a plan to take over the world by killing all the police, and replacing them with his own. These guys are operating at about the same level.
And yes, he’s grown up now, is a great kid, and has given up his plans for world domination. As far as I know.
You had your opportunity to stop him. Now we’re all doomed.
Nah, it’ll be OK. Young Joseph Adolph Mao is a kind-hearted lad, he wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Good.
Less competition.
And yes, he’s grown up now, is a great kid, and has given up his plans for world domination. As far as I know.
The best plans are known only in their execution. He may be a model individual, or it may all be his own Operation Fortitude as he plans a D-Day invasion. Only time will tell.
https://twitter.com/Jared_Carrabis/status/1305521504365535232
It does seem like some shit from South Park.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1305620653656158208
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I think I could just sit with a beer and watch this stuff for a while.
Best reply:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jared_carrabis/status/1305521504365535232
Not really relevant, but funny.
What’s amazing to me is they act surprised when they use force and someone responds with force.
Yeah
I can’t decide if it’s concerning or relieving.
I’m sure they believe they aren’t using force by blocking traffic. They also do a lot of the “I’m not touching you” bullshit when they were younger I’m sure.
Y’know, that “not touching you” shit ended really quickly when they got a fist to the nose.
Bully.
*snickers* Something something Paulistas! 97% of people identify as libertarians!!!
This is why I installed a dashcam. If I have to run someone over, I want some evidence of what they were up to.
I’m gonna think about that for a bit.
I’m surprised he was wearing a red cap.
Well, he wasn’t at the end. ?
Buying this book.
LOL, she knows how to twist the knife
Nobody show the trans activists Dressed to Kill or Psycho either
Dayum. That’s what they call leaning in.
Wasn’t that the plot of Dressed To Kill?
That’s what you can do when you have “fuck you” levels of money.
I am now a fan.
Yeah, you gotta like someone who sticks to their guns and tells them to pound sand like that.
Too bad she can’t write well.
Yes that is a purely subjective assessment and I should note that I have only read a couple chapters of one of her books.
Still I was far from impressed.
It’s middling stuff at best.
Still better than 90% of the YA stuff out there.
I didn’t say I was going to read it.
Fair enough.
I don’t pay much attention to her, but is she not a radical feminist? Maybe it’s just the transgender crowd saying so, but I don’t know.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SonicDeanBoom/status/1305562289127346176
Joe has roaches. ?
Now it’s just getting weird.
*giddily awaits the next H&H extended universe episode*
Unconfirmed reports describe Joe arriving in this van.
Joe’s new speech writer
https://youtu.be/sRzpG59MKWo
Joe learned about roaches.
A lockdown lament from some Roches, 40 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQMwU3TrVE0
https://mobile.twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1305618540611825665
Don’t
Play
In
Traffic
You stupid fuckers.
People aren’t going to put up with that much longer.
Get that guy some free health care, stat.
It’s time to start covering these assholes with skunk.
What can’t you get at Amazon?
I used to buy fox pee for fox sets when I was trapping, helped cover my own scent near the set. Nasty stuff. Never bought skunk scent though.
Damn, how bad does one need to kill that deer? ?
Ya know, tossing bottles of that out the window onto protesters would probably be effective at getting them out of the road.
Mostly peaceful driving.
Sigh… just received a speed-camera ticket from a newly installed panopticon in my neighborhood. $50 for going 36mph in a 25mph zone (that was 40mph until 2019). NYC is in the middle of a very self-inflicted budget crisis. A crisis so dire it necessitates a city hiring freeze (despite being 380 nurses shy of de Blasio’s promise of a school nurse in every public school) but they somehow have the money to keep installing these infernal electric tattle-tales all over town.
to be fair, they’re $50 closer to paying that specific one off.
The usual arrangement is a private entity owns and operates the cameras. They send you a ticket, and the city gets a cut of the proceeds.
And we can still learn something from the Brits.
How are these tea-sippers out-freedoming us?!? Also, would a laser (of the type used by peaceful protesters to make police all sparkly) burn out the CCD on one of these Devil’s Daguerreotype Machines? Asking for a friend.
It may be a bit noisy, but a few seconds should suffice.
Does Mrs. DeBlasio still have her entourage?
“NEW: How Dems learned to stop worrying and love dark money.
The party used to rail against the post-Citizens United wild west of campaign finance, but has now mastered it. Will they follow through on promises to end the system if it helps them win?”
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1305506742340661253
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-used-rail-against-dark-money-now-they-re-better-n1239830
“These are not the droids you are looking for”
The answer to a headline with a question, or to the question, “Will politicians voluntarily give up power?”, is pretty much always “no”.
Dark Money? Pah!
Joe’s getting his money from the downtrodden and unemployed.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/09/13/who-are-these-unemployed-donors-contributing-nearly-half-of-democrat-group-actblues-massive-campaign-funds-n925065
I just signed up for a trade show/conference and noticed something peculiar. Roughly 65% of the speakers are female. Why is that peculiar? Because the profession is 80%+ male…
The men are too busy working.
Someone figured out that even in a male dominated field men would rather listen to a spiel from some eye candy than an old fat expert dude?
I like that theory. I may go with that one.
I’m not eye candy, but give me a day to prepare and I could make it entertaining.
Go on….
Since no one else was willing to say it. ?
Dude, I don’t present. I PERFORM.
+5 pharma rep of doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-votes-in-person-for-delaware-primary
Whelp, I guess everyone can vote in person now.
I’m fairly certain that everyone could have voted in person before this happened.
Oh, wait, did you mean that everyone must vote in person now?
So I was reading the responses to Gillespie’s rather silly tweet about Netflix’s kiddie porn, and I came across one from this person, and the bio says a lot about why Reason’s been circling the bowl:
Nothing screams “Reason intern” like pronouns in the bio.
Sigh… I really miss Liberty magazine.
I’m rewatching Anne Of Green Gables. Can we go back to them days? I’ll trade telecommunications and air travel for bustles, petticoats, and good manners.
When did you become Ted’s.
Modernity might be overrated. More chores = less civil unrest?
Alright, so everyone is apparently watching Monday Night Football even though they said they wouldn’t. Fuck it, I’m no Crusty but argue this, Drive By Truckers were better pre-Jason Isbell but Solo Jason Isbell is beter that DBT post Jason Isbell.