[some filler content no one will read]
China about to become the third country to return samples from the moon.
Meanwhile, the Japanese skipped that shit and brought back asteroid samples.
Meanerwhile, the Eurpoeans have ambitions plans to bring back samples of garbage.
Meanererwhile, SpaceX didn’t quite stick the landing yesterday.
This monolith shit is getting old.
Study claims giant dinosaurs were caused by global warming. This is a great way to kids excited about making more CO2.
SPACE FORCE!!!
They will have a Hollywood studio fake it too?
Which showed great promise as a series, but they f*cked it up with political statements, and an unnecessary story line. Shame, because they had some really good insider jokes that you’d have to be a astronut to get.
That’s a pretty small market segment, even with today’s shattered audience.
I thought it worked for a general audience, and it did get renewed.
*SPOILER ALERT*
The ex-wife in prison really didn’t add anything that I could see. My best guess is that it was a joke that failed and also allowed them to fill air time when they ran out of space jokes. But the BB gun and balloon fight was brilliant comedy, particularly how both sides shot at the org’s own PR flak, ie the press.
Why no My First Christmas (as a woman)? Transphobe!
“‘Large emissions of CO2 and methane have not only altered the climate in the past – but also have ultimately caused biodiversity crisis, extinction of species and alterations of the ecosystems at a global scale. ‘Fossils offer cautionary tales about the impact greenhouse gases can have on the evolution and extinction of species.’”
He says that like it’s necessarily a bad thing.
Or like humans must’ve caused it in the past too, because we are the rulers of this planet!
It was merely 7000 years ago, so the SCIENCE is settled.
When that happened during the Permian was it because of the SUVs driven by the volcanic lava flows?
Have any of these idiots heard of the K-T boundary? Made extinctions have been a part of the earth’s cycle since its creation.
There is always less diversity right after a big climate change. And then there is a new bloom of diversity to fill in the new evolutionary niches that just opened up.
That doesn’t meant we need to live like primitive savages to try to prevent the earth from warming up.
I doubt it will warm up much any time soon. Aren’t we heading into a solar minimum?
That is my belief.
I just save time debating with people on climate change if I skip over “denying” it might exist and instead I focus on whether we can do anything about it, whether we should do anything about it, and whether the cure is worse than the disease.
When i was in 3rd or 4th grade we watched an old 8mm documentary about our solar system, and I remember the 2 girls sitting next to me bursting out in tears cause we all were going to die after the narrator told us that in 1 billion years the sun would go nova…
That was my first lesson in how people are not smart enough to understand either time flow and or perspective, and has been why I was not surprised participation trophies and self esteem chats for people that have accomplished nothing yet have led us to today’s foobared world.
In high school physics a kid proposed that we get rid of nuclear waste by launching it into the sun. There were many responses explaining why that would be a stupid plan. Some pointed out that space launches are risky and that having a rocket loaded with nuclear waste blow up 20 miles in the air would be bad thing,, and then one girl, who was in the running for valedictorian, piped up:
“OMG it is bad enough that you are poisoning the Earth with nuclear power! Now you want to make the sun radioactive”
This was a girl with straight As, at a top tier college prep high school, in her senior year.
It’s actually a decent idea–it is possible to build containment vessels that would survive such an accident. The real issue is how much they have to weigh and how much it would cost to get those into orbit. If we had a space elevator it’d be easy.
Nuclear waste is made up of rare, sometimes rare to the point of being unique, substances. It is not bulky and not that difficult to store. I suspect that future generations might regret our throwing it away in a permanent manner.
I think it was a Niven short story that had the premise that humanity had shot all of the nuclear waste to land on the moon so that it could be used for fuel when the technology advanced. The story was set at the time people were harvesting the nuclear waste for fuel.
Yeah, well if we used nuclear waste properly in breeder reactors, we’d get a lot more out of it before it really became waste.
It seems unlikely that a space elevator on earth ever can be made workable.
They may well work on the moon though.
The history of science and engineering is full of people who will explain why a proposed project or solution will never work. They get a lot of traction. Technical, social, etc. reasons are easy to come up with. But they are quite frequently proven wrong.
The history of science and engineering is full of people who will explain why a proposed project or solution will never work.
Yep. For a fairly recent example, there were lots of those types explaining why SpaceX’s plans for vertical landing and reuse would never work. Even after they had successful tests, they were saying it would never be reliable or cost effective.
I remember her!
Do they get that polluting any star with heavy metals seriously risk that the star will become unstable and then blow up? Stars die when their fusion cycle start synthesizing iron, so throwing in material with higher atomic count could potentially speed this crap up.
The best way to dispose of nuclear waste would be to bury it on the moon. That way when the idiots that think nuclear waste can go critical and cause a nuclear detonation can then claim Space 1999 comes late.
I’ll defer to a physicist here, but my off the cuff opinion is that throwing every bit of waste the Earth can ever produce into the sun would have about the same polluting effect as occurs when a sand flea pees in the ocean.
Any amount of anything we could throw into the Sun, which makes up 99.8% of the mass in the entire solar system, would be so insignificant in the scale of the Sun’s mass as to make no difference whatsoever. So, no, no risk of the star becoming unstable at all.
yes.
Not sure how much material would be needed to overcome that threshold there, but I believe there are far better solutions to the use of nuclear waste (including using it until it is spent) as some have mentioned.
I guess that as long as there is Hydrogen or Helium to fuse things are going to remain stable.
Not sure how much material would be needed to overcome that threshold there
Just guessing, but I think we could plow jupiter into the sun, and besides a bitchin solar flare, not much would happen.
You’re ‘polluting’ the upper layers of the sun. Fusion occurs at the core (the only place with sufficient
pressure and temperature to sustain reactions). Convective zones in the sun do not extend from the
‘surface’/photosphere down to the core. Additionally, the reactions at the core, in the suns case, rely on
the presence of sufficient hydrogen to fuse to helium. Once that reservoir of H is gone, that’s when
you will see changes to the stellar structure, irrespective of what heavy elements are present (to 0th order). The sun will never stably fuse elements above H and below the iron peak (no fusion above iron occurs at all
as those reactions are not exothermic – creation of elements above the iron peak requires massive stars that will undergo explosive death, i.e. super novae, and all elements heavier than iron are created in those environments) as it is not massive enough to produce the pressures and temperatures required – very little burning will occur beyond the H->He cycles.
I want a Dyson sphere.
We’re at the lowest ebb of a solar minimum right now. This present one has been one of the deepest on record, and the next solar maximum is forecast to be quite low as well (except for one big outlier forecast that’s getting a bunch of press in recent days).
I want my Meganeura and I want them now! *Lights barrels of diesel and tires stacked in the backyard*
…and all life on Earth perished, The End.
…
wait, wut?
Come further up, come further in!
I really hope C. S. Lewis had some inside info as to the afterlife.
If you don’t have a wardrobe, you’re fucked.
Nevermind that rising CO2 levels lagged behind temperature changes in the fossil record.
Ah, but quantum physics tells us that causality can work backwards in time!
*Looks at graph*
“Did that ever fit together?” – Al Gore
Yes, yes it did, you lying, grifting, pos.
Shhhh…. we’ve handwaved that away, but we’d still prefer you not mention it. Thanks! – Climate scientists
“Nevermind that rising CO2 levels lagged behind temperature changes in the fossil record.”
Thank you.
Imagine what the world would be like if all of the hairless monkeys stopped spending all of their time trying to get one over on the other hairless monkeys.
Note, that no one talks about snowball earth anymore, even though that is probably the closest we’ve come to all life on earth being snuffed out. Snowball earth is just not the fad right now, everything bad ever has been caused by warming.
That SpaceX launch was well worth the price of admission.
I had it projected up in my office snd a few SpaceX fans watched together. It was pretty sweet! We could see that the thruster flame wasn’t the right color when it was speeding back to earth.
Unlike NASA, SpaceX has the next craft already built.
One important new thing about this craft: it is meant to be able to function in a Martian atmosphere, so it doesn’t depend on the typical “air breathing” engines we use.
Progress!
We could see that the thruster flame wasn’t the right color when it was speeding back to earth.
At first I thought it was them trying to restart the engine that went out with TEA-TEB, but evidently it was because they were running “engine rich” as the cool space nerds like to say. (it was consuming components of the engine)
Heh. Just like those Bunsen burner experiments we did as kids. “The flame turned green so you know that it contains copper.” or whatever. That was a very long time ago.
My first thought was that the pressurization gas in the header tanks was getting past the fuel flow to the engines and becoming incandescent in the flame, but usually the ullage space is pressurized with helium, and helium’s spectrum looks red to human eyes, and the flame was pretty bright green. Argon is blue, so it may not have been that either unless the cameras don’t capture colors like that well when the image is saturated.
Thanks for making me look stupid on my birthday with your high-falutin’ scientism, facts and logic. I feel othered!
Meaning it was really a lean fuel:air mixture and the oxidizer needed something else to oxidize, I assume. I haven’t heard the term “engine rich” before, but I imagine it’s a joke implying that the mixture is so lean the engine itself becomes the fuel?
Correct.
They got all they wanted from the test, and the last bits were all bonus.
It blew up good! Real good! https://youtu.be/uHkvD7-u7y8
We could see that the thruster flame wasn’t the right color
omgwtf #icanteven
“Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.” -Elon
It’s odd, everything about that launch seemed off from almost the beginning.
That thing is too big to fly!
It’s running 3 of 6 engines. I cant imagine that they can get much slower on ascent without running into stability issues, but I don’t know whether they were actually at full throttle or not.
The yet to be built booster stage is supposed to have another 28 or so of those engines in it. This top stage is enormous, but the full stack is going to be insanely gargantuan. It will make a Saturn V look svelte.
Thanks for filling in MS! Tasty links!
Apparently, “9/11s” are a SCIENCE-tific unit of measurement, now.
How many 9/11s make a Viet Nam?
Haven’t you seen the documentary Team America?
Over the weekend, when we were up at Massanutten for the indoor water park, we’d pass by a Spotswood High School driving in and out. And, everytime we did, I would say “My name….is Spotswood” in the voice from the movie. By the third time, I think my wife wanted to punch me.
Played this one recently but what the heck – https://youtu.be/7T2oje4cYxw Is your wife named Donna?
But did she prove you could trust her?
Sadly, not recently
That’s just… Sorry Chip. I was just trying to amuse.
There are three kinds of people…..
Where was that Space-X test?
Somebody’s gonna get busted for littering.
Texas.
LOL I would always get chuckle when driving through Texas and seeing the anti-littering signs – “DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! $50 FINE FOR LITTERING”
Florida’s littering fine was $250 at the time.
When I was a little kid and saw similar signs about littering in Pennsylvania, I thought if you paid $200 or whatever the dollar amount was, it was fine (i.e. acceptable) to litter.
Don’t worry, the Biden admin will ban rocket because those things are racist! People are starving!
Haven’t you seen the documentary Team America?
No.
Find yourself the unrated version. It’s a puppet show by the guys who did South Park.
I watched that with my teen-aged daughter. Actually, she’s the one that turned me on to South Park. Her “real dad” had one of those ginormous satellite dishes and he’d let the kids watch whatever when he was at work. There is probably not much that would shock those kids. I remember watching the first episode of OZ and when Beecher gets processed she pipes up “Don’t drop the soap! ” in a hilarious dead-pan voice.
She was Eleven-ish?
She was into butt stuff at eleven? How old is she now? Pics?
Ok, reading your reply to me above and then this comment made me chuckle.
There’s nothing immoral about enjoying the company of someone who appreciated the recreational use of their orifices.
Giant dinosaurs weren’t “caused” by global warming. During the late Triassic, when dinosaurs really hit their own, the globe was actually cooling off the Permian highs, mostly due to Pangea breaking up.
The way this is worded (sloppily, like most science reporting) is just bad. Biology is reactive to conditions. Dinosaurs evolved because conditions favored the reproductive success of larger animals at that time, but dinosaurs were very adaptable to all conditions, living in all environments from pole to pole. And they still are, there being more species of dinosaur alive today than mammals. We call them birds, but they are a branch of the theropods, and dinosaurs, one of the most successful groups of multi-celled life on the planet.
Dude, get with the times. Do you want to be one of the cook kids who believe in SCIENCE? Everything is caused by global warming now that Trump is gone.
I am shamelessly re-announcing the fact that on this day, 56 years ago I did cause my own Mother considerable pain and suffering so that I might cause more and varied pain and suffering upon the people of this planet. All wishes, well or Ill are welcome! (He’s a little faced…)
I’ll stick with well wishes. Happy Emergence into the World Day.
Just did a Google search of famous birthdays for this day. Lots and lots of hot chicks and colored folk.
Baseball birthdays are awful today.
Best is Steve Renko. Paul Assenmacher (great name, mediocre pitcher) comes in at #3.
Assenmacher was better than mediocre, he was a good lefty reliever. Light fastball, great offspeed stuff.
13.1 WAR in 14 seasons. Two seasons of 2.0+ WAR, his rookie season with ATL and 1990 with the Cubs (3.7 that year, that was a really good year). After that he started being used more and more as just a LOOGY. There is some value there, but not much. A lefty who can be brought in to face the one key guy AND then pitch another inning is much more valuable. And that was how he was used earlier in his career. To have value, he needed to be pitching 100 innings per season, not 40.
13 WAR relief pitchers don’t really grow on trees. Eric Gagne, for example, only managed 11.7 and he was a three time All-Star and won a Cy Young.
WAR for relievers is not a great metric.
Happy Birthday. God bless and enjoy your day.
Faced? On your birthday?
Dr. Tres has only 1 prescription for that annual fever- MOAR BEER!
Happy Birthday?
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday, young man.
Thanks all! I’m feeling pretty positive right now which bodes ill for my liver function tomorrow night. Was supposed to be my day off but I’ll power through.
Happy birthday, Festus!
The world is a better place with you in it.
Grow very old bud!
Happy Birthday
Moar Thanks! I love this place.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Get off my lawn.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Happy birthday, Festus!
Excellent, d00d. Eventually you’ll be as old as me! {but I’ll still be older |sad face|}
Have a great one!
Happy Birthday!
European Space Agency Is Bringing Space Trash Back to Earth
Europe has been importing trash for awhile now. //jk
I wonder who put that trash out there in space?
“Europe has been
importingtrash for awhile now. //jk”FIFY
AEROTRASH —-> EUROTRASH?
The mission of the Japanese spacecraft, Hayabusa2
Interesting how they got a motorcycle into space.
Bah. Elon got a roadster up there, at the very least they should have sent a Honda S2000.
Americans did it better! https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0
Apparently stupid money is back in the market, in force.
Restaurant meal delivery company DoorDash on Tuesday evening raised $ 3.4 billion in its initial public offering, and will begin trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol DASH.
Total valuation of $39B.
People betting on lockdowns becomeing a permanent feature of life?
“Portland police chief tells protesters to ‘put down their weapons’ as armed activists set up ‘autonomous zone’ protected by booby-traps to protest eviction of black family as violent crime spikes in the neighborhood”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9037637/Crime-spikes-Portland-neighborhood-amid-autonomous-zone-protest-eviction-black-family.html
“Happy now? Minneapolis delivers on its promise to defund the police and wipes $8m from force’s budget despite record crime levels plaguing city”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9038865/Minneapolis-follows-threats-wipe-8million-police-department.html
Is there any reason to believe the Democrats aren’t deliberately trying to increase crime?
Prisoners do vote dem. And prisons are really easy to harvest votes from.
But they are trying to empty the prisons and jails, so that won’t work.
*taps fingertips together, pets floofy white cat*
First we sentence people to prison, then we let them out of prison. But! Now we have the prison as their address of record. So their absentee ballots can be mailed there for easy harvesting (especially since prisoners mail is routinely opened by staff there) aaaaand the former prisoner is free to vote locally, doubling their impact.
Eeeeexselent!
*muahahahaha*
1) Public reading of Riot Act.
2) Order “protestors” to disperse or be dispersed by force.
3) Open fire.
(Too harsh?)
No. I’d call this just right.
A little too English.
Indeed. That’s why I opt for saber-wielding cavalry, maybe some lancers for good measure as well.
It does seem that way.
If they were, how would their actions be different than what they are currently doing?
I wonder if any of the establishment Dems are starting to worry?
They used the crazies all summer to get rid of Trump. The premise was that if Biden was elected all the craziness would go away. Now they are starting to understand that the crazies are actually crazy and it will be hard to put them back in the bottle.
For years the Mpls city council members had been giving lip service to the crazies about defunding the cops. I don’t think any of them actually meant a word of it, but they said it to keep the crazies happy and voting for them. Then when the riots hit, the crazies realized they had some power and started putting pressure on the city councilors to actually follow through on their promises.
Being gutless hacks, they have gone along with the mob. The Boy Mayor Frey had been threatening to veto the cuts, but I see they somehow got him to go along with their plans.
I’m feeling bad for my sister who bought a house a year ago in south Mpls. I’m going to guess that her property value is going to go way down.
“I wonder if any of the establishment Dems are starting to worry?”
There’s only a few left and those will be forced out soon.
They’re all so old, they don’t have enough cognition left to be aware.
See recent stories on Finestein,
Crime may be way up this year, but it’s still way below the bad old days of the 70s and 80s. They know they have lots of wiggle room to let crime ramp up before a critical mass of voters demand they do something about it.
What are people going to do? Vote Republican? Hahahahahahahaha
They’re just getting people used to high crime so that when they confiscate all the legally owned guns, people won’t be shocked by being robbed in broad daylight by ten year olds with automatic weapons.
Foochy is on a media blitz trying to convince the rubes to line up for the vaccine. You were right to be afraid when President Cartoon Villain was involved, but now everything is A-okay!
JUST GET THE SHOT.
He has to assure the lefties that this time it is ok to support and trust big pharma.
I feel better now that I know that is was developed by a black woman.
Aunt Jemima?
It’s time to wring the last bit of FSA funds before they vanish into thin air.
I think I have around $500 left, maybe more. I’ll have to log in and check.
I was planning to go to the dentist this month, but I think they might be closed due to Dear Leader Newsom.
I could use FSA money for loading up on consumable OTC stuff, but I don’t really need that much aspirin and allergy medicine.
Any clever ideas on a health related expense I can make in the next 3 weeks?
Medicinal Scotch? (You can always send a case to Glibs HQ).
Last time we got our teeth cleaned, the dentist looked like he was doing a space walk.
Worth making a few calls! I don’t yet have a dentist here in California, so I’ll have to find one willing to take new patients too.
My dentist is in the “lockdowns are stupid” category. I think he figures since he is sticking his hands in peoples mouths, no use mucking around with other stuff. I mean, sure, they wear masks and all, but he doesn’t really care.
He moved his practice from PA or NY or some other yankee hellhole a few years back.
lockdowns probably affected his practice. Most people who’ve been affected financially are against the lockdowns it’s the people that haven’t that are the belligerent retards.
I got a cleaning in June my dentist was just happy to have a customer. Due back up in january.
Chiropractor or acupuncture just for the hell of it?
Build a great first aid kit?
That’s a good one. I haven’t really found a ready-made one that I liked. A custom one with a few special touches would be wise.
Another thought is a backup battery system for my and the Mister’s CPAP machines. It was a real drag going without then when our power was cut recently. I’ll have to make some calls first to check eligibility.
from what I learned on “Emergency!” you’re gonna need Ringer’s, D5W, and a radio to call Rampart. That should eat up $500
Squad 51, station 51, see the man.
+ Jack Webb
That tacklebox with the remote EKG thingie was the bee’s knees. Also, I stuck with Lost solely because of the presence of Kevin Tighe.
Try this company:
North American Rescue
They have some really nice kits.
Last I checked there were places that would put custom kits together for you, or you could buy a ready-made one and add stuff as long as the bag is big enough. If the bag isn’t big enough and you are trying to spend money, you can buy an Iron Duck for $100.
Our last motorhome had two deep-cycle batteries for the coach. My CPAP would suck them dry well before dawn. A generator might be a better solution.
Dont medical FSAs allow $500 or so of carryover now?
I don’t use ours at work because I have a self-owned HSA and can’t use both, but ours allows a bit of carryover.
$550 **IF** your employer allows rollovers. Why an employer wouldn’t is beyond me.
Are massages covered?
Joe Biden will wave his magic orb and sceptre, and the plague will slink away. Honest.
Joe Biden better keep his “scepter” and “orbs” under wraps for a while.
How long will the media cover up for his obvious sexual attraction to young girls?
If Kennedy is the example then 30 years or so until it becomes okay in the eye of the public.
Do you think Amy Coney-Barret’s will bring any of her daughters within a mile of the Joe’s first State of the Union speech?
* What are the odds that Joe will revive the tradition of simply sending a letter to Congress outlining the state of the union and skip the televised speech?
Interesting question. I doubt he’d be capable of an extended speech.
Dear Congress,
Re: State of Union
Proper fucked.
Yours,
Joseph Hey you with the hair that smells like daffodils, what is my last name?
I think that would be covered by a relative of Cornpop – guy by the name of Fat, yeah Fat Chance.
Relevant
I figured he’d just brandish a shotgun and fire both barrels in the air over it’s head to show it he means business.
AGH. “its head” /shame
I don’t know if his magic incantation is going to be enough for a lot of people it’s going to take the magic of losing a paycheck.
Any clever ideas on a health related expense I can make in the next 3 weeks?
New glasses?
That’s a good one, and I already did it a couple of months ago. I used EyeBuyDirect to select frames and try them on virtually. Their website collects all the pertinent measurements of your eye / face dimensions.
I did However have to provide a pdf of my prescription.
SpaceX didn’t quite stick the landing yesterday.
So you are saying that the test results were explosive.
They threw a blowa party.
And it was a blast.
Stuck it like a stick of dynamite!
NYC juco faculty doesn’t want a Jew to attend one of their meetings, so they schedule it on the Sabbath. This is not in dispute.
Results of the investigation (which took 2.5 years, natch): targeting this particular badthinkful Jew is ok. But this practice might make goodjews think they’re not welcome either, therefore they shouldn’t do that again:
Kirias Joel seems like a good idea.
Any religious discrimination was purely secondary to the intended viewpoint discrimination and therefore no violation of the First Amendment occurred.
Giant dinosaurs were caused by global warming
I wonder how they did global warming without industry. Or are we going to acknowledge that human industry and co2 do not drive climate?
We’ve already established that it has never been as warm as it is now, because SCIENCE! and I don’t see any giant dinoasaurs running around. I call BS.
And, of course, the asshole on Bloomberg right now says, “Don’t kid yourself. You’ll be under mask and lockdown orders for another year, vaccine or no vaccine.”
And Bloomberg Talking Dipshit brags about how they only invite “adult voices” on the show.
You’ll be under mask and lockdown orders for another year
Not me. And I care not for whatever bs Governor Coonman McBlackface has to say this afternoon.
Oh, he’s not even worth being called Coonman anymore. He’s now Cuntman to me.
DeWine (RINO – OH) is probably extending his curfew order today. The state legislature didn’t vote (that I can find) to override the veto of the bill limiting the governor’s powers. Local news was having great fun with a headline about those fighting the governor’s restrictions have tested positive for the ‘vid!
It’s working so well …
Well us plebes may have traveled on Thanksgiving, so we can’t be allowed out at night, or get our old last call hours back, or take off the masks…
That asshole may not be wrong, unfortunately.
You just know whatever the Japanese bring back is going to cause Godzilla.
They should send him over to check on the cherry trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GtTyC53kjU
BÖC released a new album this year.
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
What If George Akerlof Applied His Theories to Himself?
The poor grammar makes that article hard to read. Proof reading is important.
That article is really hard to read, is it the grammar or is it just slapdash? Poor-quality economics (“lemons”) drives out higher quality economics (“peaches”) because government demands low-quality econ? Asymetric information doesn’t exist, or it does exist and some economist should apply it to himself? Sellers make products a worse value-proposition all the time and go through great efforts to deceive, since price is the only thing that consumers can see prior to purchase. Is this controversial?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9038685/Demi-Rose-reveals-cleavage-tiny-scarlet-string-bikini-visits-elephant-sanctuary.html
A stunningly beautiful girl from the waist up.
You just know whatever the Japanese bring back is going to cause Godzilla.
*crosses fingers*
That would make 2020 totally worth it.
“Dr Fauci reassures his ‘African-American brothers and sisters’ that Moderna vaccine was developed with help of a black doctor – a woman who once claimed coronavirus was a ‘genocide’ and doctors were ‘letting black patients die’
Dr Fauci has highlighted a black doctor who worked with Moderna on their coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to reassure African Americans that the procedure is safe.
But it has been revealed that Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is also famed for her wild conspiracy theories, claiming early this year that coronavirus was a ‘genocide’ against black people and that doctors would allow African American patients to die”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9037623/Black-woman-Dr-Kizzmekia-Corbett-paraded-Fauci-scientists-developed-COVID-pandemic-genocide.html
with help of a black doctor – a woman
If that is your argument I want the vaccine even less than I already did.
Fauxchi seems less a doctor and more an activist.
First, last and foremost – a bureaucrat. That is someone who aspires to power but normally has very little.
“…claiming early this year that coronavirus was a ‘genocide’ against black people and that doctors would allow African American patients to die.”
I bet she’s a blast at parties.
Tuskegee looms large.
Shit, the anthrax vaccine looms larger.
I only skimmed the article, but there are some interesting things on this topic that flit around in my head sometimes.
1. If one accepts the theory that most (all) of today’s fossil fuels are biogenic in nature, and further that this biogenesis occurred at the planet’s surface and not in situ;
a. At some point in the past, all of the carbon and other elements contained in our fossil fuel reserves were once at the surface (not necessarily concurrently);
b. This additional carbon, over and above the current surface inventory, represented a substantially increased energy source located at the surface (as C-C, C-H, etc. chemical bonds)
c. This additional energy reserve at the surface was available for megafauna to develop.
2. There are issues with development of megafauna in a hot/warm climate, namely that the volume/surface area ratio of an organism increases greatly as size increases, and presents special problems for keeping the organism cool. This is why many megafauna, at least mammalian in type, seem to have thrived in cool climates (think mammoths, sabertooth tigers, etc.)
a. However, the largest dinosaurs were larger than land-based mammalian megafauna, so what gives?
Lots more to think about but I have to do some work now.
“Trump tells White House Hanukkah party that if SCOTUS judges have ‘courage and wisdom’ he will win election as Texas senator John Cornyn slams his AG’s case to overturn the defeat saying states shouldn’t interfere in each others elections”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9037755/Texas-senator-John-Cornyn-slams-AGs-SCOTUS-case-overturn-Trumps-defeat.html
States also should not rig elections.
Nobody could have predicted a destabilizing effect on politics if one party declared all means to be acceptable in order to win.
Or if they had spent 4 years delegitimizing the result of the previous election.
Well, that was a special circumstance because OMB, see.
Oh, and by the way, that Star Trek Acid Party video from yesterday was hilarious. It might have worked better as several videos; it seems they had a number of ideas for different scenes that didn’t tie together as well as they could have. A lot of the middle was just a pastiche. But it was quite entertaining, and I don’t even use psychedelics.
Good morning, Mad!
Lots o’ space news. The ‘splodin rocket was awesome! I know that wasn’t good, but I’ve already seen them stick the landing a bunch of times. You need a good disaster once in awhile.
Fantastic Christmas music! Here’s my contribution.
Have a great day, peeps!
They learn way more from their failures than from their successes.
At 4:30 or so, during my sleep mode malfunction (I would really really like to sleep all the way through the night, some time), I ended up watching the Bloombergers interview some jabbering nitwit from Foreign Affairs (I think) magazine. Good grief. You’d think we were digging ourselves out of the rubble of a world war and total collapse of all government functions and services. Germany in 1946 was a goddam paradise, compared to what we face. It’s a smoldering waste land out there, peepul!
Let us raise our voices to Ballgag Joe in praise and gratitude, for leading us out of the wreckage and desolation of Trump’s America.
Let us instead speak softly and carry a big stick.
It must be Hanukkah. The cafeteria has M&M filled dreidels, bags of gelt, and all the sprinkles on the donuts and chololate-covered pretzels are blue and white.
Any of these, my favorite party treat?
Fauxchi seems less a doctor and more an activist.
He wants to keep you safe, you ungrateful whelp!
After spending thirteen or so hours playing Cyberpunk, I have this to say – there is a bug where if you spend thirteen or so hours playing, the computer crashes.
Oh, I’m burning vacation days so I don’t end up losing them, so all’s well on the work front.
NPR did a story about how evil CDProjekt is and they interviewed someone who requested a day off of work to play it, but then those fascist pollaks PUSHED BACK THE RELEASE DATE!
They also engaged in (I’m trying to quote this, but it’s from memory)” subjected their employees to ‘crunch time’ which is industry slang for excessive overtime”
They will be later doing an interview with Keanu.
The schedule change was presented to the employees and they chose crunch. It’s not like management mandated it.
I also got my first vacation to play the game messed up by the move – which was really an issue because of how it was handled, being the day after they officially promised no more delays.
They literally used the word “excessive.” That much I’m sure of.
Still not sure why they chose to do a story on a freaking video game, unless their corporate masters told them to.
It was hilarious later when they were grilling one of the AGs suing Facebook for why they were being so mean to one of their sponsors.
Was it the employees who said Excessive, or the “journalists”? Because given the timing and quantity of overtime, it’s not all that severe.
The nprian. It is imprtant they they inform the plebes what technical industry jargon really means.
Those poor slobs. Imagine being the very first people in the software development industry who were forced to put in long hours to meet a deadline. It is unprecedented!
I remember my first real job out of college. A project that was on the same floor was missing deadlines and a release was scheduled for the beginning of the year, so the managers instituted mandatory 60 hour work weeks for everyone starting right after Thanksgiving so that they could make the date. Of course that company paid overtime, so it was an easier sell.
To be fair, I’ve not heard of any complaints coming from the people actually doing the work. It’s all coming from outside whiners.
I’m burning vacation days so I don’t end up losing them
#metoo
Today is the first day of vacation.
I’ve debated getting it for stadia, just because google is giving you a controller and a chromecast for free.
Stadia strikes me as something that’s either going to fold, or be a massive money pit for Google.
Since I have a gaming rig, and I don’t trust Google, I’ve been avoiding it.
Does it autosave?
yes.
I only got to the tutorial, too much stuff to do. Everyone has been complaining about performance. I was maintaining above 60FPS on ultra with a 1080ti and i5 10600k. Maybe that will slow when I get into more action.
There is one performance issue I had. If it’s running for long spans of time, it starts to have issues in crowds. But restarting the application fixes that.
(Note, I didn’t run the game thirteen hours straight, but the last span was at least six or more hours)
I have a newer video card but older CPU than you.
I’m waiting for the first major bug fix patch before I start. And also for a new computer.
Have you murdered any trans wxmxn of color yet? I hear it’s basically a trans genocide simulator.
I donno. With all the body armor, I can’t tell who’s getting shot.
Most of the time though I use nonlethal takedowns – for the fun of the challenge. Dismantling a location’s security through stealth is something I’m rather fond of.
*tries to check steam account*
LOL. Apparently the demand is so high that it’s brought down the entire Steam service.
How is the game? I’ve been strong on avoiding preorders, but that game tempted me.
I’ve been playing through my backlog (currently going through Greedfall).
I’ve been having fun.
It does need a patch for minor fixes. Only that one crash after extended play was actually significant.
I haven’t bought a game since Warlords of Draenor.
I started Lord of the Rings Online when the lockdowns hit. So far I’m 1100 hours into it, and still haven’t maxed out a character yet or gotten past Western Gondor. And it’s free.
No I have to go try to figure out how to kill a ghost.
Just remember if you’re in multiplayer, don’t cross the streams.
I’m tempted to give it a try, but first-person games give me a head-ache.
Then don’t do it. The headache will rob you of fun.
Worth buying?
I’d say so.
Thanks. I’m getting close to buying.
Other Christmas music.
I was expecting this from you.
Firstly, would. Secondly, Beijing Biden IS a potato.
Elementary school principal is suing school district after being fired for sharing conservative memes on her Facebook page where she said she’d rather vote for a potato than Joe Biden.
*remembers screaming lunatic Oregon teacher from two days ago*
She will be given an award by the morons…
I voted for Jo. A potato might have been a preferable option.
Hmmm…ranked choice ballot:
1. Potato
2. Jo
3. Zombie Coolidge
4. Trump
5. Biden
1. db
2. Robo-Coolidge
3. Jo
4. Trump
5. That robot from Aqua Teen Hunger Force that drones on and on and on about holiday myths
6. Biden
Ill need to see more than a head-shot, but Im guessing “prolly would”.
Her twitter is no more illuminating.
On second thought, the headshot might be a bit too flattering and divorced from reality. Hard to say.
Some of us actually voted for a good candidate.
Robot Nixon?
“Perkiomen Valley School District and Superintendent Barbara Russell, pictured, fired principal Amy Sacks because she found her social media postings ‘offensive, unacceptable, and unprofessional.'”
Yeah, sure.
If I were on the school board for Perkiomen Valley, I’d send Ms. Russell a very simple message: “If she wins this suit, she’s not going to be the only one out of a job.”
I’m not hugely familiar with all of the municipalities it serves, but I remember some of these municipalities being a little more well-to-do than other municipalities in the area.
“is a school district based in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (US). It serves the boroughs of Collegeville, Trappe, and Schwenksville, and the townships of Lower Frederick, Perkiomen, and Skippack, in Pennsylvania.[1] The district headquarters are in Perkiomen Township.
Says wiki
Skippack is a cute little town with a decent cheese shop.
I used to drive through there daily. It is a nice looking town.
I think I know the cheese shop you’re talking about. Some relatives of mine have spoken well of a cheese shop in Skippack.
Exactly how old is that pic?
Difference between Foochy and Mengele?
Mengele knew what he was doing.
Mengele was willing to form a hypothesis, then experiment until it was proven or disproved. Faci just talks out of his ass.
I larfed.
Mengele was a monster who allowed white men to perform human experiments.
Fooch is a saint who allowed black women to perform human experiments.
*remembers screaming lunatic Oregon teacher from two days ago*
WOULD.
Just whisper “I voted for Trump” in her ear, and hang on.
You’d be well advised to be doing the doggy and have one hand around her thigh and a fistful of hair in the other, Pardner! Seven seconds.
She seemed fun. Lots of energy.
Never.
Stick it.
In crazy.
A lesson that never lands until your pubes start graying, Animal.
We grow too soon old, and too late smart.
Dave Axledick is still a mendacious hack.
“Let’s just be clear about one thing, the president said yesterday, he said let’s see who has the courage to do what everyone in this country knows is right. Let’s talk about courage. Courage are those secretaries of state and election officials who, under threat of violence against them and their families and political repercussions, did their duty, counted the votes, verified the votes, recounted the votes, and proclaimed a winner based on the will of the people in their states. That is courage. That is courage.”
A long time ago, one of my friends, when he found out his wife was pregnant, said, “Ooh, I hope it’s twins, so I can do experiments on them.”
Psychiatrist?
“One of the most critical to-do items for the American democracy movement over the next four years will be to more effectively counter domestic anti-democracy disinformation. If possible, it should be done on both the supply and demand sides. We can’t ignore this issue any longer.”
https://twitter.com/EvanMcMullin/status/1336839561486487553
What?
“We cannot allow wrongthink!”
I don’t think this guy gets that his usefulness to the powers that be ran out on November 4. He’s now “domestic anti-democracy disinformation”.
counter domestic anti-democracy disinformation
So you are saying you want to ban corporate “news” media.
Pitching himself as the loyal opposition [lapdog] to the Dem powers?
Do not read the replies.
/Your Friendly Glib
I find it interesting that the Japanese did their asteroid mission to coincide with the Chinese moon mission. I’ve always believed that the global space programs (governmental) were always a lot more about proving missile technology to potential adversaries than some sort of Star Trek “Explore New Worlds” ideals. Any chance this is a bit of technology one-upsmanship?
Is there any chance that it is not?
Last winter while visiting my father down in Texas, he drove us by the Space X stuff as a tourist thing. I have to say it was sort of meh. I’ve seen ranches in western NoDak that had as much scrap metal and big equipment laying around the yard as the Space X sites.
It is pretty obvious, though, that you could explode all sorts of stuff down there and not a single person would be affected. Not a lot down there.
My dad was miffed at Space X because they had bought out some guy who had a small bait shop near the beach. He and his buddy had driven way out there to do some surf fishing and hadn’t brought any beer or bait because they were going to buy it from that guy. Then they discovered he had been bought out and they had to drive 20 miles or so back to civilization to buy their supplies.
That’s one of the cool things about SpaceX vs NASA. NASA would spend half a billion dollars on a facility to store all the scrap metal and develop a system to properly handle it and do a bid to major contractors to handle that inventory and provide a solution.
SpaceX buys a lot and lays the stuff out there. They aren’t wasting money on infrastructure that will only hamper their future flexibility. They are spending their resources on things that make a difference and advance their goals now.
I’m not a SpaceX or Musk fanboy, but their approach is so much leaner than NASA and the major contractors and it has the potential to be so much faster and more successful in shorter periods of time.
So much this.
Love that story, Tundra. Vital necessities were met. They lost an hour of fishing but the rest of the day prospered.
Has Pie in the Sky been around lately?
So wait a second. Global warming happened a long time ago, on its own, before humans even existed. But now it’s happening again, but it’s 100% caused by those humans. Interesting.
SCIENCE!
It is as if it is bullshit being used as an excuse to control people, kind of like Convid-1984.
Well, the True Believers will say that all that carbon was sequestered and dealt with by Gaia. But we dug it up and ruined Gaia’s magic plans.
MURDERER
This how the agony of coronavirus differs in Iran: nowhere else in the world faces this monster of a virus with the added scourge of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” sanctions, which Iranian officials and doctors insist have hampered their Covid-19 fight.
Retired teacher Khalif Farahani struggles to speak, but his emotions pierce the breathlessness of the virus’s impact on his lungs. “Sanctions, it is cruelty (from) America”, he said. He caught the virus on a park excursion, he added, but even in this condition is “better than before.”
President Cartoon Villain just plucked Iran out of a hat; threw a dart at the map of the world, blindfolded, and decided to make them a scvapegoat for no reason.
Our War-Criminal-in-Chief, ladies and gentlemen.
Biden will send them pallets of respirators and vaccines and cash, to atone.
Duh. He started his term by murdering Irainian grammas after all. TOS even ran two stories about it.
Different Murderer.
Psychiatrist?
Attorney.
Says the soy-boy leftist with a lisp…
Traditional masculinity is a disease.
Traditional masculinity allows ignorant, ungrateful fucks like you to live lavishly and without fear of harm.
That shit angers me so much. ‘Traditional masculinity’ has saved my mother fucking life. People have been struggling to figure shit out for thousands of years, and my ignorant fucking ass thought I knew better than all of them by the time I was 23. By 40 I began to realize how wrong I was.
There may be a layer of artifice to a lot of it, but I’ve found that artifice to be important. Our minor delusions is what makes life worth living. So change your own oil.
There’s this conflation of masculinity with machismo on the left. They hate both concepts, so may as well try to meld the two so that others join them in the hate.
Classic demoralizing tactic. You see it done all the time. Pick a nutbar outlier (“the vaccine is just a ploy to inject microchips!”), conflate everyone who disagrees with you (“I don’t trust a vaccine developed in a few months with minimal short-term study”) with the nutbar outlier, and delegitimize them all as nutbars.
I have no idea who that is.
I think that’s the guy who made is career doing the math to figure out how to maximize the number of hand jobs he could give out.
An actor who roided up to play an Indian super hero in a new Marvel movie
Haven’t comic book movies run their fucking course yet?? Enough of that childish shit.
“Childish shit” is the entirety of pop culture. Children, ironically, have more disposable income than adults with families.
Superhero crap is by far the worst of it all, though.
I honestly don’t know when comic books became such a big deal. It just sort of happened out of nowhere. I never read them as a kid, nor did I know anyone who did, and it’s not as if my circle of friends were the supercool kids or anything.
Because superhero movies are the mythical tales of our time. I for one am happy that a subculture I belong to is becoming popular and not just getting the lowest common denominator treatment.
My theory is this:
In the 20th century both the traditional mythology (note I am not making a judgment as to truth with the word) of religion and the traditional mythology of our cultural history came under attack. Schools stopped teaching the mythos, many people left churches and those that remained were often in churches that largely ignored the mythic basis of the religion in favor of church as social club. This seemed to many on the left, and some in libertarian circles as a good thing, because those myths were all ‘lies’ anyway.
But human beings need a culture to belong to. Without a culture we do not have the basic shared understanding of the world and our place in it that allows us to communicate or to function in society. And culture is transmitted and formed by myth. So when the existing myths were neglected new myths were desperately needed. Comic books are the new mythos.
They follow the same archetypal structure of personified virtues and vices interacting in symbolic set piece conflicts. They teach moral lessons (not necessarily good ones, but not necessarily bad ones either). Yes, I am saying that Spider Man is the 20th century version of the Vedas.
Maybe.
Eh, just another way I’m something of an oddball. Never had any longing for myth. Santa Clause was enough for me, I guess. I’ve always been obsessed with history instead.
@Jarflax, that all sounds very Joseph Campbell.
History is largely myth as well. At least as it is generally transmitted.
I think there’s also a not insignificant element of Maslow’s hierarchy of need going on here. People need purpose, but those who are just surviving can’t indulge.
What we have is a prosperity problem.
@Plisade Yep. I think he was largely correct about the archetypal underpinnings of culture.
@Mo, regarding the “prosperity problem,” I agree. But I hope we evolve into it. It would be nice if we came to recognize a Warrior Class whose genetic need to fight was accepted.
@JF, agreed and I’m a big fan of JC. Star Wars is my mythology.
This is why we have sports, specifically football, and I believe it’s why people get pissy about new rules that protect the players more (e.g., roughing the passer, concussion protocols, pass interference). It’s not that I WANT the players to get hurt. It’s that taking away the roughness emasculates the game and the players. Not only that, but they’re paid for the use of their bodies until they can no longer play and they break down at an early age.
Further, the US military is not a “warrior class” as such because they don’t do much of anything THAT WE CAN SEE. There were newsreels and papers to document the fighting in WWI and WWII. It was a bombardment of masculinity and there was purpose behind it. But those guys came home and didn’t want to talk about it.
Korea and Vietnam were all, “Why are we there, again?” so the Vietnam vets were reviled not for being masculine, but as the effigy for a government that sent them there.
The cold war saw no warriors but maybe, if you stretch it, Reagan and Thatcher.
Desert Storm–I don’t remember why we were there.
The rest is just a hodge podge of “we’re Over There Somewhere We Don’t Precisely Know Where or Why *shrug*”.
So our warrior class becomes football players.
The US military has a warrior class but it’s a small subset of the overall force and not particularly valued within that overall force.
While I was in I strived to maintain my warrior skills but it was obvious that those were not valued so much by the Army.
A few months before I retired my unit was on the rifle range where we were shooting to qualify with our M-4’s. About 6 to 8 senior NCO’s were trying to load magazines to keep those on the firing line supplied with loaded magazines to complete the course.
None of them knew how to speed load a magazine. They were not even able to keep up with the demand from the shooters on the range. I stepped in and started loading magazines faster than the whole group of senior enlisted combined. It’s like they had an aversion to knowing how to do actual “soldier” tasks.
Chipwooder, I’m with you on not needing myths. I have a lot of friends who are into comics and have been for decades, so I understand a bit of the culture. I just don’t find any of the stories remotely compelling, and frankly don’t care for the worldview of some elite group of special people who fight amongst themselves for good or evil. We have enough of that in the real world, far too much.
Oops, that was for Mo.
History is often myth, but it’s generally plausible myth. It may not have happened the way we believe it did, but it could have.
I think that’s why I generally don’t mind Iron Man or Batman as much – there’s no magic, only technology. Implausible technology, in many cases, but underneath there’s just an ordinary man with no magical superpowers.
Rando: “What’s your super power?”
Batman: “I’m rich.”
Myth doesn’t necessarily mean false or magical or any of that. It refers to the symbolic teaching of cultural or moral precepts through stories. John Paul Jones’ “Don’t give up the ship” is myth, and probably factual. George Washington and the cherry tree and George Washington crossing the Delaware are both myth. The magical trappings make the story more compelling to children, but the idea of myth does not require them.
John Paul Jones’ “Don’t give up the ship” is myth, and probably factual.
Nit: That was James Lawrence on the Chesapeake.
John Paul Jones said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
An interesting and thoughtful take 🙂 It’s funny you’d bring up professional sports… I’m all about being a warrior, even since being outside of the Marines. Yet I have no desire to watch or follow sports; I’m totally missing that gene. But the battlefield is and has always been alluring to me.
There is a thirst out there to watch/partake in a warrior class. If people can’t get it in real life, they’ll make it up or allow the closest substitute.
#metwo
The only thing I get out of watching sports it the frustration of wanting to go participate in something which isn’t happening where I can join in. And I completely miss the team/tribe affiliation thing.
But I have always felt the warrior gene from ROTC in high school, enlisting into a guaranteed combat arms contract on my 17th birthday, and then going back into the reserves 22 years after taking the uniform off.
I can pick up a blade or military rifle and just feel the proper application for it.
Word, TJ. Unfortunately, my son does not hear the military call, but I started taking him to the range and we’ll be picking out a pistol for his Christmas present. He’s into it. Passing the torch is comforting.
Even in the United States, you can find plenty of places where “traditional masculinity” has been dealt out of the picture. Trust me, they’re not places you want to go. They’re poor, dangerous, and cruel. Because masculinity doesn’t go out of the picture. It can be channeled, in which case it’s one of mankind’s greater gifts or it can be left to fester aimlessly. But it doesn’t go away.
This is why romance novels exist.
Well, I’m a little torn. Provincial Gov is offering free money. On the one hand I feel a little dirty taking a hand-out that I don’t really need but on the other hand, everyone else is going to do it. On the gripping hand, I could buy a shit-load of pet food with their filthy lucre. I will swallow my pride and spend the cash while it’s still worth something. Still doesn’t feel right, though. $500 bucks, same as downtown.
You’ll sleep better at night if you spend it all on ammo.
It’s your money. Why the hell wouldn’t you take it back?
This.
You pay taxes right?
Anyone see Ozy around lately?
Nein
Quest for redemption
Over the course of the pandemic, Birx drew criticism from public health experts and Democratic lawmakers for not speaking out forcefully against the Republican president when he contradicted advice from medical advisers and scientists about how to fight the virus.
On everything from Trump’s aversion to masks to his dangerous suggestion that ingesting bleach might ward off the virus, critics and backers say Birx stepped carefully to try to maintain her influence in hopes of pushing the president to listen to the scientists.
“The president’s departure from reality become so extreme that it put her and others on the task force in an untenable position,” said Michael Weinstein, who heads the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and got to know Birx professionally after she was named the global AIDS coordinator in 2014.
“History will have to judge whether they enabled the president by giving him credibility based on their expertise or whether she and the others did more in helping prevent more people from being hurt by the craziness,” he said.
Birx has made clear that she wants to stick around to help the Biden administration roll out vaccines and persuade the American people to be inoculated.
She has reached out to Biden advisers in recent days as she tries to make the case for a role in the incoming Democratic president’s virus response effort, according to a person familiar with the Biden team’s personnel deliberations and a Trump administration coronavirus task force official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.
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Speaking at a Wall Street Journal CEO conference on Tuesday, Birx, a public servant for 40 years, said she planned to remain in government but has yet to hear from the Biden transition team about how or if she’ll be used on the pandemic.
She’s a perfect fit. A career bootlicker. She’ll fit right in.
That’s like your newlywed wife inviting her ne-er do well brother to move into the spare room on your wedding night.
“Public servant for 40 years” I believe the servicing went in the opposite direction, Brix.
how to fight the virus
You can’t really “fight” it unless you have contracted it.
You can’t stop the spread.
the fact trump didn’t fire these fucking chud clowns was his greatest failure as president. Fauci and Birx deserve to be publicly displayed in a stockade with a 6′ perimeter and a mask mandate for all the people who wish to throw rotten fruit at them.
Jeremy Konyndyk, now a member of the Biden transition’s Health and Human Services team, applauded Birx’s appointment early in the crisis. But Konyndyk, who led USAID’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Obama administration, soon became a critic.
“My confidence in Dr. Birx has been eroding in recent weeks,” Konyndyk tweeted after Birx defended Trump’s decision in April to suspend funding for the World Health Organization. “But with this, it is lost. This statement is not credible as public health analysis, and is clearly not intended to be.”
Sad.
How to evaluate science:
1. Does the conclusion being drawn help my side?
Yes = Good science
No = go to step 2
2. Does the conclusion being reached hurt my side?
Yes = go to step 3
No = Bad science
3. Does the conclusion being reached help my foes?
Yes = Bad science
No= go to step 4
4. Does the conclusion being reached hurt my foes?
Yes = Good science
No = go to step 5
5. Examine the data and methodology, attempt to replicate the result, design experiments to try to falsify the conclusion and repeat until the conclusion is falsified. If the conclusion is not falsified after extensive testing consider the conclusion to have attained the status of theory and build on it, but always keep an eye out for inconsistent results because nothing is ever fully settled in science.
5. is rarely reached these days.
Step 2 is reversed.
Why does that guy hate women?
I don’t have anything against Tucker Carlson, but he does have a punchable face.
Where is your god “Democracy” now?
Progressive lawmakers in the “Squad” want to see President-Elect Joe Biden use executive actions to cancel student loan debt, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, declare climate change a national emergency and more.
Biden will likely have a tough time passing major legislation, even if Democrats win next month’s Georgia runoffs and narrowly retake the Senate, so liberals are urging him to make use of the power of the office without involving Congress.
“We’ve all seen what it’s like trying to get meaningful legislation past Republicans in the Senate,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told NBC News. “We know that there is a lot that can be done at the executive level.”
Omar, who has met with Biden transition officials and said she was “quite happy” to find them receptive to her ideas, submitted a list of potential executive actions that include some proposed by others on the left, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
The will of the people is whatever we say it is.
Executive fiat is fine when leftists do it.
I think they fail to understand that Congress, including the GOP Senate, has the power to withhold funding for their schemes, although I can already hear Suderman screaming that the Senate has no right to force a “default” by refusing to fund loan guarantees on debt the executive unilaterally decided to cancel.
Congress, including the GOP Senate, has the power to withhold funding for their schemes
The power, sure. The will? I haven’t seen it in quite some time.
For real for real?
“…raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors…”
Hah! As someone that’s managed FedGov projects (EPA) I can guarantee you that nobody on my crew made less than $30/hr. Simple decorum prevents me from citing the obscene amount I was paid.
Thanks for answering my question before I asked it. I was wondering why the federal government contracts minimum wage burger flippers.
Without reading the article, I’m guessing it applies to all employees of federal contractors not just employees working on a specific fed contract, similar to the way antidiscrimination/affirmative action requirements apply.
I seem to remember reading in a couple of articles that there’s several union contracts that have a minimum payment as a multiple of the minimum wage. So increasing the minimum wage can force the union workers to get a higher wage as well.
Prevailing wage, baby. It’s not about helping the little guy, it’s the unions all the way.
“Unions stand up for the little guy!”
/proggie talking point.
Anyone ever here of Tommy Salmons? He has a Libertarian Podcast called Year Zero, and wants me to come on his show and talk about Slab City.
He Says he read my articles, from Here, Interesting…..
/insert It’s Happening gif here
Next the Babylon Bee will acknowledge us!
/waves at the plant
I’m still waiting for the FBI mole to slip up.
Hmm, posts comment asking about who the mole might be, classic misdirection! LJW is the mole.
90% of our posters are feds. I’m probably a fed and don’t even know it.
Im going to do it of course, and promote the fuck out of Glibs, as well as myself,,
Good timing, now that SP has so skillfully fixed the server issues we were having.
I come here to not be famous.
You and me bud.
yep
As long as you talk shit about Adult Swim and talk up Hat and Hair, I’m ok with this
It’s probably an op. Sacha Cohen and others…
So last night I was watching the latest David Lynch offering, Big Sky. In it he takes a poke at progressives and their racism and transphobia. It was a nice gesture, if not actually glorious.
Girl to trans prostitute: My dad taught us about racism, but not the skinheads and Klan and idiots. You can see them coming. It’s the progressives who blah blah blah [can’t remember]. I think I might be one of those people.
Trans prostitute to girl: But you can change.
David Kelley, not David Lynch. Lynch would have a talking mailbox that when you stuck your arm inside, you’d get sucked into an alternate version of Montana where everyone is gypsies who can read your mind but make amazing pancakes.
that plot line actually sounds too linear and coherent for a david lynch movie.
I would love disney to give him the live action Pinocchio movie though. Be pretty awesome.
it would all take place in a one room shack black in white as jepedo slowly descends into madness. Be a great statement on covid-19.
Sorry, that was just off the top of my head.
Nice. An actual David Lynch one would have some dreary music playing in the background and when you stuck your hand in the mailbox it would magically appear out of Laura Palmer’s hoo-haw in the opening scene of Twin Peaks. Your disembodied hand would be flailing about and grasping at air. It would then settle down and come to rest. It lays itself palm up and then there is a scratchy recording playing of “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime”.
Nice. An actual David Lynch one would have some dreary music playing in the background and when you stuck your hand in the mailbox it would magically appear out of Laura Palmer’s hoo-haw in the opening scene of Twin Peaks. Your disembodied hand would be flailing about and grasping at air. It would then settle down and come to rest. It lays itself palm up and then there is a scratchy recording playing of “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime”.
I was so damned proud of that comment it bore repeating. I don’t do fiction (much).
You’re right, my bad. I knew something was off there and I didn’t go look before opening my fat fingertips.
I would watch the shit out of that.
as would i as would i.
Disney – You will wear the mask. If you don’t, we’ll digitally add it for you.
https://wdwnt.com/2020/12/photo-walt-disney-world-now-placing-digital-face-masks-over-maskless-guests-in-on-ride-photos/
This has got to be one of the absolute stupidest things I’ve ever heard.
They’ll be stepping up that practice come March. Who wants to go to Florida and wear what’ll turn into a hot bacteria laden growth medium inside of twenty minutes?
Virtue. Signaled.
Now if we just apply that tech to LE facial-recognizion software…
Coming to the Western countries in no time.
China Tells Cabin Crew to Wear Diapers on Risky Covid Flights
China’s aviation regulator is recommending cabin crew on charter flights to high-risk Covid-19 destinations wear disposable diapers and avoid using the bathroom to reduce the risk of infection.
“Do you like to fly?”
“Depends.”
Can you Golf in them? It Depends…..
The first one who smelt it, dealt it.
Disney – You will wear the mask. If you don’t, we’ll digitally add it for you.
DEEPFAKE
https://twitter.com/graduatedben/status/1336508172094279681?s=21
It’s not about morality, it’s about $$$. They’d grind up the hipsters that tend to like Apple and sell them at McDonald’s if they could make money doing that.
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I see what you did there.
The Chang’e 5 ascent stage blasted off from the moon’s surface on Friday, leaving behind the lander module flying the Chinese flag, according to the China National Space Agency, which also released a photo taken by the orbiter showing it approaching for its rendezvous with the ascender, a sliver of the Earth seen in the background.
Prediction: This will be used to cement a Chinese claim to the Moon.
Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia’s remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation’s space agency said on Sunday.
Six years to traverse the Outback? That’s a short trip.
Yes, I read the rest of the article. They didn’t actually spend six years in the Outback. I just wanted an excuse to reference a display I saw at the Darwin Aviation Museum about a damaged Second World War aircraft.
The plane was flyable, but could not be fixed at Darwin. It was damaged during some air battle in or near Darwin during the Second World War. It could be fixed in Brisbane. A pilot volunteered to fly it to Brisbane. He never arrived. Folks searched the Outback for him and the plane, but didn’t find him or the plane until fifty years later. In the 90s, a ranger patrolling some parkland in rural Queensland found him and the plane.
So, did he win a Darwin Award?
Sadly, the display didn’t say.
The monolith thing reminds me of the clown thing a few years ago.
the string of scary clown appearances was honestly my favorite news thing of the last 10 years.
I’m reminded of the satanic panic from the 80’s. Spin the record back-wards and it croons “Here’s to my Sweet Satan”. Tipper Gore, everyone! Wife of the intertubes!
At least her ex is still trying to fight ManBearPig.
panic? how do you think I acquired my cult following to faithfully serve our dark lord?
Heh, that was Stairway to Heaven. Sounded maybe kind of like that if you were already primed for hearing it that way and like gibberish otherwise.
I was in my 20’s and already well rid of that particular tune. Frank Zappa slayed them in the hearings and that was that.
Dont forget ‘Snowblind’ by Styx
True Story: I played a Sesame Street record backwards and it said “Meet Colonel Mustard at the bus stop”.
Dark.
The more I read about the vaccine the more and more I’m convinced it isn’t effective and we are basically taking a placebo.
The cure for the common cold!
It’ll cure the cold in seven days!
Who are you? Brendan Fraser?!
oops, FS’d link.
Interestingly enough The Univesity of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC, which owns a shit ton of hospitals and medical practices in PA (and I think WV and OH), has stated publicly that they will not require their employees to get the vaccine, stating that they are waiting for more information and clinical results. They seem to be taking a reasonable and scientific approach. Oh, and also not exposing themselves to the liability of requiring employess to take an action that might potentially harm them. (or help them, I have no opinion on the vaccines available other than that I will wait as long as I can to get it so that I can see what the results are in the general population first. I am not, in general, an early adopter of anything, especially medical stuff)
Wonder how long it’ll be before Gauleiter Wolf comes down hard on them.
RC Dean yesterday said his hospital was not going to mandate the vaccine either.
I recalled that when I read the UPMC statement. It’s a reasonable take. I’d be interested to hear from RC how much liability a business could have (including a health care business, but in general, too) regarding a mandated vaccination of employees.
My hospital is not mandating the vax, but it is proclaiming it to be the greatest thing since sliced bread
I suspect this will change because I suspect the hospital won’t be allowed to make that call for themselves.
My neighbor, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, tells me one (or more?) of these vaccines is doing something with mRNA which has never been tried before. She says there’s no way she’ll take it until several million other people show no ill effects for several years.
I’m almost certainly going to take the vaccine, because it’s virtually certain that in order to have a chance to live your life as you see fit (IE, ever get on an airplane again), you’ll be forced to take it.
After 2020, the idea that we’re ever gonna see the “kid gloves” approach with something like this ever again seems quite unlikely.
I hope it doesn’t kill, or seriously sicken me. I doubt seriously the ‘vid would be likely to do either.
The vaccine doesn’t have to be effective at all. It’s a chance for the society and governments to snap out of the state of mass psychosis without admitting their horrendous errors and crimes. Nobody wants to admit that he was a complete moron by following social distancing rules and wearing masks for more than a year for no good reason whatsoever hiding from the virus that’s only mildly inconvenient for most of the people.
there isn’t going to be any going back until the right people start missing paychecks.
Mood down, dick up. I suppose it’s really bad that I find this just a little amusing.
“Dear Anne: I’m depressed because my wife just died, and now I’ve got a boner I can’t stop!”
The more I read about the vaccine the more and more I’m convinced it isn’t effective and we are basically taking a placebo.
Wut???!
99.9764% effective! And it makes your dick HUGE!
I assume that counts as a response to both posts 64 *and* 65.
60% of the time it works every time.
Depressing start to the day. Professional society I’m a member of is voting to end its independence and become a subsidiary of an industry group controlled by the largest companies of the industry. Not surprising as it’s been the general trend of the society but still sad to see it happen now.
I suspect it will pass but if it doesn’t, the society’s professional staff and corporate controlled board will engineer a revote later.
I also don’t believe the carefully worded statements of the board both defending the “merger” (really acquisition) or the current and long term financial outlook of the society. I think the truth is their annual moneymaker (tradeshow and conference) was gone this year, probably next year, and a desire by bill payers to shift to a different less costly format in the future. Probably some number of already incurred expenses associated but the loss of revenue (really profit and cross subsidy to the rest of the org) is the big thing. And there’s no acknowledgement of it other than platitudes like any other corporate merger.
Okay… So um, would you mind coming in on Saturday? That would be greeeaaat. Been there, living it. Sorry Gus.
Thank you. I too have lived out the reality of acquisitions in my work life. Rarely did it ever result in positive change. I’ve become one of those cynical crusty guys I used to thumb my nose at when I was younger. I do try not to roll my eyes except with a few close samethinking friends and associates.
My neighbor, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, tells me one (or more?) of these vaccines is doing something with mRNA which has never been tried before. She says there’s no way she’ll take it until several million other people show no ill effects for several years.
LUDDITE! Primitivist know-nothing!
No, now that Beijing Joe is in charge all things are right with the world and everything has been rendered safe and good.
Alright. I’m out. time to eat, sleep and shit in no particular order. Thank you all for the birthday vibes and know that they are returned ten-fold. My row may be hard to hoe but there are new hires wearing yoga pants on the line. Jiminy Crickets… dirty old man just got one year older;-)
From the dead thread:
This is a prime example of how very smart people can get things outside of their area of expertise so very wrong.
For a star to go supernova, it has to have a mass about triple that of the sun. And even then, it would take several billion years to fuse most of its hydrogen into helium, and then fuse the helium, until it was left with a critical mass of unfuseable iron.
The only way the sun could go supernova would be if another star of at least double the mass of the sun somehow flew into the solar system and did a direct hit of the sun. At which point a theoretical supernova several billion years later would not be a problem, since such a direct hit on the sun would result in all life on earth being snuffed out rather quickly.