Friday Afternoon Apathetic Links
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
None of those options cover my current feelz.
I demand validation!
Parking around here is expensive.
STEVE AM READY TO VALIDATE, AND HAVE PARKING IN REAR.
WHEN STEVE SMITH VISIT DISNEYLAND HE PARK IN POOH LOT.
I need a Glib (and therfore pedantic) ruling on this. When is it appropriate to use “Invented” vs “Discovered” vs “Created”?
Created if he was a director or producer. Written or coded if he actually programmed it or a significant portion thereof.
I reserve “invented” for physical devices or, in some cases, algorithms. To me, “discovered” should only be used for principles (of natural science, or perhaps stretched to music theory) or previously unknown lands, planets, stars, or artifacts. “Created” to me means a person had the root idea that led to a story, movement, class of technology, or piece of art, music, literature, etc.
To elaborate: “Discovered” in my mind implies finding something that already existed. “Invented” is for things that didn’t exist and are of mostly a physical nature, where “created” is like “invented” but more abstract, except in the case of individual works of art/music/literature.
Create — Creative works: word, music, images, physical art (sculpture, etc) — extendible to fashion, architecture, etc
Invent — Innovation in devices, appliances, systems, and methods
Discovery — identifying something that already exists, but which had not previously been identified.
Blurred lines — writing AI software that produces creative works
Much more succinct than me. And I agree.
Doesn’t matter. It’s all infrastructure now.
Infrastructure spending isn’t about getting infrastructure; it’s about generating employment and paying off the infrastructure providers that will reliably support the politicians’ election funds.
So therefore, me wasting a bunch of time and words is not a waste, as long as my time was occupied, by the logic of infrastructure fetishists.
“You get some infrastructure, and you get some infrastructure, and you get some infrastructure!”
/Oprah OFF
as long as my time was occupied
This should be the mantra of 1st world countries. Let us unite.
Let me toss another word into the hopper: designed.
The way I conceptualize it, Design is before Invent, which is before Create.
These are paired up with nouns. Idea, Invention, and Product.
First, the design phase results in an idea being whiteboarded/back of napkined/flowcharted/whatever. Taking a building as an example, this results in the concept drawings.
Second, the inventing phase results in a detailed documentation of the invention. There are detailed solutions to technical problems in this phase. You can hand the documentation to a SME and they can build it. In the building example, these are the blueprints.
Finally, the creating phase results in an actual product. This is pretty self explanatory.
Discovering is, as others have mentioned, related to pre-existing things that are found and formalized.
The article about Takaya Imamura is interesting.
About the Lenin article: I’ve been working my way through the Great War channel. I’ve made it up to their coverage of January, 1918. The Bolsheviks have come up often. What scum.
“Wolf Totem” is a good song.
grizzly, you asked about Pelham, NH and masks. I have heard nothing about Pelham considering a mask ordinance and can find nothing about the town considering such an ordinance.
Thanks. Hope it stands that way.
I watched the music link about five minutes ago, but feel like I need another one already.
I keep forgetting how Germany managed to lose WWI after defeating Russia and occupying Ukraine and Belarus. Must be a stab in the back.
Good ole lying Woodrow Wilson was a good chunk of it. If we’d stayed out and either insisted on trading with *both* sides [ignoring the British blockade or embargo’ing them as long as they were blockading the Central Powers] or neither, I think an exhausted negotiated peace was very likely on the Western Front.
Propping up Britain and France economically and then using the Lusitania and Zimmerman incidents to bring us in was enough to tip the balance mainly because we weren’t exhausted like everyone else. And then we got all those wonderful draft-based Supreme Court decisions (“can’t shout fire”, etc.) out of it. Yay.
They did offer peace in 1916 and a return to the pre-war borders. The UK and France were crazy and evil to reject it. Casually threw away another generation of their men.
https://www.historynet.com/did-the-germans-try-to-make-peace-in-1916.htm
Must be a stab in the back.
By the commies. The Germans were losing the war, but then the commies decided to revolt and the government was overthrown before the war could be ended, arguably resulting in the Germans having to settle for stricter terms at Versailles than otherwise. There’s a good case that the left-wing revolution in Germany directly led to the Nazis and WW2. More fallout from the Kaiser’s government sending Lenin to Russia, as the left-wing Germans were in part inspired by Lenin’s success.
I’m musing on the Democratic plan to pack the courts. I remember when i was in high school, this was one of the only knocks you would hear about FDR in an American history class. But anyway. It is amusing to me that the argument they put forward is “Trump shifted the balance of the court by replacing RBG with a conservative, and we need to restore that balance by adding 4 new justices!”
Trump “packed the courts” by filling vacancies
My Left Friends: Why are politics so polarizing?
Also My Left Friends: We need to do whatever we can to make sure those racist, sexist, homophobic Republicans can never ever regain power.
Make politics a sterile, boring distraction again.
I hope they’re familiar with the concept of blowback.
Given that the neo-cons are drifting over to the Democrats, I’m sure they’ll unlearn anything they might have known about that concept.
The left absolutely refuses to admit that anything they have done didn’t work. It can never be their fault, and so they will constantly do things that are just f’ing stupid and will only make the political situation worse. Vietnam? Nixons fault, no matter that it was Johnson who got us in there. Rent control is screwing things up? It can’t be that, it is the damn gentrifiers! Did communism kill 100 million? Wasn’t real Communism!
That is one of the biggest problems. If they are never held responsible for the fuckups, they will never get better.
If they are never held responsible for the fuckups, they will never get better.
Why do you think they love government? You fuck up most anywhere else and you sure as hell are gonna get held responsible. But you fuck up in government and you’re probably going to get promoted. It’s better than being in a family, because there is no mom or dad there to smack you upside the head.
Just got back from the Fred Meyer in Wasilla, where I (hopefully) stocked up a couple of week’s worth of groceries. Despite a big sign saying “MASKS REQUIRED, KROGER CORPORATE POLICY, YADDA YADDA YADDA” about two-thirds of the customers and maybe one in five of the employees were maskless. Last couple times I’ve been in Willow, to the post office, liquor store or the Trading Post, not a mask in sight.
Yup. The Matanuska-Sustina Borough has pretty much hit “fuck it.”
Hooray for our last frontier.
Where’s our candid Palin pic?
Working on it.
On my one trip to Wasilla we drove by their City Hall, where Palin had been mayor.
The City Hall building was a Quonset Hut.
Have they replaced that? It was about ten years ago when we were there.
Fuck editors
https://www.foxnews.com/health/6k-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-got-virus
NearlyFewer than 6K out of 66M fully vaccinated Americans got COVID-19– out of 66M: CDCFewer than one in 11,000 people got the bug anyway. I expect none of them died.
Scare mongering instead of celebration.
So far, 74 people have died from breakthrough infections — but it’s not clear which vaccine they received, if the patients came from high-risk groups or if there were any other circumstances contributing to the deaths.
I guess I could have read the actual article before commenting.
Read the article before commenting? Fuck all of that noise and just go with your gut.
Huh, a quick one week rolling numbers crunching from CDC data shows a roughly one death per 88 Covid diagnoses which isn’t much higher than the one in 81 deaths from the infected vaccination bunch. If you don’t get immunity it looks like you flat out don’t get protection at all but the old are probably over represented there too so who knows.
You would think that with only 74 cases to deal with someone could review them all and answer those questions, don’t you?
My suspicion is that someone did review the cases and the results don’t help the narrative. So they are playing dumb. And if you asked for the details they will stonewall you.
I’ll say that they were all very old or sick and had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
I’d also be interested to hear more about how they tested these break through cases. Given the high level of false positives, did they maybe re-test to be sure?
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO GO OVER EDITORS…. AND BY GO OVER….
Majora’s Mask is an all-time favorite of mine. It was the second Zelda game that I beat (after the original) and holds a special place in my heart. When I was a kid, I subscribed to Nintendo Power and one of the “freebies” for resubscribing was the Majora’s Mask soundtrack. I still have it in my CD case. That series has some awesome music, and I love the dark tone of MM. It is a game of despair with some glimmers of hope that pop in. Wow. Major nostalgia trip. Thanks for that, Riven!
I still haven’t beaten MM; I probably never will at this point. But I did play a good bit of it, and it just seems like such a dark horse of the Zelda universe. /jealous of that soundtrack, btw
Ontario was just put on double secret lockdown probation. Cases could reach 30,000 a day if we don’t ban golfing for 6 more weeks!!!
On another side, does anyone here listen to the Watchdog on Wall Street daily podcast? The hosts name is Chris Markowski. One of my favorite daily podcasts.
Stay inside out of the fresh air and sunshine! Get fatter and lazier!
It is the only way you can be sure to live through the next few weeks.
Too Local News Lazy Edition: More from Andrew Manuse
ReopenNH welcomes the end of the unnecessary and unlawful statewide mask mandate, but the governor’s vain gesture in allowing Emergency Order 74 to expire today merely pretends to restore rights that Granite Staters never actually lost, but many forfeited unknowingly.
“Do not for one moment think that this governor is somehow doling out liberty to New Hampshire and he ought to be thanked for finally letting us have our freedom back,” said Andrew J. Manuse, chairman of RebuildNH. “The mask mandate was unlawful from the beginning, along with several other emergency orders that are still in place, and this governor ought to be apologizing for overstepping his authority, if nothing else.”
Riven, lucky for you that your begging page didn’t do any real checking when it came to collecting $$.
Tell your charity to be less picky about where their money is coming from. You don’t need the address of anyone trying to help cure cancer. Do you?
With my luck, my $5 will be the fin that cures Trump of cancer and then I’ll be in huge trouble.
I feel lucky 😛 But many thanks.
Michigan: masking, social distancing forever.
The tyrants have finally found the excuse they need.
Jesus, what a crock of shit.
Holy crap…
Well, I can sure think of *something* the public could do… everyone either leaving the state or refusing to pay taxes leaps to mind (as do lampposts, to be fair…).
That’s just nuts — it looks like articles of impeachment were filed back in November… but not seeing much as to what happened with that. I certainly can’t think of a clearer case for a Legislature needing to step up and remind someone that Governor != Queen.
That’s getting into tar and feathers territory.
Oh, come on. Tar and feathers? Over a political difference? This is the enlightened twenty-first century! Tar and feathers, indeed.
We have woodchippers now. Technology, you know. Much more efficient.
Fuck Whitmer.
I thought she had shown a few signs of sense recently when she was refusing to lockdown again for Fauci.
What happened? Did she sober up and realize that no high is as sweet as authoritarianism?
You don’t usually see this level of stupidity and malevolence combined in a single event.
Even though the Chinese may have stolen the concept from us, I feel that it’s still needed in these lockdown times.
Zoom/Happy Hour/Article brainstorming will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.
Are the Chinese worried because they are culturally appropriating Japanese culture?
Gotta hand it to the Nipponese, they like to get knee walking drunk.
HA! But they don’t have The Hyperbole. (unless he is two timing us)
My favourite song from The Hu — “Shireg Shireg”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNCx4n2m5_o
Weird question:
When you read a work of fiction, and the author describes a scene where someone is performing an original (doesn’t exist in the real world outside the story) song, or maybe singing under their breath, or similar, and they write the words of the song out, how do you read that? I have always stumbled across passages like that within prose because I find it impossible to put the words to music in my head. I actually end up stopping and thinking about it, and inevitably I give up and keep reading the story, but it breaks the flow of the story up so badly for me that often I just stop reading and come back later. Sometimes I just skim over the song to keep from having this happen.
Anyone else? It’s kind of jarring for me sometimes.
Also happens for me when the song does exist in the real world but I don’t know it.
Yeah. I often skim over them too, because i do the same thing as you and try to figure out the meter that it is supposed to be sung at and such.
Same here. I can only read a song or a poem at the speed of speaking, which is like 10 times slower than reading.
I skip right over it. Songs are next to poetry and totally for sissies only.
Skip them.
It’s why I couldn’t stand Tolkien.
So to steer away from commenting on politics. This week I have tried out sutting down my electronics at 9:00 PM. It has given me more time to read (something i really haven’t been doing for a while now) and i’m falling asleep far earlier and sleeping much better. It is easier to get up early. It’s been a solid change and i think i’m going to keep up with it.
I’ve been trying to do that lately. Going to bed all jazzed up on electronics and reading the latest outrage wasn’t giving me a good night of rest.
I like this idea. I have been toying with something like this for a while, but haven’t given it a try. I have also thought about plugging my phone in across the room to reduce the likelihood of accidentally picking it up. That would also make me have to get up to turn off the alarm.
I’ve been doing this for the past few weeks (at least, as long as a Kindle doesn’t count as “electronics”). I think I sleep better, but my problem is when I read I lose track of time and don’t necessarily get to sleep earlier.
Also, once I get in bed, I stop drinking. Although I’ve been on a “no nightcaps” regime (one stout happy hour drink and I’m done) for the past few weeks as well.
I’ll fall asleep holding my Kindle. Never had that happen with a phone. There’s something about that back-lit screen that keeps me awake, no matter how dim I make it.
Frankly, I think that 6 hours of sleep after reading is better than 9 hours of sleep after screwing around on my phone, so I don’t worry too much about reading until midnight or 1am and having to get up at 6am. Yeah, I don’t want to do that two nights in a row, but my body tends to self regulate in that regard.
I have a personal rule of no electronics upstairs, where the bedrooms are. Every night I read before turning out the light, one page or twenty, it doesn’t matter. But that has helped me sleep, as it tells my brain that it is time to slow down.
I watch “oddly satisfying” videos on my phone to put me to sleep.
That’s barely a euphemism!
Geraldo is on The Five. He’s either drunk or suffering from a stroke.
Geraldo is an ancient submoronic grifter. If he’s saying stupid shit there’s no drunkenness or cerebro-vascular incidents required.
It wasn’t the content, it was the blathering way he was talking. Something wasn’t right.
He found Al Capone’s Wine Cellar?
nice
It’s empty now.
Ah the good old days but the high point of his career was definitely when the white supremacist broke his nose with a chair. I hate those kinds of shows but I’ll be damned if that wasn’t good television.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Traitor Joe the senile retard is running his mouth live.
Jesus Christ. Traitor Joe just called Hideki Matsuyama a “Japanese boy”. Is anyone going to call out his racist shit? No, of course not.
LOL, I had to look up who that was. That’s a nice gaffe there.
https://twitter.com/philipwegmann/status/1383166723952676865?s=21
Now PM Suga is talking about his discussion with Traitor Joe over anti Asian violence and saying there’s no place for race based discrimination. ?
Hopefully we get out of this one without going to war with Japan.
What does he consider race based discrimination? Is he talking about university admissions quotas?
Not senility, just good old Joe.
State bureaucrats are moving to impose permanent regulations that would mandate the following and more on all Michigan businesses: mask wearing whenever employees are within six feet of someone else, daily health screenings, extensive record keeping, and keeping a “COVID-19 safety coordinator” on-site. Retail stores, personal care services, and other businesses open to the public would have to become the mask police: They would be required to make all customers wear masks, vaccinated or not.
What the everloving fuck?
They would be required to make all customers wear masks, vaccinated or not.
Nothing like making the case that the vaccine doesn’t matter. These people really are imbeciles, aren’t they?
The guy who was arrested in Minnesoda after a mask kerfuffle has been charged and more details of the case have come out.
I’m sure the only reason he wasn’t shot was because he had a cop trapped right next to him.
Hard to stick up for this guy.
Yeah, a more appropriate response: “Soo … you’re gonna shut down this checkout lane while you put all these perishable foods back? Cause I’m leaving without buying anything if you keep insisting.”
This is why I now use the self checkout lane after shopping maskless – no gatekeeper to belatedly try to enforce a stupid policy at the last possible moment.
You know who I can stick up for? A hero who defied King Walz
In short, a gal (a cute one at that) had one bar where she defied lockdown orders. She also owned another bar in another town and that bar didn’t violate the lockdown (not sure why). The city council in City 2 just voted to not renew her liquor permit because she defied King Walz in City 1.
Lots of juicy soundbites in this story.
Also this
This is why I couldn’t own a bar. I couldn’t survive a city council meeting where uptight assholes got to fuck my economic livelihood over.
Grabau and Elliot should both be decorating lampposts.
Maybe she was trying to sucker them into a lawsuit. Denying a bar that was following the rules a license seems arbitrary and capricious but IANAL.
Smaller scale (no license removal yet) here in Cleveland. One guy owns two places here, one opened up as soon as they were able last year, and does the bare minimum to follow the arbitrary rules (the week that dining was only allowed for patios, he opened the front and back garage doors and claimed the entire establishment was then a patio). The second establishment (in another part of town, different concept, much smaller) has not yet re-opened. However, the closed establishments has still gotten complaints called into the health department that the staff wasn’t wearing masks and was not following the ‘vid rules.
Dining is done in a lot of places. Stick a fork in it. I don’t see this shit ever ending. Not when a single Karen can shut them down on a whim.
This place isn’t even open for business, not even take out. But they were still getting complaints called in about them.
Local news did just run a piece about how hard it is to hire help for the restaurants and bars.
has still gotten complaints called into the health department
Yeah, so the problem isn’t so much the arbitrary govt as the fuckwad snitches.
I hope she fights back. If she does and you hear about a legal defense fund, let us know. I’ll donate.
Hard to stick up for this guy.
Wrong target, that’s all.
This is an exercise in requiring unquestioning obedience to the government, no matter how absurd or illogical the command.
Dead public health experts deserve not a single tear.
Ya Boi Zac getting extra salty reviewing current comics ;p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hWWBVYILE
If you ask me, these black victims of police abuse deserve more in compensation than Floyd’s family did. Still it is nice they got something.
St. Paul cops broke into a house as part of a no-knock raid and shot the couple’s two dogs. Turns out that the family was not a major drug operation and the police coughed up $70K as compensation. Of course part of that is that the cops don’t have to admit any fault.
So it took this what ought to be a slam dunk case 7 years to get resolved? Yay civil court system I guess.
Worse yet, at $70k settlement, they’ll be lucky to net enough after legal fees to buy a can of Alpo.
Although it doesn’t sound like they need a can of Alpo any more.
Wouldn’t put it past the city to argue that the settlement should be reduced by the inflation adjusted food and veterinary expenses saved by capping the doggies. Also, to consider the canine actuarial tables in calculating the expected remaining life of the dogs at the time of their early demise.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5cyYCHLcU
She seems fun.
Now. Entering. Sleep. Mode…
CNN headline: “Nearly half of US states reported an increase in Covid-19 cases this week.”
Sooo … most states reported a decrease in Commie Cough cases.
Also if you look at the overall graph it looks nothing like a major spike. it’s so so far down.
And yet, no headlines anywhere that read, “Covid cases down 70% from peak!”
I mean I’m a little surprised it’s as high as it is.
I did a little math and about 1 in 3 Americans have either had covid or a vaccine.
Neither is full proof, mind you (esp the latter) but I would think this thing would be a tiny blip right now.
Prediction: The U.S. reaches some sort of herd immunity threshold through vaccinations, just in time for a huge portion of the vaccinated to be in need of the one-year booster shot (per the musings of that Pfizer CEO). Thus, no more herd immunity, and governments need to keep the shut-down on. Repeat yearly. Forever.
“Cases” is not a measure of anything real. If you can double a “health” metric by doubling the amount of testing, that metric does not measure public health at all.
Alternate headline: Nearly half of the current increase is due to one state, Michigan.
Are we talking clinical cases or PCR testing kits?
All states that had increased are also the states that approved the shittier-than-the-shitty-PCR 10-minute cv19 tests which are the equivalent of patent medicine. The states that haven’t approved these shitty tests have seen case drops.
They have a 10 min PCR test? How is that even possible?
Not sure if drugs will fall out of my keister, but if anybody didn’t see this paper on mask effectiveness, please read it now, and weep for your “science.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
The physical properties of medical and non-medical facemasks suggest that facemasks are ineffective to block viral particles due to their difference in scales [16], [17], [25]. According to the current knowledge, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16], [17], while medical and non-medical facemasks’ thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440 µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger [25]. Due to the difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter (the virus is 1000 times smaller), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask [25]. In addition, the efficiency filtration rate of facemasks is poor, ranging from 0.7% in non-surgical, cotton-gauze woven mask to 26% in cotton sweeter material [2]. With respect to surgical and N95 medical facemasks, the efficiency filtration rate falls to 15% and 58%, respectively when even small gap between the mask and the face exists [25
Now, I do feel the need to be careful, as this study basically validates every fucking thought I have had about masks over the last year, but it gives good resources, ample sites and is just a well done bit of research.
And a properly fitted N95 is 95% effective – for ONE exposure. Replace it with a new mask and get another exposure and the effectiveness is .95 x .95 or 90%.
Now do ten exposures: .95^10. 60%
Even with the best masks, they are pointless after a few weeks.
NH Laurie List might become public
A significant milestone for police reform arrived Thursday, with widespread support emerging for a bill to make public the names of all officers whose credibility could be questioned at trial.
The private negotiations of leaders in law enforcement, media, civil liberties, and human rights advocates produced a compromise that a bipartisan group of state senators sponsored.
No uniform standard exists for placing officers on the so-called Laurie List, formally known as the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule (EES), and officers have no right to appeal that decision. This bill would give officers the right to challenge being put on the list.
The plan was offered as an amendment to a House-passed bill (HB 471) that would make public the disciplinary hearings before the state Police Standards and Training Council regarding police officers.
Style over substance strikes again
A rash of new voting legislation has caused an uproar among progressive activists, leading to some big businesses to take a political stance. Some corporations and executives have voiced opposition to the new bills, most notably in Georgia.
Amazon, General Motors, and others released a joint statement in opposition to voting restrictions. Earlier in the month, Major League Baseball reportedly moved the All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest of the new bill, and the CEO of Delta Airlines said the voting law was “unacceptable.”
“Well, the corporations obviously have no idea what they’re talking about because [from] many of their objections, it’s pretty clear they haven’t actually read the bill,” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky said.
“They don’t seem to understand that, that … the requirements of Georgia law are really not that much different from numerous other states across the country,” he said. “In fact, in some aspects, their law is less strict than places like New York and New Jersey.”
It doesn’t matter what the law actually says, so long as they are seen as caring and serious..
Blah blah blah may or may not
A group of ultraconservative House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., are discussing launching an “America First Caucus” that would protect “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told reporters Friday that he’s “looking at” joining.
“There is an America First Caucus,” he said, confirming that Greene is involved.
The formation of a caucus could be another sign of an emboldened faction of House Republicans who are known for nativist ideas and have been criticized by Democrats as racist.
It wouldn’t matter if they wanted to express their completely innocuous theoretical support for the notion of the American Melting pot and representative government as a generic concept, they will be smeared and vilified.
Why wait to see what they actually say they want?
Alternate headline: Nearly half of the current increase is due to one state, Michigan.
There is only one reasonable conclusion: masks and lockdowns cause the plague to spread.
That really is starting to look like the case.
Or… that Michigan sucks so hard it’s bringing in the ‘vid from everywhere else.
How is the testing done in Michigan?
Honestly, I have no idea.
It was just a cheap joke at the expense of Michigan, as I live in Ohio. The two states have had a rivalry ever since they went to war over a port. The question is who really won, since Ohio has Toledo now.
So Michigan won then.
Pcr quick tests for all 13-19 year olds at least once a week if you want to play sports. I’m not shitting you
Dream big. Comrades
Next week, President Biden will announce a number that could shape the rest of his presidency: a new goal to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
The announcement marks the country’s renewed commitment to the Paris accord, the international climate change agreement that former President Donald Trump withdrew from. Environmental groups, scientists and major business leaders are urging the Biden administration to cut emissions 50% by 2030, as compared to 2005 levels.
That target lines up with scientific assessments of the reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. To limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, emissions need to drop to net-zero by 2050. Above that and sea levels rise to extreme heights, heat waves get more intense, and hurricanes and wildfires become even more destructive.
Repent! The end is nigh!
We luvs us some apocalypse porn down here at NPR. And saviors.
The end that is always nigh, is of course nigh. It has always been nigh. It will be nigh until the day it is no longer nigh. How is nigh affected by daylight saving?
I count at least four words in that sentence that need scare quotes.
I hope the Rona doesn’t kill me any time soon because I want to be here to see the looks on people’s faces when the unintended consequences of forcing everyone to drive an electric car powered by solar energy collides with Bill Gates cool geoengineering plan to scatter dust into the atmosphere in order to reduce sunlight and cool the earth.
The “fact check” about Bill Gates’ geoengineering project in Newsweek is awesome!
Well I’m glad he doesn’t want to block all sunlight from reaching earth.
Sometimes the cagey denials don’t reassure me.
Still, achieving that target by 2030 won’t be simple, requiring both political buy-in and a sweeping deployment of cleaner cars and clean energy sources.
“It’s pretty ambitious,” says Danielle Arostegui, senior analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund. “This is not an easy target to achieve but we think it is something that is achievable if we really put the pedal to the metal here and put these policies in place that we need to actually get there.”
We are extremely pleased with our current project of training the public to swallow any preposterous balderdash we come up with, as long as we dress it up as SCIENCE and appeal to their need to be seen as caring and kind.
Narrator: that target won’t be achieved, no matter what.
I hear there are no emissions created by junking the entire existing automobile inventory and manufacturing millions of electric vehicles to replace it.
Comrade, the line to apply for the waiting list for a new car is over there. Be sure to have your papers ready.
In the meantime, The People’s busses and trains are more than good enough. Right, comrade?
They say that as if there are no individuals out there who make choices about buying cars and maintaining them. No consideration other than “deploy new cars.” Like it will happen as a matter of fact. The language these people speak and the underlying premises are wholly unrooted in reality.
What would it take? Based on research from universities and advocacy groups, here’s what the U.S. might look like in 2030.
Aaaaand done.
Narrator: That’s not what the US will look like in 2030.
In fact, it would be smart money to find a sucker willing to bet on that.
Headline: Michigan is expanding mask mandate to include 2 and 3 year olds.
Finally, common sense toddler control; it’s about time.
Good gravy I hate my state right now.
Last year when I asked myself which state would go the furthest authoritarian out of this, Michigan didn’t even enter my mind.
It’s always the quiet ones.
Wasn’t on my bingo card either.
If you’re feeling thirsty.
After the first link went to a Resident Evil article, I was half expecting this link to be about people simping for Lady Dimitrescu.
Funny you say that.
This almost made it into the links the other day. (Before I got too busy to put them together)
So is the private Woke-piscopalian school in NYC going to fire the whistleblower teacher or not? They said they wouldn’t, but maybe they’d like to.
And I can’t imagine a HS teacher having tenure, so why don’t they just fire him without more fuss?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9479781/NYC-math-teacher-told-stay-home-speaking-against-woke-private-school.html
Of course, the whistleblower says they have race-segregated meetings for students and teachers – does this mean the IRS will give them the Bob Jones treatment and revoke their tax exemption (SPOILER: I suspect not)?
I do appreciate that the school principal looks like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
Good news and bad news from OMWC’s recent trip.
Good News: OMWC didn’t cheat on SP …
Bad News: with another girl
*If you were in the area, you could have told us. Tundra might even have shown up since you left SP behind.
You should have said “good news and baaaad news.”
Coincidentally, our company’s acting president wants me to take a trip to MN with her in the next month or so. So Tundra will have a chance to snub me personally.
We are getting lambs next week.
No shit, some of them (not ours) would sell for 10K US$
The language these people speak and the underlying premises are wholly unrooted in reality.
Once we have our Stalinist command-and-control economy up and running your needs (as we see them) will all be met, Comrade.
Oh really? More Minnesoda sinners died than usual in 2020
Or maybe, you could just take away King Walz’s dials and stop trying to scare everyone about the Rona?
People forced to sit around the house with nowhere to go are going to drink to pass the time and fight the boredom, no doubt.
“This is the story of Billie Joe and Bobby Sue
Two young lovers with nothing better to do
Than sit around the house, get high and watch the tube..”
New state anthem?!
“MDH noted the data doesn’t include partially alcohol-attributable causes of death where alcohol was just one of several factors contributing to death.”
…which are all counted as COVID deaths.
Have we noted how much actual overall deaths were up last year? I still can’t get good data on that.
Saw something the other day that initial numbers show total deaths this year are down. Suggesting folks went a little earlier last year due to the ‘vid.
Sweet fucking Zombie Cheebus.
Hulu just added a movie and is recommending it… Songbird. Let me just put the synopsis here for you:
Who the fuck thinks this would be a good idea?
I’ve seen a couple of YouTubers talking about this. It actually sounds like an interesting premise for a movie depending on how they handled it (meaning they aren’t sympathetic to the idea).
This one strikes a little too close to home.
More plausible
Fuck cancer.
*deletes rant while wearing tinfoil hat about how the super smart people won’t find a cure because they make more money billing for treatment*
*waves in Alex Jones*?
Wait, what? YOU?!
Wut?