Womp womp!
The Minnesoooooooda WIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLDDDDD Live to play another day and might pull the series win off. ManUre lost in a penalty shootout with David DeGea missing the 11th kick, which is so deliciously funny I can’t stop laughing. #firekevinwarren should be trending again until the stupid sonofabitch actually gets fired. The Astros stopped their slide by beating the Dodgers. And a rain delay was the highlight of the night at Nationals Park. Not all heroes wear capes. Or pants, even. And that’s sports.
The master troll
Shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on this day. That dude with an awesome name shares it with Cowboy and scout Wild Bill Hickok, detective novelist Dashiel Hammett, former VP Hubert Humphrey, golf legend Sam Snead, baseball player Harry Moore, British actor Christopher Lee, scumbag asshole Henry Kissinger, wrestling promoter Eric Bischoff, rocker Siousxie Sioux, soccer player and power drinker Paul Gascoigne, “The Big Hurt” Frank Thomas, HOF infielder Jeff Bagwell, and wide receiver Antonio Freeman.
That wasn’t bad. Now on to…the links!
So this guy is lying in the very first paragraph. He’s also speaking waaaaay out of turn. And bail for political prisoners isn’t a thing anymore in this country.
“This building brought to you by Barack Obama”
Gotta get those gun-running operations back in action. Or will we use it as a means to destabilize nations a different way this time?
This is the best “get out of work” scam I’ve seen in some time. Man, people today wouldn’t have survived shit from a couple hundred years ago. Bunch of pussies, I tell ya.
This fat fuck couldn’t chase anyone anyway.
The union ain’t gonna like this. But it should have been the policy all along. Also, they shouldn’t even be stopping people for most of the shit they pull them over for anyway. But they ain’t gonna stop that revenue-generation scheme, I bet.
I actually agree with these prosecutors. But only because the state is ignoring the actual procedure they’re supposed to follow. Also, they should immediately release anybody who is in prison for a victimless crime.
Now I’m convinced. Convinced that that number will be waaaaay off unless they stop selling vehicles in emerging economies.
I wonder whatever happened to this guy. Anyway, it’s a solid song, so enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Gotta get those gun-running operations back in action. Or will we use it as a means to destabilize nations a different way this time? – look if you stop going how are people going to blame America for everything?
This is the best “get out of work” scam I’ve seen in some time. Man, people today wouldn’t have survived shit from a couple hundred years ago. Bunch of pussies, I tell ya. – was any recent noose anything but a fake?
Not that I can recall.
[Unabashedly OT, carry-over from end of last thread] ::wraps Sean in a big hug and plants a kiss on his (facial) cheek for donating to her friend’s cancer treatment GoFundMe::
*blushes*
Which cheeks?
I’d kiss that man between the cheeks.
Tobias, you blow hard!
Default assumption when you hear this shit is that it is a scam..
Noose-gate might be the stupidest American obsession of the decade.
I know there is serious competition but this is just so goddamn stupid I can’t even.
Poop-swastika?
Shitler haz disappoint.
::narrows gaze::
Schweizeral Appropriation
That’s better than Schwarzeral.
?
Perhaps just ripping them down immediately and not giving the idiot troll/hoaxer who is putting them up any satisfaction of their impact would quell the issue …
Without seeing it, could be a temp cable tie…
That there are so many of them could be a clue as to their construction use.
And then “bicycling is racist” swoops in below and we have another contender…
What are the odds this “noose” was used in running the cabling by which it was found?
Like I said WHEN I PUT THIS STORY IN SUNDAY’S LINKS, this is clearly a union setup.
And bail for political prisoners isn’t a thing anymore in this country.
Totally not a banana republic.
Banana republics tend to have a multi tier law system, where there is a different system for those in power, those connected to those in power, the rabble, and finally the enemies of the state, with each group as you traverse that pyramid losing a ton of rights/privilege’s/protections as you go down towards the enemies of the state…
They definitely don’t have any reasonable prosecutors.
The people that think the law is fair when these people let out the “mostly peaceful protestors burning down blue cities in the name of social justice” every time they are arrested, but also clap for people that wore a Viking hat and some silly outfit giving our political class the vapors being locked up as the worst kind of terrorists, will, as this game always lays out, sooner than later find themselves being abused as well, and then realize there is nobody left to protect them. All these marxist revolutions play out the same way. The evil fuckers cheer because the first wave is always the political enemies. Then the real horror comes as the never ending waves of purges follows, and everyone that the people in power feel is a threat gets dealt with, while they all whine and cry about being real believers and having been not just supporters, but active participants in the revolution, never understanding that is precisely why the new bosses want them gone…
The Justice Department, as it argues to keep them in jail, has noted that Trump supporters — especially when they’re affiliated with extremist groups like the Proud Boys — could attempt another insurrection.
Crimes so heinous as to shock the conscience.
For me this shit is one of the bigger recent gaslighting attempts. I cannot understand how anyone reasonable can consider cosplay to be insurrection other that brain rotted by politics
They do know better and don’t believe it. With the possible exception of the terminally stupid, they’re lying.
They wish they could lock up people for just saying that there might have been some irregularities with the last election; this is the best they can do. I honestly think that if DJT and Fox News (et als) had shut up about this then those people would have gotten bail and less severe charges. What the government is really doing is sending the message that if you question the Freeist, Fairest Election Ever(tm) that you will be locked up without bail if you so much as spit a used wad of gum out your car window.
I was pretty amazed that the judge actually used the phrase “take up arms” because none of the Insurrectionists were armed with anything at all.
It sure seems to me like these judges are punishing the prisoners for their beliefs as much as for their actions.
DID YOU NOT SEE THAT VIKING PRIEST???
Of course you would be defending some dude that pretends to be a Viking, Minnesoda! You want a plundering, pillaging and horse raping culture to dominate! RACIALISM!
You need to relax. Here, have some hot dish and a piece of Grandma’s pie, it’ll make you feel better
Cut him a bit of slack Fourscore. You know how the VIkings can really upset people.
Just say Wide Left around these parts and people get haunted looks. Alex isn’t from here, so he hasn’t learned any coping mechanisms for Vikings.
Back before I quit football cause my team gave in to the wokesters and changed it’s name, I thought our revenge was to send you guys Frerotte….
Ummmm….
Did you think we would forget who inflicted Cousins on us?
Touché mon frère…
‘…could attempt another insurrection.’
Another? When was the first one, exactly?
November 2016?
A Real American would have said July 4th, 1776. When our Founding Fathers met – unmasked – in their backyards for a summer BBQ in complete disregard to King George’s rules about public gatherings.
They had already been defying stay-at-home orders for over a year.
Do they mean attempt AN INSURRECTION? Because they haven’t attempted one yet. And on what do they base this conjecture? The pre-crime unit from Minority Report?
Gotta be careful with the Proud Boys too. Those beer-drinking fraternal organizations COULD POTENTIALLY harbor straight white men who feel no guilt whatsoever at the circumstances of their birth.
The federal government is so dreadfully understaffed and powerless that a goofball with a viking helmet can just force his way in and take over the whole thing.
could attempt another insurrection.
How can you have smore of something that you have not even had?
extremist groups like the Proud Boys
“Extremist” as in a patriotic, masculine drinking club.
Trump supporters
That have been rioting in various cities destroying billions of dollars of property, terrorizing/killing people and declaring “autonomous zones”? Oh, wait, that is someone else.
was any recent noose anything but a fake?
Get back to me when they find a noose with somebody in it.
What a scam. Anybody could plant a few nooses (nooseii?) wait for the 100k reward, have a friend turn them in and collect. What are they really gonna do to a guy who says he tied them for practice? Nothing, that’s what!
It used to be that they would sabotage the equipment going into the weekend so they could start drinking early.
Nooses cause less damage I guess and work just as well.
Better read that story about the judges punishing the Insurrectionists because they like Trump, BJ.
If simple trespassing is getting those poor bastards a stint in jail with no bail, what do you think they will do to your noose-tying ass once they figure out you are a Glibertarian?
If the plural of “noose” isn’t “neese,” it should be.
A nøøse once bit my sister… no, realli!
Applause
Are you a Mexican Whooping Llama?
Remember Bill Sparkman?
I like the implication that nooses were only used by racist lynch mobs to kill black people in the United States. It’s not like they’ve been one of the main methods of capital punishment since ancient times.
And no white people were ever lynched by a mob, either. Only black people.
I was expecting this for the music link today.
https://vimeo.com/78335050
I rarely if ever do a birthday song. If I did today, that would have been it.
At least something from the group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrCzTgUe2M
SOP, change a policy that wouldn’t have affected the case causing the change anyway. I am fully on board with stopping the traffic harassment, but this kid had a gun in his hand. The fuckup here was shooting him after he surrendered and complied. The kid hand his empty hands up in the air when the pig shot him. What incentive does this create for people fleeing while holding guns? Not the right one, that’s for sure. I know it happened fast, but that’s how it’s always gonna happen. The cop should have made an effort to understand who he was about to shoot, before shooting him. AND they should stop most of the traffic enforcement bullshit. AND, they should go back to enforcing the shoplifting and theft laws. AND, well there’s plenty more.
“Workers found a red rope “with a noose tied at the end” entangled in yellow electrical cables on the 5th floor of the planned fulfillment center,”
…. so someone had a legitimate reason to use a noose like knot (because most of the time they aren’t actual nooses?)
*looks out in backyard at the pair of bowline knots holding up swing*
*reports self for hate crime*
Good thing it wasn’t a two-half hitches knot, that is the knot of insurrection.
They had zipties on that job site….
ZIPTIES!!!!
I just found out stainless steel zipties are a thing.
Lord have mercy, we need to keep these complainers away from construction sites and dockyards.
Could have simply been part of the cable-puling process. When you have to pull multiple cables through a conduit you do that all at once. That requires a loop of some sort at the end you pull.
Or tying loops to make a temporary run of cable hang. There are a ton of reasons to tie loops or slipknots. This is a progjection by a bunch of idiots who have run away from anything resembling manual labor for their entire lives.
Or it’s some guys who saw an opportunity for an early extended weekend and self-reported it.
First one was probably an innocent mistake.
Every one after that was because construction guys were fucking with the complainers. No racism involved, just disgust at people who get vapors when they see a loop in rope.
Pffftt…looks like we got a mansplainer over here!
Yep…dont come into our facility cause each easy path has ‘nooses’ for future cable pulls.
2 years and 5 days ago I got layed off from my job.
1 day ago, ditto.
I am beginning to not like this week of the year.
I am still working until June 4, so thru two layoffs I haven’t been perp walked out the door yet. It does make my moving the next week easier, as we close on selling our house in SC on June 11.
The goal is to get the new remote work job before we arrive in CO in August.
sorry to hear that. Hope you get some severance package. And to be true to form, I will make the obligatory joke that in Civilized Europe people do not get fired.
Do you have good leads on remote work?
My first resume is going out to Coinbase in a few minutes.
I have some other leads already too.
My severance package is not as nice as my previous company, but it is in line with US standards. My previous employer went above and beyond the norm, both with cash and with insurance extension.
What do you regard as “us standards” Last time I was laid off my severence was the company not taking me off the payroll for a week.
What do you regard as “us standards” – as a non-American I assume they take you out back and shoot you.
They frown on that for layoffs. For cause firings? Sure.
I’ve heard severance packages as meager as “we’ll make sure the door won’t hit your ass on the way out” and all the way up to 6 months of full comp and Ben.
Sorry about the layoff robc, not good timing with the moving and all.. Hopefully coinbase works out. One of my former coworkers just ended up there.
Actually, I can’t think of better timing, as long as I can get a new gig early enough to still close on our house being built (December).
It isn’t perfect, but our house here is already sold, so that part is easy, we have new school arranged already and etc. So we aren’t scrambling, as long as I can find a remote position.
If someone makes me an offer I can’t refuse that involves a particular city, that would throw a monkey wrench into plans.
Bonus is that due to covid, I have 2 weeks of unused vacation that they have to pay me for also. I was saving it up for the move this winter. Now I may not have as much time available with new company, but, oh well, at least I get another chunk of cash.
Hah! Shows what you know – in capitalist U.S., fired worker shoots up place of former employment!
that’s why the employer should shoot em first
Greedo was going to layoff Han from Hutt, Inc.
🙁
Man, that sucks. Good luck in CO. And with so many places going to more WFH, I’m sure you’ll land in a good spot.
Sorry dude.
Good luck.
Goes for me as well, robc, but it looks like you have everything under control and well-managed.
If you are taking a northern route, stop in, stay a day and night or so
So sorry, Friend.
Sorry, brother. I’m glad they did right by you with the money/insurance though.
We’ll be there in mid-July. Once you get settled we’ll have to hang.
Uffda. Quick scan made me think you wrote we’ll have to bang and I got really upset.
Not that you finally came out of the closet, but we’ve been neighbors for how long and you never even looked at me that way. And now you are trying to set up a booty call before you’ve even left Minnesoda? How do you think that makes me feel?
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
Shit, dude. Been there.
Sorry and good luck.
I legit loled at this
https://twitter.com/Yeefi/status/1397396932927098881
Heh.
SCIENCE!
The rate of ice melt, the impact of a global pandemic, the capabilities of artificial intelligence, and the impact of fake news. These are all big challenges where science informs us and pioneers the tools we need to unlock the next steps in tackling them.
Yet in an age where science has never been more advanced, and where our capabilities to collect and analyse data are unsurpassed, we are still having to contend with some of the biggest threats we’ve ever faced.
——-
But science isn’t only needed when the challenge we face has a clear scientific dimension like a pandemic or climate change. Science has a contribution to make as we seek to tackle every kind of big challenge, whether that is global poverty, education, equality or securing justice.
As we face these challenges, global leaders need science. Scientists can bring data, insights and transformational discoveries, but they can also bring alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking to tackle the big issues of our time.
These issues rarely have simple, single-discipline solutions that can be identified in one-off events or meetings. They need collective, multidisciplinary, interactive, creative, strategic thinking that incorporates not only economics, politics, policy and business insights, but also science.
In short, science can’t just be brought in when a crisis emerges, we need an ongoing and dynamic conversation between scientists and the leadership teams that are tackling the big complex world challenges.
For real impact and change this needs to become the norm and it needs to be happening across the board, within government, and in business and industry.
I, for one, welcome our new eggheadocracy overlords.
We should turn the running of society over to elite technocrats. What could possibly go wrong?
Science is like Magic it can solve anything
Scientists can bring data, insights and transformational discoveries, but they can also bring alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking to tackle the big issues of our time. – just need to make critical studies mandatory for scientists first
but they can also bring alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking to tackle the big issues of our time.
Maybe they should present a coherent argument and then otherwise leave people alone.
‘they can also bring alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking”
Sounds like my ex and can change those frequently as well
‘
Somebody doesn’t actually know what science is.
Just use the Scientific method!
1: Report conclusions.
2: Falsify data.
3: Experiment with varying grant proposals.
4: Hypothesize dire consequences.
5: Research opposition.
6: Question the oppositions’ racist and misogynist motivations.
When my wife films me eating a donut…
https://nypost.com/video/donut-touch-this-sweet-toothed-opossums-snack/
“So this guy is lying in the very first paragraph. He’s also speaking waaaaay out of turn. And bail for political prisoners isn’t a thing anymore in this country.”
This is the new Russia Collusion hoax. It has so far allowed congress to help the three letter agencies spy on Americans that are political enemies of the mandarinate, and is intended for the mandarinate to be able to provide the veneer of legitimacy to their actions to punish or neutralize their political enemies. We should face it: we live in a banana republic, with the most inept and corrupt political/bureaucratic class in charge of things that you could imagine. God look out after us, cause this will get real ugly if these people keep us on this path.
Nailed it.
“The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away; six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near-daily fulminations of the former President,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the DC District Court wrote in an opinion to keep defendant Cleveland Meredith Jr. in jail because he could endanger the public if released.
The leftist judge doth project too much.
The drumbeat, right or wrong, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Are they just going to keep them in jail forever?
It’s like the constitution doesn’t even exist anymore.
Like the drumbeat about the ’16 election and Russian collusion?
He gets it….
ricky has the benefit of fuck you money and can afford to be a little edgy here and there
SCIENCE! pt 2
The average temperature on Earth is now consistently 1 degree Celsius hotter than it was in the late 1800s, and that temperature will keep rising toward the critical 1.5-degree Celsius benchmark over the next five years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.
Scientists warn that humans must keep the average annual global temperature from lingering at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most catastrophic and long-term effects of climate change. Those include massive flooding, severe drought and runaway ocean warming that fuels tropical storms and drives mass die-offs of marine species.
The new report from the WMO, an agency of the United Nations, finds that global temperatures are accelerating toward 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. The authors of the new report predict there is a 44% chance that the average annual temperature on Earth will temporarily hit 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming at some point in the next five years. That likelihood has doubled since last year.
“We’re seeing accelerating change in our climate,” says Randall Cerveny, a climate scientist at Arizona State University and a World Meteorological Organization rapporteur who was not involved in the report.
WE’RE CAREENING TOWARD SELF-IMMOLATION!
When I explain to AGW cultists that my problem isn’t that I am a climate denier – I have so much scientific evidence that this planet’s climate system fluctuates and changes, based on a complex and poorly understood hyperdynamic system, and has fluctuated from the moment the planet was a ball of cooling off hot material, that denying climate changes would be akin to denying that the sun comes out in the east because of the planet’s rotation – but that I feel their claims that climate changing is now suddenly the most dangerous thing ever, and we should let them institute marxist policies (which lack any sort of technical solutions), fall horribly short. I mean how can these people that demand others admit the planet’s climate changes now make the insane argument that it must be stopped. Note again, they really don’t propose any actions other than social programs that entrench those in power (and make them richer) while screwing over the plebes, either.
You would think these people would not be buying multi-million dollar beach property and blocking nuclear power generation if CO2 reduction was the scary thing they claim it is….
The unproven aspect is the assertion that humans can change the path of the whole system. It’s downright hubristic to assume that we killed the (not yet dead) ice age that started melting before we were engaging in any of these ungoodthinkful activities. They certaintly can’t show that we can stop any change.
I think it’s funny that anyone is even debating warming. It’s cooling we should be worried about. One good volcano or meteor and it’s back to the freezer we all go! You want to see a die off? THAT will be a die off!
Listen – God is dead and humans killed him so we can OBVIOUSLY do anything, and if we use SCIENCE we are even MORE powerful!!!
For funsies, you should bring up mitigation and adaptation to the change in the climate. That one really gets them going.
Their fallback position is then that you’re not an actual scientist, not qualified in that field, or that you’re that one qualified guy who denies actual science. It really is a cult of Top Men. These people believe what they want to believe and are not subject to rational suasion, and particularly not to rights-based argument.
It turns out that Tony and american socialist were not pathetic trolls on the ass end of the Internet, but rather prophets sent from the degenerate future.
Why not both?
You can’t reason a man out of something he didn’t reason himself into.
A good lie is short on details. The best lie is the one a man tells himself.
the critical 1.5-degree Celsius benchmark
What, pray tell, is the benchmark temperature for the planet? How do you discern this? How do you even contemplate discerning a single temperature for a body that has varying temperatures at varying elevations that are in constant flux and do so with ever changing monitoring locations? I guess I do not sufficiently ///FreakingLoveScience.
runaway ocean warming that fuels tropical storms
These are caused by the difference in temperature between the poles and equator. . . And the rest of your infantile, ill-informed screed is nonsense, especially since we have only been able to track such things for a geological time period that is not even the blink of an eye.
The average temperature on Earth is now consistently 1 degree Celsius hotter than it was in the late 1800s
Warming was bound to happen when the Little Ice Age ended.
that temperature will keep rising toward the critical 1.5-degree Celsius benchmark over the next five years
For the same reason that my nephew will be 32 feet tall in twenty years based on his previous rate of growth. Oh, wait…
She is nicer to him than they are when I prefer snacks over….
Look, Pandas are trying to go extinct.
They have the digestive tract of a meat eater and opt to gnaw on the nutrientpoor bamboo.
They have to be coaxed to procreate and are rarely interested.
At best they’re Eloi bears.
Let them die, they want it so.
Low T sucks…
We now have the perfect memes for the incels… The Panda boys.
Only problem is that the In = Involuntary…
But it is a good tag.
Will be branded as racist, even though not intended as such.
So Panda Boys are mostly white? (And mostly peaceful….)
Check your ursine privilege ;)!
If only it were that black and white of an issue with the incels
Does anyone believe that this revelation will dissuade the mandarinate from its quest to keep us on the path to a vision of a society where their kind remains on top, and the rest of us take it in the ass to make sure that’s how it stays?
This will be used by our betters as a justification for more and better propaganda.
“We just need to get the messaging right.”
That seems to be the excuse given every time by the PsyOps propagandist class….
Not that what they are peddling is evil shit, but the fucking rubes are being difficult, so we need to lie to them better…
So I’m reading Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public. In this edition there is an addendum and the recommendation was to read it first – which I just finished.
In it he talks about the whole issue of legitimacy of the elite. The current one has defaulted on legitimacy, but our society won’t function without one. So the big question is, how do we establish a new elite.
I nominate us. We declare ourselves the elite, then tell the hoi polloi that we’ll leave them alone if they’ll leave us alone. Everybody wins!
Stop laughing. ☹️
Yeah, that’s the problem, the hoi polloi don’t want to be responsible for themselves. They want/need to be led. But they also know when they’re being led poorly, as now.
We would be a terrible elite.
This (Glibs chaos) is the ideal government type. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Kill all the lawyers?
Lets see if this link works for yall. I searched Google for ‘trump stole election’ between Nov 1 2016 and Dec 31 2019, number 7 will surprise you!
It’s to early to raise my blood pressure. Let’s stick to Panda sex.
They had legit reasons to make that claim! So what that we all now know the legit reason was propaganda generated by the dnc and their candidate, all so the state could circumvent the law and spy on political enemies, then continue down that path to coup a president that had committed the crime of winning the election the establishment had rigged for their approved candidate, and that we have psyops propagandists masquerading as media and criminals running the bureaucratic machine? Don’t you fucking unwashed masses know that you should do what your betters tell you, you should? Who cares if the election was stolen? The fucking plebes should be glad the mandarinate did it to save their racket – erm, lets go with saving the people, cause admitting it was self serving is not gonna help – and just accept democracy means democrats win, already!
I now know that I’ll never buy another Ford product. I like the Police reform but only because I can no longer out-run fat cops. Andy Kim had a really solid career but that is not his best work. Thanks for the links and everything else that you do for the site, Sloopy.
Most (all?) of the major auto manufacturers are pushing for the E vehicle bullshit, not just Ford.
Until and unless they fix the inconveniences, the filthy hazardous waste mobiles will never take off.
I’m going back from hybrid to fully gas when I replace the C-Max.
They’ll try to subsidize full electrics into viability including the funding of infrastructure and the like. Time will tell if they’ll manage to pull the wool over people’s eyes or not.
The multi-hour charge time and the cold-sensitive batteries are deal breakers for a lot of people.
Also heat sensitive.
I can’t find it now, but someone did the calculation of the number of new power plants necessary to generate all the unicorn blood for these e-cars.
Let’s just say we’re a little behind schedule. Like 30 years.
Jason actually uses math. He’s got a good channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dfyG6FXsUU
It’s a good video, however, he glosses over or skips some very important points, including the costs of installing new generating capacity, new transmission lines (which in many places are near their limits already), new distribution lines, etc.
The biggest question, which he handwaves away by showing the increase in energy production from 1960 through 2000, is, where is that generation going to come from? From 1960 through 2000, the largest increase in generation was from installation of new fossil fueled baseload power plants, true behemoths that simply couldn’t be built before that time frame. For various technical reasons, until the 1960s, it was impossible to build single generators capable of more than about 450 MW. Up to that point, various cross compound and tandem generator schemes were used to increase unit capability. Up until then, steam boiler technology was limited as well, and so some plants had multiple boilers feeding single units, or single boilers feeding multiple units, or a combination thereof.
After that point, the standard of very large, 1:1 boiler / power train systems were able to be built, using supercritical steam that advances in metallurgy allowed, which increased the overall efficiency of the systems greatly. But these power plants required something that is unpalatable today: a fuel source to match, which was coal.
Tying our hands behind our backs by limiting coal fired plant construction is a problem. And let’s be honest; even though natural gas fired plants are more in vogue because of their lower CO2 emissions per unit energy production, the moves by the current administration to end fracking point to the future we all know is coming, which is that NG plants will become the next targets and their construction and use will be in question.
So, having removed our two biggest opportunities for generation expansion, how exactly do we get that additional capacity (which Jason calculates at over 1000 terawatt hours per year)? Nuclear? Not in the forseeable future, even in the time range he posits for EV adoption. Even if the Fed gov were to allow unfettered construction of new nukes, it still costs many billions of dollars to build one of those units, and the experiences of late haven’t looked good for nukes in the US.
SMRs are an option, but are nowhere near approval, as are many other options such as LFTR technology. And we know that without major energy storage installations, wind and solar will not cut it.
So, while it may be technically possible, we’ve removed many options for doing it quickly and cost effectively from the table, and that’s not even to consider the energy requirements to build an electric fleet or the additional charging infrastructure and inconveniences associated with charge times and ranges.
When Sharona dies I’m going full coal burner. Fuck them.
You can go full wood gas:
https://youtu.be/Cm46KAPLZpQ
The Germans used it pretty extensively during WWII.
I’m going back from hybrid to fully gas when I replace the C-Max.
I’m curious what your experience was. I’ve been nothing but happy with my car’s hybrid system. (Fusion, not C-Max)
I’ve had no actual issues, but I do know that the battery replacement costs will be more than the car is worth when they start to crap out.
The maintenance costs on the brakes have also been annoyingly high. It is either the regenerative system, trying to stop a 3500lb car, or some combination of these.
Plus, I don’t want to reward slave-labor mines whose efforts feed most of those Lithium batteries.
They don’t have much choice. The pollution mandates for internal combustion engines are getting increasingly difficult to meet. Selling electric cars completely relieves manufacturers of the burden and moves all the pressure over to the generation side.
Years with record-breaking heat offer a glimpse of the future. For example, 2020 was one of the hottest years on record. Last year, global temperatures were about 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than the late 1800s, according to the WMO.
Millions of people suffered immensely as a result. The U.S. experienced a record-breaking number of billion-dollar weather disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires. Widespread droughts, floods and heat waves killed people on every continent except Antarctica.
Recent climate disasters underscore the extent to which a couple degrees of warming can have enormous effects. For example, during the last ice age the Earth was only about 6 degrees Celsius colder than it is now, on average. An increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius “is a very, very, very, very big number,” Cerveny says. “We need to be concerned about it.”
How SCIENCE!-tistic.
I ask again- if you compare the population of Phoenix or Las Vegas with the population of Saskatoon or Siberia, is it easier to adapt to heat, or cold?
Millions of people suffered immensely as a result. The U.S. experienced a record-breaking number of billion-dollar weather disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires. Widespread droughts, floods and heat waves killed people on every continent except Antarctica. – not adjusted for population gdp inflation etc I assume. I saw no serious evidence of any trend in natural disasters.
. An increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius “is a very, very, very, very big number,” Cerveny says. “We need to be concerned about it.” – not outside inter-glacial natural variability
The current receeding glaciation isn’t over, we’re still in an ice age.
Of course it’s going to warm for a while – a warming the coming maunder minimum will disguise for a half century.
the coming maunder minimum – why do you believe a minimum is coming?
A Maunder Minimum is part of a cycle of solar activity. Though technically, you could call me out, because the coming solar minimum isn’t the one Maunder observed.
that does not answer the question why do you think a solar minimum is coming soon?
Because it’s already started and the cycles are well established.
the cycles are well established – not as far as they can be accurately predicted as far as I am aware. Even the next immediate cycle is not fully known whether it will be weaker or stronger than the past one
Are you talking about the shorter variations or the longer cycles?
around 11 years each
The exact amplitude is unpredictable, but that’s about it.
The pattern of short (11 year) cycles and grand cycles has been fairly consistant.
The pattern of short (11 year) cycles and grand cycles has been fairly consistant. – you should tell solar scientist that, they will be relieved to find out because they struggle to predict cycles and have no clear mechanism
Funny, they’re the ones I got my information from. I linked to wiki simply because it was easy to find.
Are you using a more precise degree of certainty to count as a prediction?
Prediction of solar cycle is an important goal of Solar Physics both because it serves as a touchstone for our understanding of the sun and also because of its societal value for a space faring civilization. The task is difficult and progress is slow. Schatten et al. (1978) suggested that the magnitude of the magnetic field in the polar regions of the sun near solar minimum could serve as a precursor for the evolution and amplitude of the following solar cycle. Since then, this idea has been the foundation of somewhat successful predictions of the size of the last four cycles, especially of the unexpectedly weak solar cycle 24 (“the weakest in 100 years”). Direct measurements of the polar magnetic fields are available since the 1970s and we have just passed the solar minimum prior to solar cycle 25, so a further test of the polar field precursor method is now possible. The predicted size of the new cycle 25 is 128±10 (on the new sunspot number version 2 scale), slightly larger than the previous cycle.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02370
I would expect something like this to be phrased differently if the cycles were known
I see, you are using a greater degree of precision in predictive value.
The pattern is known, and the deviation of the exact amplitude is what they’re looking to predict, because like all phenomena that are observed, the next event can veer off past patterns due to some unknown factor but tend not to.
To claim the degree of precision they’re looking to achieve with that is like the warmists climing they know we’re going to heat up another .5 C over X years – an impossiblity with the available information.
But to know that a minimum is coming from the past curve doesn’t require getting the number of spots within a certain degree of accuracy.
But to know that a minimum is coming from the past curve doesn’t require getting the number of spots within a certain degree of accuracy. – but do we have enough data to extrapolate? what is the longest sun cycle reconstruction? 1000 years?
Do you have a link where predictions of a coming minimum are relatively wide accepted?
I have seen many articles debating various solar cycles that and I am unsure I saw a clear prediction of a coming minimum…
Fair enough. If you don’t find it convincing, you don’t find it convincing.
Find what convincing besides a wiki link? There was a low solar cycle, but a mauder style minimum requires 10 of them and I have yet to see anything to point in that direction.
The wiki link was not the evidence.
And by your standard of evidence, we’ll have to reconvene in 2120. Lets revisit then, the data should be in.
In the late 1800s, there were still farms in Manhattan. The “record-breaking number of billion-dollar weather disasters” says more about population growth in the last 130 or so years than it does about climate change.
It’s yet another Original Sin style method of control, the perfect guilt trip: convince people they’re responsible for something that they really have no control over. Just like skin color, gender, sexual attraction…
HadCrut4 shows about a .8 Celsius increase. https://wattsupwiththat.com/global-climate/ That would be probably the preferred metric. Honestly, anything outside of the satellite measurements which about a .5 increase I’d be suspicious of.
It is COMPLETELY FALSE to say hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornados, whatever have increased in number or intensity. By all accounts they have either decreased or stayed the same.
The favorite method now to try and show COST of these disasters increasing. If you control for not only inflation, however, but for the rising VALUE OF INFRASTRUCTURE the cost becomes completely flat. It’s a simple exercise that shows what a charade this whole thing is.
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In the past 150 years, there has never been a single year where food production per capita hasn’t increased, global poverty hasn’t decreased, and natural disasters haven’t become LESS DEADLY.
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Also note: the United States hasn’t experienced any real noteworthy warming. If anything, my region of Northern Texas has gotten cooler and wetter over the past 50 years according to NOAA (but only slightly). Global warming tends to concentrate its warming at the poles.
Good morning, Sloopy!
I’m happy for the Wild but I still haven’t seen a game since early 2020. I’m afraid to watch now – I don’t want to jinx them.
I wonder whatever happened to this guy.
Well, he’s not dead. And he’s ready to rock.
Looks pretty good for 72.
.@lehmannchris
on how, from the Vietnam war to the present, aggrieved men cast themselves as a discriminated-against minority:
https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1397670231275880455
That one gives me Forest Whitaker eye. Our country shanghaied thousands of young men from all demographics (sans the wealthy, writes for the New Republic class) and tossed them into hell and this asshole has the temerity to suggest that they aren’t victims. They broke a lot of men’s bodies and minds over there and race had fuck all to do with it.
There are only a few things that would make me give my undying support to a politician.
One of them would be to announce that no U.S. entertainment or technology company can recoup any income from the People’s Republic of China.
Another would be to announce that we’re going to war, and there is a draft, but it includes only and exactly people who have at any time considered themselves journalists.
^ Newsletter. Subscribed.
“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”
– Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (as frequently quoted by Michael Malice)
After a few iterations of seeing my principles used against me only and exactly when most convenient to the ruling class, I have run out of fucks to give for naive arguments about principles. Freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of commerce, and even the right to live depend upon mutual respect. Popper was right about not tolerating intolerance, but any idea, even and perhaps especially that one, can be weaponized if people accept it gullibly and sheepishly from a position of weakness. Animal Farm might be an allegory about Stalinist Russia, but the most basic lessons one can learn from it are not limited to that time and place or the specific people alluded to.
Well said.
That’s a case study in how to look at an actual problem and derive the exactly wrong conclusions from it in order to service your popular credentials.
It wouldn’t bother me a bit to see the author and the critic get their asses beat by a biker gang.
Can’t I just be a bitter, old man on my own?
Northern Independence Party Yellow squareRed square
@FreeNorthNow
Yellow squareRed square Year 11 of an Independent North.
High-speed train with bullet noseDash symbol Pictured: High-speed Northumbria arriving at Manchester Piccadilly
https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1397845717239148545
like much scifiy stuff that does not look to me like a place I’d like to live in
Now I know why there are Glib cyclists. Cycling be racist yo.
Casually Explained: Cycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE8m8mmq1k
OMG, that was great. Going to share that with my MTB students. You notice that MTB riders are so non-haram as to not even be mentioned.
Well… I’ve got the beard, but no shaved arms or legs.
I also don’t run red lights, and will carry a lock.
Guess I’m a commuter.
Nephilium hardest hit.
Please don’t say “hit” about a street cyclist. ?
I actually just got called this morning regarding the “accident” I saw on Sunday. It was the mother of the driver asking for details, as she was getting ready to go to the police station, and asked if she could call me or provide my number if they needed more information.
Long story short, elderly woman ran into a turning van in an electric wheelchair and is trying to milk sympathy (after she turned down a call to the police, ambulance, a ride to the hospital, or a ride home from the driver of the van).
“Free Monies” is a hell of a drug…
And the cops called asking if I could come down today to give a statement… joy.
Well… I do wear a skullcap when riding. And brightly colored spandex.
Hugo Boss outfits, cycling kit is not.
What a crock of shit. Cycling is replete with woke assholes.
What they’re really saying is that it’s a sport where whites still dominate so it must be racist by definition.
Other racist sports: curling, downhill skiing, shuffleboard….
Basketball backs slowly out of the room.
Incorrect! Making those blacks for jump for my entertainment is clearly racist.
Bad joke of the day
https://twitter.com/MrBen___/status/1397626958599622659
Also
https://twitter.com/markversteden/status/1397651379410423819
I can’t read Dutch.
no one can they all pretend
Ik doe dat. Mijn moeder was een Nederlander.
I have a feeling that is a microagression
It is.
Fun fact if you can speak Old English (pre-Norman invasion) you can buy a cow or conduct other 11th-century business transactions with Dutch people in Frisia.
Defrocked?
Growing suspicion in the U.S. of a lab leak has dented the reputation of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Fauci has changed his public statements about the pandemic’s origins as well as funding he authorized for research at the WIV.
“Fauci should go,” Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, one of Fauci’s fiercest critics, told the Christian Broadcasting Network. Paul accused Fauci of “obfuscating the truth” about the virus’ origins and of downplaying his own role in funding the WIV’s research.
The lab conducted gain-of-function experiments to understand how animals can transmit new viruses to humans. Fauci said that such research is necessary to prevent future pandemics. However, Fauci has vehemently denied that the WIV used NIAID money to fund such experiments.
How’s that prevention thing coming along?
*nods from behind small piece of plexiglass*
They’ll wait until he dies and then disinter his corpse, put the mouldering remains on trial, find him guilty and toss him in the Potomac if it will advance their agenda. Heck, they might not even wait for him to die.
“We had absolutely nothing to do with this, but also it’s really important that we have something to do with this”
And a whole bunch of people still have confidence in the government bureaucracy and its political animals….
Stopped believing in God, so they gotta believe in something.
“Teen plans to sue LI school district for refusing to publish her George Floyd poem”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/teen-to-sue-school-district-for-refusing-to-publish-george-floyd-poem/
“Her lawyer father, John Ray, who filed the court papers, argued the school’s refusal to publish his daughter’s poem “is just racist — that’s the only thing driving it.”
So…disbarment?
at a minimum.
Whatever. Publish it and discuss it.
The only objectionable lines are:
““To stand tall, to control your circumstance.
“ ‘Black man, it’s you we’ll crack,’ white men proclaimed;”
Holy white girl guilt batman! That girl is so fucked.
When I was in advanced Art classes at the cusp of the 80’s everything was images about nuclear destruction. This is much more terrifying. We had kids using the same framework like a bunch of sheep. These aren’t sheep, they are lemmings.
Hey F, sorry to read slightly belatedly about your aborted nerves and cooking career. Tell us about latter?
Not this morning, Hon. I need sleep. Another day, perhaps.
Okay, be like that. Must be a good story.
Much brave. So stunning.
“I thought this was a free country and you have the right to express yourself in any way you choose.’’
She did express herself. Did I miss the part where she was shipped off to the gulag for writing a poem?
“I thought this was a free country and you have the right to express yourself in any way you choose,’’
You do but you can’t force someone to publish it.
A fate deserved, ‘cuz you passed a bad check.
He killed himself with fentanyl and would (maybe…) be alive today if he submitted to the arrest, which would have allowed the cops to take him to a hospital for treatment. I am so tired of this false narrative.
This is the best “get out of work” scam I’ve seen in some time.
They were mostly just hanging around anyway.
“We were knot!”
Hey Sloop. Greg Kihn became a radio dj in Monterey (I think) CA.
Well, I’ve given up, Don Pardo /
Just tell me now what I didn’t win ?
He’s also a novelist who was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
Sanctimonious douchebag speaks
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that while he was “wildly enthusiastic” about the resurgence of activism during his presidency, he often felt limited by “institutional constraints” that kept him from commenting on federal investigations into certain killings, including of the Black teenagers Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
Obama said that unlike former President Donald Trump, he followed the notion that the Justice Department was independent.
“I did not in any way want to endanger their capacity to go in, investigate and potentially charge perpetrators, which meant that I could not come down or appear to come down decisively in terms of guilt or innocence,” Obama said in a virtual gathering with the My Brother’s Keeper Leadership Forum, where he discussed a year of activism following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.
Fastidiously taciturn, he was.
If you have an obsequious yes man like Holder you don’t have to make pronouncements as they know just what to do.
he often felt limited by “institutional constraints” that kept him from commenting on federal investigations into certain killings, including of the Black teenagers Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown
Wut?
Michael Brown? Is this the same Micheal Brown that your Justice Department did a full investigation of and determined that Saint Brown was shot because he attacked the cop? That guy?
Listen, I share the same concerns that many of have here but at the point where you decide to attack someone, you are taking a risk that the person you are accosting, whatever your reason or justification, is going to respond with deadly force, badge or no badge. The same goes for Saint Skittles.
He wanted to be an even more narcissistic self-centered asshole about it, but the press could only carry so much water at one time.
He wouldn’t lie to you. He was the most ethical ever until now.
That one should go into the Liars Hall Of Fame.
Holder was a hitman for Obama and that SOB weaponized the DOJ against the next sitting president.
Obama said that unlike former President Donald Trump, he followed the notion that the Justice Department was independent.
+1 wingman ///EricHolder
Ya think?
Ahead of the full interview’s publication—which takes advantage of the upcoming 10th-anniversary Blu-ray of Abrams’ Super 8—Collider released an excerpt on Wednesday focusing on his directing and co-writing work on both Episodes VII and IX. The takeaway seems loud and clear: the new trilogy as a whole, which he bookended, would have benefited from more consistency.
Abrams’ quotes in isolation may sound like he’s speaking about the entirety of his career, but they’re specifically in response to Collider’s questions about the director and writer hand-off between entries in the “Rey trilogy.” His first answer includes a bigger-picture estimation about best-laid plans, hinting to issues with a single actor or when “a relationship as written doesn’t quite work.”
Overrated hack
Can we really fault the blue collar construction workers for not knowing how to tie a Windsor knot? I’m sick of this elitism.
Joe Manchin Should Oppose Biden’s ATF Nominee, But Will He?
Based on West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s own past comments, there’s no way that the Democrat should vote to confirm David Chipman as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, but Manchin himself has been coy about whether he’ll give Chipman the nod when the full Senate votes to confirm Biden’s nominee as permanent director of the ATF.
Back in 2012, Manchin expressed some support for imposing new restrictions on modern sporting rifles, but since then has shied away from embracing a ban. In 2018 the senator told MSNBC that he wouldn’t take anyone’s gun away, and in 2019 he was even more explicit when Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke declared that if he was elected president, he’d pass a mandatory confiscation of firearms. …
There are an awful lot of West Virginians who wouldn’t register their legally-owned guns with the government, and Manchin has to know that. Does he really think that those constituents of his should all be sent to prison for the “crime” of possessing the most popular rifle in the United States?
Chipman has tried to explain away his views by telling senators that while he personally believes AR-15s should be banned, if he’s confirmed as ATF director he’ll follow the current law. The problem with that defense is that the ATF has the power to set the rules and regulations for the firearms industry to follow, and the Biden administration is already demonstrating its desire to go around Congress and impose a new gun ban through administrative action instead of a vote in Congress.
When Manchin’s being coy that means he’s throwing out feelers for legal buyoffs and pork in exchange for a vote. Nicht gut.
I really hope the Wild do win. Vegas fans are so obnoxiously daft to the game. They are mostly new fans and cause they were gifted a team at startup, think they are owed a Stanley Cup.
I hope they end up like the Sharks, great in the season but always come up short in the playoffs.
Not me. I hope the WIld lose. I get sick of having to listen to friends ramble on and on about them. It is like golf. A boring topic I could care less about, but I am expected to sit there while they dissect the latest game.
The fans here can give you stats, name players, give odds; however if you ask things like what is offsides, what is a trap, etc they are just idiots.
That is even after the Knights organization did a huge outreach to teach the game of hockey.
Plus, while I don’t care for playing national anthems, they do this disrespectful thing on the line “through the night” where the singer stops and the fans scream “Knights!”
It just gets to me for some reason.
Honestly this is nonsense.
We had the exact some bullcrap leveled against our fans when the Stars moved from Minnesota.
Hockey is one of the simplest most elegant sports to follow. It requires no special training to be a fan.
I want it to grow here in Vegas, I just dont like the fans is all and I despise how the NHL brought the Knights into the league. Same will be for the Seachickens on Ice up in Seattle.
And yes it is elegant and easy to follow but after three years the fans are still just as dumb to the game as they were when it was announced we were getting a team.
I’ve been following for probably a couple decades years now and it’s my favorite sport, and I’ll admit that I may have been like that when the Stars first came.
What we were accused of was pretty over the top, though.
The Stars were successful pretty early on too (but not THAT successful since) so we got a lot of that.
I agree though it’s annoying how successful Vegas is with their hockey moneyball nonsense. I can understand not liking them.
Yeah I think that is where all my distaste comes from.
Now teams are stuck again deciding who to protect again. Teams rebuilding around a core will see that shattered when Seattle reaps players from teams for free.
I really thought we were at a good number so I’m a little nonplussed about this.
I am not a straight up denier of progress though. I actually the product is extremely good right now on the ice w/ a lot of skill out there.
Agreed. It was the game I wanted when I played very competitively but at my stature in the 90s, there was no chance.
18 year old me in todays game would have at least had a shot at the show.
What a refreshing thing for Ilhan Omar to say.
Maybe she is “growing” in office? Wait….
Oh, there it is
Never change Ilhan.
Actually, do change. Change from a representative to someone deported for your immigration fraud.
Chance would be a fine thing.
You’ve pinned down why I hate her more than AOC.
“From the River to the Sea”.
So she is saying that it is all about the Benjamins.
Enlighten me, why are you such a cunte?
Enlighten me, why do civilians need AR 15s?
“…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
They don’t. There is absolutely NO justifiable reason as to why a citizen needs a weapon of war. None.
So no muskets, then? Swords? Bow/arrow? Javelins? Sharpened sticks? Rocks? All have been used in war.
No one will ever change her mind and she asked it so she can smugly respond and not actually hear any reason.
Exactly, there was a total absence of good faith in posing the question. Next time try to not be so obvious.
The founders and the court disagrees.
In fact, even the abominable ruling US v Miller says that weapons of war are explicitly protected because the militia (aka the whole of the people) needs to be armed to the current standard. Miller was charged over a sawed off shotgun (and died before he could argue that such had been used in the trenches anyway).
Need doesn’t have anything to do with it.
It is not for the government to decide what I need and what I don’t. It is for the government to stay out of my business unless I violate the rights of others.
There are few things in life that are needs, including government.
ah, damn button, I’ll break tradition and edit
Government, like many things, can make life better or worse, but isn’t necessary for survival.
Because people like him, whoever he is, exist.
Even if guns were the reason for our crime rates (they’re not), I’d still take keeping them over being ruled by people like him.
It’s the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs, you statist fuckstain.
PS: Ask any of these gun control people what makes an AR-15 more dangerous from other guns. You’re going to get goofy shit like “the rate of fire” or “the magazine that holds hundreds of rounds”. Not one of them seems to know that an AR-15 fires one shot for one trigger pull and basically does the same thing as rifles that have been in common use for over a century.
The only reason I even own an AR is because of these assholes. I don’t even particularly like the platform, and don’t shoot mine all that much. But here I have resources tied up in two of the damn things (Mrs. A has one too) when I still don’t have a 20-gauge Belgian Auto-5 yet, because finger-wagging cuntes keep telling me I shouldn’t be allowed to own one. Well, you know what? Fuck that, I’m owning one.
I’d trade all of my days after tomorrow for an M-14 today.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
See? It can work both ways.
“Enlighten me, why do civilians need AR 15s?”
Ackshually, I need a select fire M-4. But I will settle for an AR-15 because they are cheaper and will do the same job 99% of the time.
THANKYOUVERYMUCH!
Heh.
@GovRonDeSantis to media mocking Florida for opening schools:
“The crazy people are the ones that are vaccinated still wearing six masks in New York City.”
I’m not feeling great but I hope that the rest of you incorrigibles are. Good day to you all!
Please feel better! [Disclaimer: Not your supervisor.]
I get moody from time to time. Nothing for any of you to worry about. That black dog never stops chasing. I’m fine, thanks for your concern!
Wir verstehen somewhat, I suspect.
My favorite black dog since the real one we had when I was a kid: https://brandeberrywinery.com/ohio-sales/ols/products/black-dog
Yeah — apparently that just means your long lost guardian is about to show up and buy you a Firebolt soon.
Yer a wizard, Festus!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9623523/Demi-Rose-goes-topless-signs-Fans.html
“Facebook’s censorship of Wuhan lab story shows ‘its true ugly colours’: Tech giant is condemned for ‘ingratiating itself to China’ and smothering free speech with ban – that’s only been dropped after Biden opened probe”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9624839/Facebook-shows-true-ugly-colours-Wuhan-censorship.html
“‘Fake news’ no longer: Facebook lifts ban on suggesting COVID-19 was man-made after Biden orders intel agencies to probe whether coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9623419/Facebook-lifts-ban-user-comments-COVID-19-man-made.html
I didn’t even know they banned it in the first place, or maybe I just forgot, but wtf?
They shadowbanned posts on it or peppered them with “fact-checks”
It would please me to no end to find out that Gates was funding the research as well and he is forever associated with it.
For some reason, the tech bros think that cuddling up to the legacy media is a good idea. This is despite the fact that the press views them as an enemy as evidenced by the unending stream of ‘social media path to radicalism’ hit pieces that are clearly designed to scare suburban Karens.
I am still trying to figure out, why the pivot? No idea leaves the ghetto of wrongthink without a reason.
That’s the $64M question. They’ve obviously known this for months, if not for over a year or since it began.
The intelligence agencies have an agenda here, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the public’s right to know.
To my point:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/spies-journalists-and-info-ops-against-america/
Purpose was served over the last year.
It’s more than that. The agencies view information like this as an asset with value. They don’t give up their capital assets unless there’s a return for them in terms of swaying opinion or eliminating opponents.
That’s enough to explain it being ignored instead of suppressed, but this seems to go beyond that, to the level of endorsed.
The lab leak theory was already painted as a right-wing conspiracy theory. It would be trivial for them to keep that narrative going. Maybe someone got wind of some strong proof that would be too hard to deny?
I’m skeptical of that one given TMITE’s ability to bury damning election fraud evidence.
It’s a religion. A statement can be false and dangerous one week, and perfectly acceptable the next as long as one of the high priests gives the blessing. It’s the same situation with Dr. Fauci flipping and flopping on what “the science” is on COVID.
The American public is completely deranged at this point.
The intelligence agencies must be marveling at their windfall as it becomes easier and easier to manipulate the useful idiots.
A federal judge on Wednesday wrote that Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him could still inspire some of the former President’s supporters to take up arms, as they did in January during the deadly US Capitol insurrection.
“Take up arms”? WTF? The only people that fired guns during the Jan. 6th festivities were the cops.
It “could” happen, therefore we must take your rights away.
Only way to defeat a lie to these people is to give a bigger lie.
Ford expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it’s spending to develop them.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
On my drive back from Pennsylvania on Sunday, I passed an abomination. The electric vehicle Ford called the “Mustang Mach-E”. Fuck it is ugly. And it isn’t a Mustang.
I don’t even think V6 Mustangs should be badged as such.
On the rare occasion when it’s part of a conversation, I casually work in the phrase “three-quarters of an engine” if somebody mentions a V6.
Stolen.
You could have had a V8.
*Golf Clap*
I have no problem with badging six and four cylinder Mustangs as Mustangs as long as they are gasoline powered.
And to add on to my comment, I say this despite thinking any engine other than a V8 is a Communist conspiracy.
OK, V10 and V12 are OK.
OK… some in-line sixes are nice.
OK, maybe there are other engines that aren’t Communist conspiracies.
But a Wankel…. that’s right out!
Those aren’t engines. They’re black magic.
Rotary engines? Boxers?
I think rotary engines aren’t Communist conspiracies.
I’m not sure about Boxer engines. Maybe they aren’t.
Maybe what I should do is stop digging.
Lookee the model-denier!
Agreed.
Mustangs were made with a 6cyinder since the beginning. It was and still is a economical way to get a fun sporty car that looks more sporty than it is. Most people besides gear heads care more about looks than actual performance.
I’m a gear head so it has to have lots of go, but that go can be a turbo 4 or high output V6, or especially a 32V V8.
I had a ’66 Mustang, 6 cyl, loved it , about 24-25 mpg, conv. Glad to see it go, got a ’69 El Camino, glad to see that go, too.
Granite Grok’s mid-week meme storm.
Hey, everyone!
My step granddaughter was born last night to my husband’s youngest son’s girlfriend (they live together but have not tied the knot; “girlfriend” is too casual a word but she’s not his fiancé so..,).
Healthy baby, mom doing well too. Parents besotted.
Another American brought into this world. She will be raised as a social justice warrior, but I will hope she rebels against her parents someday by becoming a rational person.
Congrats!
You will surreptitiously tutor her in the ways of righteousness.
And congrats on tuxedo kitten as well.
I second both of Toxteth’s comments.
Mazel tov! ? For baby AND kitteh! (Is b&w kitteh a done deal?)
Not yet; we pick him up this morning.
I think I’ll telework today so I can help settle him in.
Pics, pls! ? Of both newbies, if possible!
Babymomma?
“old lady”
Bastard Maker . . .That’s what I call my fiance
Always a celebration!
How does it make you feel about Mr Splosives now that you realize he is a perverted granny fucker?
Seriously, congrats!
Thanks, man!
I refuse to acknowledge the term granny has anything to do with me. I am merely a step grandmother…
GILF
Hey now!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats!!
Sounds like some well-deserved positive events are finding you. I am glad to hear it.
Maybe the real world will one day wake up your step-son to reality. Hopefully it won’t be too traumatic.
Maybe they should name her Alex P. Keaton.
Congrats!!!
“I will hope she rebels against her parents”
That goes with out saying.
My grand daughters call their step grandma, “Grandma”.
Funny story, when the oldest GD was about 10-12 the teacher asked the kids where their ancestors had come from. She said, “Latvia and Viet Nam” .The teacher was surprised that the stocky red haired girl could be partly Asian. She laughs at her own story now.
they live together but have not tied the knot; “girlfriend” is too casual a word but she’s not his fiancé so . . .
Babymama it is, then.
Think like a virus
Kill every human on the planet.
This is the first assignment I give students in my public health classes, filled with do-gooders passionate about saving the world. Their homework is to play a game called Plague, in which they pretend to be pathogens bent on infecting everyone on the globe before humans can develop a cure or a vaccine.
Why this assignment? Because as a professor of infectious disease epidemiology, I aim to teach students to think like pathogens so they can learn how to control them.
With COVID-19, thinking like a pathogen leads to an inevitable conclusion: Getting the vaccine out to everyone in the world as quickly as possible is not just an ethical imperative, but also a selfish one.
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Susceptible hosts? That was easy for SARS-CoV-2 when it first came on the scene. Because it was a novel pathogen, the entire global population was susceptible. No humans had full immunity to this particular virus from previous exposure, because it didn’t exist in human populations before 2019. Now, with each person who gets exposed or vaccinated, the number of susceptible hosts dwindles.
According to my model, humanity is dooooooomed.
Garbage in, garbage out.
I educate my students by having them play a stupid game with no basis in reality so that they simultaneously become paranoid and develop a savior complex.
Good summary, ticks all boxes.
The phrase “think like a virus” should be enough to disqualify him from teaching.
The bar is pretty low these days.
Has this been confirmed?
No humans had full immunity
Or is his use of “full” his catchall to get out of such a statement?
They say things like this while also pushing the concept of symptomless transmission. I believe there is a term for that.
This is the highlight. “Get jabs in arms.”
Everything else is irrelevant to his (her?) argument.
And of course it is unattainable goal and therefore DOOMPANICTERROR.
It looks like about 80% of the population won’t get it due to living a life full of colds.
…professor of infectious disease epidemiology, I aim to teach students to think like pathogens
As a professor, you should probably know that there is some question as to whether a virus is a life form, strictly speaking, let alone capable of ‘thinking’ and clearly you don’t have an understanding of evolution if you think that a virus makes as a decision as to what traits it will have. JHC
“Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington”
She’s a glorified safety tech.
“Kill every human on the planet.”
Not really a successful evolutionary trait. Killing off all of one’s sustenance is suicide.
Kill every human on the planet.
Then the virus exists no more.
the entire global population was susceptible
Observably, patently false.
I don’t even think V6 Mustangs should be badged as such.
The “Mustang II” was a Pinto in drag.
SARS-CoV-2 is one smart virus
SARS-CoV-2 has had a lot of things playing in its favor, aside from having a global population naïve to it. Several other characteristics make it particularly successful.
First, while it does kill, it can also cause mild or asymptomatic infections in others. When pathogens kill most of their hosts, they are not so successful in spreading, because humans change their behavior in response to the perceived threat of the disease.
Anthropomorphize a fucking virus. If that’s not SCIENCE! what is?
Apparently, an overwhelmingly nonlethal virus is somehow worse and more terrifying than ebola. Get the Nobel committee on the hoirn.
I mean I’d agree with what they’re trying to say though… sort of. It’s particularly troublesome because it’s a combination of spreading really well asymptomatically or with minor symptoms in some while absolutely culling certain high risk groups.
Taiwan says China blocked deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 shots
You’ll note the amount of coverage on this compared Palestine in the news. I’d love to see BioNTech get a little heat over exactly what the problem is.
BioNTech is the research arm of Pfizer and why they didn’t get as much government funding here. Does this mean Taiwan doesn’t get one of the most effective vaccines?
BioNTech has a R&D partnership with Pfizer, bu they were and are separate companies afaik. They’re based in Germany and have been trying to suck the local EU tit for a while.
You’ll get our vaccine and you’ll like it!
We promise it works just as well or better. Trust me.
“We totally would not mess with a vaccine going to Taiwan! Triple pinky swear! 差不多”
my public health classes, filled with do-gooders passionate about saving the world.
Would it be wrong of me to want these people used as guinea pigs in bioweapons research?
Remember, this is for the greater good.
A ray of hope? (I won’t quibble about the journalo calling our 4th biggest city “small”).
A decent story about St. Cloud police trying a different way of reform. Mostly based on engagement with people and ending us vs them policing. It is also nice that the chief of police seems pragmatic enough to be judging how things are working out realistically.
Mostly based on engagement with people and ending us vs them policing.
*staggers toward fainting couch*
The problem I’m going to have with this is it still involves my inferiors treating me, a grown adult, like they’re my daddy, for living my life in ways that is none of their damn business. The ultimate goal of all this, in my mind, is for the police to be like firefighters: they sit in their damn little stations and always be ready, but they only come when they’re called. We don’t need these predators prowling the streets of the city.
Having said that, this philosophy is refreshing and miles above the status quo.
Came across this while looking for “engagement” stats. Pretty interesting. I’d like to see it normalized? somehow based on each demographic’s percent of population.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/05/battle-ground-man-caught-on-video-with-dad-repeating-our-house-while-inside-us-capitol-during-jan-6-incursion-feds-say.html
How dare he say “our house”! Wait, didn’t Nattering Nancy call it the people’s house? Arrest her!
*staggers towards fainting couch*
I can’t even.
GUILTY!
It occurs to me that our government is taking such a hard line towards these rabble because they know that antics that they have been up to are far worse than what we can imagine.
To risk the truth coming out is far too high a price to pay.
“He and his father are among more than 400 people arrested in the Capitol insurrection. ”
Keep squeezing MFers and you end up with a real Ceaușescu situation.
Ceausescu was one man; the real rulers of our system are not so obvious to identify.
They want to make an example of people who made a mockery of their theater, eventually people will make an example of them. Or, they die on their knees. We’ll see how this plays out.
https://americasvoice.news/justthenews/ohio-announces-1st-1-million-vaccine-lottery-winner/
I’m conflicted between good and evil impulses. The good impulse wants everything to be fine with the vaccines for everyone’s sake. The evil impulse wants long-term effects to show up so that the people string up their leaders in the town square.
Even if people start dropping dead in large numbers in this day and age intentions matter more than reality.
So as long as our leaders meant well it’s OK. It’s also nuts…
We appear to be culturally broken.
As a guy who got the shot I’d prefer not to drop dead. But if it was for a good cause…
Right there with ya.
They will find a way to spin it so the vaccine is not at fault.
“That blood clot triggered stroke has nothing to do with the clot inducing vaccine”
The leaders should’ve been strung up long ago.
Oh to be Godzilla for a day. The shit I would fuck up.
Don’t ever let them tell you that don’t have some Godzilla in you.
Just remember the Emperor is always safe.
After all these years, there’s still one place in Tokyo Godzilla won’t ever touch
As a person involved in the insurance industry I’ve found the “just around the corner” automation and AI usage to be hysterical. The new new thing has always been AI and expert systems.
Hence I’ve been getting out the popcorn on this one.
Lemonade: JK, JK, We Don’t Use Facial Recognition to Reject Your Insurance Claims
TW -Gizmodo
I can’t imagine that an AI has the ability to outright deny a claim. But should you not screen well my guess it that it goes to human being along with the reasons you didn’t score well. Needless to say such a process can easily be abused. Most carriers are reluctant to outsource claims handling outside the US. They don’t want be seen as having some foreigner denying claims. But in our brave new world and quest for an IPO having an AI deny your claims would seem to be A-OK.
The adverb “thankfully” seems entirely out of place here.
I was counting words before “race” entered the discussion. I didn’t have to wait long.
But yeah, what an unseemly initiative. Do better, Lemonade.
My company is trying to jump on the AI bandwagon too but our chatbot doesn’t take your picture.
It’s been the thing for a long while.
Personal lines and small commercial are low margin so anything that can be done to save on loss adjustment expense is always a focus as much as the loss expense itself.
Our biggest business is warranty. So, yup.