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Thursday, June 27. 2019

Thursday morning links

French Locals to Counter Burkini Protest with Nude Swimming


 Truck driver accused of killing 7 bikers was immigrant who should have been deported


 Psychologists Can’t Figure Out Why Hardly Anyone Wants To Date A Trans Person


Living in deserts:  A Water-Stressed World Turns to Desalination


 Inside Google’s Microaggressions Newsletter: Pronoun Problems, Soy Police, And A Deaf Person Told To Watch Her ‘Tone’


Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 120 others at Statehouse blast vaccination


Idiots


The Wall Street Journal Embarrasses Itself On The Economics Of 100% Intermittent Renewable Energy


 Relatives Say Father And Daughter In That Heartbreaking Photo Were Not Fleeing From Violence In El Salvador


 Half of BP Workforce Reassigned to Humanitarian Support Duty, 100,000 Migrants Slip into U.S.


"... according to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation women actually earned slightly more bachelor’s degrees in “Science and Engineering” (3,111,529) between 2006 and 2016 than men (3,091,614)!",


 Thanks to Trump, the healthcare choice is yours


It’s our elites who are driving America’s divisions


 The Democratic Party Has a 'Perception Problem' as 'Coastal, Elitist'


 So Many Democrats, So Many Bad Ideas


Politico:  Dear Democrats, Here’s How to Guarantee Trump’s Reelection - You’ve got a historically unpopular opponent in the White House, but there are nearly a dozen ways you could still blow this.


The Existential Threat of a Democratic Texas - Suburban moms and Latinos could turn Texas blue


 Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests In New Mexico, Could Deploy On Ship In Northwest


 The Trump Doctrine

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As of now, the remaining disparity in women in STEM fields comes down to whether or not you include medicine, particularly (but not exclusively) nursing, as a STEM discipline. These fields are stacked so heavily in favor of women that they cancel out engineering.
#1 Another Guy named Dan on 2019-06-27 08:30 (Reply)
re The Existential Threat of a Democratic Texas - Suburban moms and Latinos could turn Texas blue

Don't know about the suburban moms, but sooner or later the Latinos will turn Texas blue. If they start voting in large numbers it will be sooner rather than later.

My crystal ball shows Texas turning blue in 20 years at most.
#2 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 10:14 (Reply)
Psychologists cannot figure out people. That is a sad commentary on the field of psychology. Also sad is that psychologists have no idea of what is a normal human being and what is deviant. Evolution and Science did not penetrate the cult of psychology.
#3 Blick on 2019-06-27 10:17 (Reply)
How long before you can get ostracized and/or fired for hatefully refusing to date a trans?
#3.1 Texan99 on 2019-06-27 12:02 (Reply)
A perception problem? Of being 'Coastal, Elitist'?

Well, they're certainly trying hard to not disabuse us of that notion, aren't they?
#4 JLawson on 2019-06-27 10:26 (Reply)
"... according to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation women actually earned slightly more bachelor’s degrees in “Science and Engineering” (3,111,529) between 2006 and 2016 than men (3,091,614)!",

Would love to see the break down for actual degrees.

Dollars to donuts says the women were pulling down a ton of degrees in "soft " sciences such as biology, horticulture and environmental science, rather than the far more math-oriented or chemistry-related engineering subjects, such as materials, chem. engineering or civil engineering!

Always been that way! Nothing new to see here, except more women (and fewer men) wasting money on college than ever before. Won't even mention the art history, sociology or English major wastage!
#5 Turret Gunner on 2019-06-27 10:28 (Reply)
WSJ 100%: in that energy conversation: we're driving across the country and you see various oil well pump jacks not moving. reading up on it, there are other wells that use other pump styles.
Are the ones not moving because the price is low enough, leave it in the ground for now, why give it away cheap? The pressure increased and the well flows without pumping? The well output declined that they can't run all the time? The well is dry but nobody removed the pump yet?
Inquiring minds want to know!
#6 Jerry on 2019-06-27 10:41 (Reply)
A friend of mine used to lease what are called "non-performing" wells in S.Texas defined as wells producing less than 10 or so barrels a month (not sure what the numbers were exactly) and had timers on each well to pump on certain days for a specified amount of time.
At one time he leased about 20 or so and was pumping around 100-200 barrels a month and claimed he could only make money if the price was >$80 per bbl.
Fracking put an end to that.
#6.1 Zachingoff on 2019-06-27 12:57 (Reply)
Re: bad ideas

I didn't watch the debate last night (I was washing my hair) but I understand that one of them (Castro?) said that abortions should be available trans women.

In how many ways is that the most stupid thing I've ever heard? In the first place, I don't think Roe v Wade stipulates that only women are allowed to have abortions. That was decided in a simpler, more sane time when nobody would think to worry about men being pregnant. I am also led to understand that a trans woman is a man who wishes he were a woman. That being the case, a trans woman isn't ever getting pregnant in the first place. No amount of surgery or wishful thinking or identifying will change that.

But if that is going to be a platform of the Democratic Party, I say go for it! In fact, why discriminate against men. I think he should propose the availability of abortions for men! Monty Python was prescient:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

(Thanks for the reminder about this a few days ago, BD)
#7 mudbug on 2019-06-27 11:15 (Reply)
And yet you have to appreciate his landing on a social scheme that will cost so little money.
#7.1 Texan99 on 2019-06-27 12:08 (Reply)
Yes, this policy shows amazing economy both fiscally and intellectually.
#7.1.1 mudbug on 2019-06-27 13:14 (Reply)
What makes you think it won't cost much? All it means is that, whatever funding he manages to scrape off the budget frosting, he won't be spending any of it on actual procedures. To a politician, this is as good as gold - promise something that can't be delivered then, once public traction is secured, score a huge discretionary budget to 'understand' how best not to deliver it.
#7.1.2 Aggie on 2019-06-27 23:42 (Reply)
Alabama Police Ruined a Couple's Lives Over $50 of Weed. Now the Charges Against Them Have Been Dropped

Another chapter in the saga of civil asset forfeiture. The license law enforcement agencies have to steal.

https://reason.com/2019/04/16/alabama-police-ruined-a-couples-lives-over-50-of-weed-now-the-charges-against-them-have-been-dropped/
#8 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 11:17 (Reply)
re Psychologists Can’t Figure Out Why Hardly Anyone Wants To Date A Trans Person

That doesn't reflect well on the psychology profession.
#9 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 12:11 (Reply)
Most psychologists are "self-medicating."
#9.1 Jim on 2019-06-27 14:25 (Reply)
re Living in deserts: A Water-Stressed World Turns to Desalination

The article is informative, but there are the usual sops to "climate change", the evils of 'fossil fuels', and overblown concerns about pollution, and they are all off putting.
#10 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 12:15 (Reply)
Kennedy is questioning the "scheduling" of vaccines; i.e. loading so many on children before their immune systems are fully functioning.
#11 jma on 2019-06-27 13:28 (Reply)
This site prevented me from posting my argument against mandatory vaccines. People are only "idiots" until its your toddler that undergoes sudden problems. I've seen several such cases and also experienced the arrogance of Big Pharma/Healthcare too often now to not allow for less Big Government.

For yer own good? Sez who?
#11.1 jma on 2019-06-27 13:48 (Reply)
Have you ever seen what smallpox, polio, whooping cough, diphtheria can do to people? If you had then I think your outlook on vaccines would be quite different.

If you don't vaccinate your child you are counting on responsible parents that have vaccinated theirs to keep your children safe. But if one of these infectious illnesses does appear, your child is vulnerable.

I don't like the idea of mandatory anything either. If you want to roll the dice with your kids' health that's your business.

In the end end it is all about risk assessment. Is the vaccine worse than the disease?

I can tell you there are far more dead and crippled children from the aforementioned diseases than will ever be adversely affected by the vaccines.
#11.1.1 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 14:48 (Reply)
re It’s our elites who are driving America’s divisions

This was a good read.
#12 feeblemind on 2019-06-27 13:32 (Reply)
Re: Today's Supreme Court Decision

The request to put a question on the 2020 Census has been turned back to the lower courts. In all of the articles I have read regarding the question asking "are you a citizen of the US" the explanation of the left as to why they don't want that question on the census is this: making people answer this question will force illegals and poor people not to answer the census at all. I do not hear why that is an acceptable excuse. What they are saying is that if you are an illegal you won't respond to the census questionnaire therefore your community won't get the federal money necessary for your schools and services. What is wrong with that argument?
#13 facultywife on 2019-06-27 14:58 (Reply)
You have to think about what it means, when a country cannot even inquire who its citizens are.
#13.1 Jim on 2019-06-27 19:41 (Reply)

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