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Monday, May 16. 2022

Monday morning links

 He’s studied mental illness for 50 years. Here are all the things we’re doing wrong


 We have to be more willing to disrupt current animal habitats when building wind or hydroelectric power. That means, to put it bluntly, that we have to be more willing to kill animals.


 The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto. The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not


 As Parents Resisted Transgender Push, Teacher Suggested Sending in Child Services.


 Wisconsin Middle Schoolers Charged With Sexual Harassment For Failing To Use Preferred Pronouns


Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos Invested in Lab-Produced Breast Milk to Prevent Effects of ‘Climate Change’


 The College Kids Are Not OK


 Harvard Progressives Covering Up For Their Systemic Racist Friends


Pulitzer Prize-Winning Health Journalist Revealed the Real Purpose of Masks in 2018: Fear


 White House Admits It Lied About Vaccines


 BLACKROCK BACKS OFF


 KAMALA WORD SALAD: “We Will Work Together, and Continue to Work Together… and to Work Together as We Continue to Work… To Work Together… We Will Work on This Together”

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"Pulitzer Prize-Winning Health Journalist Revealed the Real Purpose of Masks in 2018: Fear".

Really now - the White House has already found a replacement for Jen, just stop. The COVID chapter has been enough of a public policy disaster and disgraceful misuse of authority without spreading more phony sensationalism.
#1 Aggie on 2022-05-16 08:37 (Reply)
There is a time for continuing to work together, and that time is every day.
#2 Texan99 on 2022-05-16 08:41 (Reply)
Unless, of course, we have not yet begun. In that case we will continue to prepare an ever-changing vision of what working together might entail. Any volunteers?
#2.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-05-16 09:14 (Reply)
I prefer Lucretia from the Powerline 3WHH's spin on that phrasing :)

A commenter at Althouse's post of this clip speculated that it doesn't indicate ill-preparedness but over-coaching and over-rehearsing. That seems reasonable as she could wind up running ahead of the Teleprompter display of her prepared remarks, and the repetition comes from a fear of dead air waiting for it to catch up.
#2.2 Christopher B on 2022-05-16 09:40 (Reply)
I've said this before but I'll say it again. As politicians go, Kamela Harris is off-the-charts on ambition, low-middling on intelligence, and DOA on charisma.
#2.2.1 Aggie on 2022-05-16 09:59 (Reply)
Criticizing Kamala? I guess we know who the racist misogynistic white supremacist is. You, sir, are literally worse than Hitler.
#2.2.1.1 Jerryskids on 2022-05-16 10:10 (Reply)
LOL. And you sir, have the rebuttal of the liberal, to all criticisms, honed to perfection.
#2.2.1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-05-16 10:27 (Reply)
It’s 2022, so I can’t really tell if the Tyler Cowen article is satire. Greenies are the same class of people that wish to protect every species of animal on the planet, and will go into protest convolutions, when it comes to harming Mother Earth to feed, or make life easier for humans. The same people yawn with boredom when a solar plant, requiring many more acres than a conventional power plant, displaces any number of critters. Yet get their panties in such a tight wad that it becomes difficult for them to walk, if even mentioning nuclear power - the one clean choice for our energy needs. The left is not really interested in meeting energy needs. The left is not really interested in solving any problem. The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds, so one could easily infer that Mr. Cowen’s piece is a serious roadmap for the future. But at the very end of the article, he gives the game away. Taxing house cats? Surely you jest, Mr. Cowen.
#3 B. Hammer on 2022-05-16 09:54 (Reply)
QUOTE:
I’m convinced that madness cannot be divorced from the cultural, social, and psychological matrix within which human beings exist. To deny that social and psychological factors play a major role in the genesis and course of mental illness is to blind ourselves to a mountain of evidence, epidemiological and otherwise, that teaches us that the environment powerfully matters.

- Andrew Scull (from the mental illness article)

I can’t help but think about the environment of the modern child - the public schools, the Disney movies, the culture that grooms the children. A recipe for a continuing disaster. Maybe less enabling, and more strict structure? More teaching of self control, less of instant gratification?
#4 B. Hammer on 2022-05-16 10:40 (Reply)
Re: BLACKROCK BACKS OFF

QUOTE:
BlackRock has warned it will vote against most shareholder green activism this year for being too extreme, in a significant u-turn by the world’s biggest money manager.


Why does BlackRock get a vote at all? They don’t actually own the shares of the companies in their funds. The people who bought shares in the funds own those shares.
#5 mudbug on 2022-05-16 10:53 (Reply)
In a logical sense, yes, however in practice, and I'm pretty sure legally. a person who invests a stock market fund of this sort owns only an undifferentiated portion of the value of the fund relative to their investment. In theory BlackRock could poll their investors for how to vote but I don't think they have to.
#5.1 Christopher B on 2022-05-16 11:57 (Reply)
BlackRock is merely the middle man. Except for any shares the company buys for its own investment purposes, those shares are owned by their customers since they would not have been bought were it not for their customers buying shares in their fund. They bought those shares on their customers' behalf and will sell them because the customer sold his shares in the fund. I realize it's more complicated than that because they manage some, or maybe all, of the funds, but it's no different than a financial advisor buying and selling shares for you. It is you who get to vote those shares, not the advisor. What do you do with fractional shares? How are the owners given the opportunity to vote? Would most of them vote? Those, and others, are interesting questions but they don't change the reality.

Since BlackRock is apparently considered the real owner and can vote shares in their funds, they have enormous power to direct the course of corporate policies. Essentially one man (or committee) controls the direction all the largest corporations.
#5.1.1 mudbug on 2022-05-16 12:26 (Reply)
Yes. Mutual funds traditionally vote the shares.

OTOH, mutual funds have a fiduciary duty to their customers. Normally, that requires prioritizing total return (other than explicitly ESG funds). That puts Blackrock on some shaky ground.
#5.1.2 OldCurmudgeon on 2022-05-16 15:40 (Reply)
re We have to be more willing to disrupt current animal habitats when building wind or hydroelectric power. That means, to put it bluntly, that we have to be more willing to kill animals.

That was such a bizarre read, I wonder if it was parody? Assuming he was serious, why is it okay to destroy habitat for wind/solar, but not for fossil fuels/logging/ water desalination?

California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought

QUOTE:
California regulators on Thursday rejected a $1.4 billion desalination plant on environmental grounds, dealing a setback to Governor Gavin Newsom, who had supported the project as a partial solution for the state's sustained drought.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
#6 feeblemind on 2022-05-16 12:52 (Reply)
I bet it would be feasible to find a way to pipe that brine (or haul salt) out to deeper water and dump it.

This is a soluble problem, yet TPTB won't let that happen.
#6.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-16 14:51 (Reply)
Just spitballing here, but maybe they should ask the Israelis how they do it. But then they might get Israel-cooties, and they don't want that in California.
#6.1.1 Hairless Joe on 2022-05-17 09:38 (Reply)
0r ask Saudi Arabia about desalination.
#6.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-05-17 13:45 (Reply)
So--what do you propose we do to get America's colleges to return to using academic standards as a goal for graduating?

What do you propose we do to get colleges to return to an agreed upon level of accomplishment before being admitted?

The irony of course is the quality of writing that has become the norm for articles, essays, etc. in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It reads today as if written by seniors in high school. There is your true signal of failure. Pick up a copy of the Chronicle and tell yourself these people are on the same level as those writing 30 years ago.
#7 faculty wife on 2022-05-16 13:28 (Reply)
Get rid of the student loan program. Pay as you go education for those motivated enough to take education seriously and will sacrifice to obtain it. The woke need not apply.
#7.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-05-16 14:11 (Reply)
QUOTE:
White House Admits It Lied About Vaccines . . . You spread COVID related misinformation and now must be banned. Isn’t that how it still works?

Uh, no. Correcting a misstatement is exactly what they should have done, and did.
#8 Zachriel on 2022-05-16 14:09 (Reply)
You defending Democrats who lie. Why am I not surprised?

(((Stereotype)))
#8.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-16 14:54 (Reply)
QUOTE:
KAMALA WORD SALAD: “We Will Work Together, and Continue to Work Together… and to Work Together as We Continue to Work… To Work Together… We Will Work on This Together”

The speech, while not exactly elegant, is quite intelligible. (Note the ellipses.)
https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1525217409682100224
#9 Zachriel on 2022-05-16 14:14 (Reply)
Not exactly elegant? The speech isn't even fractionally elegant. It is incoherent.
#9.1 jack walter on 2022-05-16 16:33 (Reply)
Quite coherent:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/13/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-in-a-meeting-on-climate-at-the-u-s-asean-special-summit/

The speech clearly calls for cooperation on climate and development issues.
#9.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-05-16 17:52 (Reply)
Why do you always reply with dishonesty?
#9.1.1.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-16 18:19 (Reply)
Play the uh... "quite coherent" video.
Bwaha!
#9.1.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-05-17 14:04 (Reply)
Is there a link to the LA Times mental illness essay that gets past the Paywall? I am very suspicious of what little I can see of it and read it in other places thus far, but don't want to jump to conclusions.
#10 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-05-16 14:21 (Reply)
I clicked on the link, and read the article.

Maybe try a different browser? Clear your cookies?
#10.1 B. Hammer on 2022-05-16 14:53 (Reply)
If you're on a Windows machine, hit F9 which is Print Preview, and you should be able to read the whole thing. It worked for me on this particular link anyway (it doesn't always).
#10.2 Aggie on 2022-05-16 16:17 (Reply)
Thanks, both of you
#10.2.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-05-16 17:04 (Reply)
Thank you B Hammer and Aggie. I read the article and the guy is a f-in' idiot. I will post on it at my own site, maybe tonight, but the short version is that because mental health deinstitutionalisation policy, combined with patient-choice legal structures - which are more recent than 1963 but mostly not overlapping medically-based treatments for SMI for the last 60 years - have not worked very well politically, that therefore the chemical treatments have not worked well.

This is terrible reasoning and ignores reality. He is a sociologist who is committed to the idea that there must be social solutions. He has not studied mental illness for fifty years, he has ivory-towered and observed the obvious that there are untreated mentally ill people out having terrible lives and impairing the lives of others. From this he concludes that the unused treatments that they won't accept and we can't make them take are the problem? Insane. I am furious.

Here's a tip for reading articles about mental health treatments in the future: anyone who spends more than a sentence talking about med side effects from 60 years ago and treatments we haven't used for a hundred years, and calls ECT's "electroshock therapy" should be immediately ignored. He hasn't treated anyone. He hasn't read a treatment study.

I am already composing this one. It is shameful that the LATimes gives him a forum as if he knows something.
#11 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-05-16 17:21 (Reply)
It's up now. It's not as good as I hoped. I have too much going on to edit well.
#11.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-05-17 21:59 (Reply)

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