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Thursday, February 1. 2024

Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish

California Becomes First State To Ban Heterosexual Marriage

GO SEE “AMERICAN FICTION”

' American Fiction’ is a Hilarious Plea to Hollywood to Stop Stereotyping Minorities

The Seeming Impossibility of Life

New state-mandated tampon dispenser in Conn. HS boys bathroom ripped down in just 20 minutes

UConn seeks engineering ‘inclusion’ professor

The American Federation of Teachers Comes Out for Hamas - Destroying the education of a generation wasn't enough for Randi Weingarten.

Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education.

What Do American Universities and Communist Political Systems Have in Common? More than you think.

Opportunity, Not Tragedy - The DEI ship at Harvard and other elite universities is probably too big to turn around

Jordan Peterson is doomed to be a victim of woke culture

Failing Upward at the State Department - Plus: Biden our time with Iran, the new proletariat, the great Kelce-Swift stupidification, and more.

Moving to Red America - Americans have disproportionately relocated to Republican-led states that imposed the fewest and least severe Covid-19 mandates.

Justice Sotomayor says her job is too hard

Tucker interviews Russel Brand

NY Times: Migrants Keep Coming Because They Know They Can Stay

‘Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb, who correctly called the 2008 financial crisis, says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt

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The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview

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A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v. Buttigieg, brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers, only to be dismissed by a pass-fail biographical questionnaire with a >90% fail rate, implemented without warning after many of them had already taken, and passed, a skill assessment. The questionnaire awarded points for factors like "lowest grade in high school is science," something explicitly admitted by the FAA in a motion to deny class certification.

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-a-quick-overview

#1 feeblemind on 2024-02-01 09:34 (Reply)

The diversity issue, Dei, which loosely translated means minorities only even where it makes the result ridiculous and the tampon dispenser in boys bathrooms are two sides of the same agenda. The intent of the tampon dispenser is to belittle and bully boys, to be a constant reminder that the rest of the world hates them. Ditto for DEI, to push it in your face, make sure you know you are shit and only "they" matter.

We used to watch some of the cooking shows and the home remodeling shows on TV. But lately they have fallen to DEI. NOT the 14% black or 2% gay that might in some way make sense. NOOO! but 100% black and gay and it isn't enough that they are black and gay but they must have green or purple hair and kiss their gay partner and make gay comments and insult the TV audience. I commented to my wife the other day that the show Beat Bobby Flay seems to only have really ugly people on it. It's true, fat ass lesbians, gay judges with outrageous hair and attitude and ugly faces. Sure, I would expect that in a fair competition some of the contestants wouldn't be attractive but we're talking going out of your way to look like shit; tattoos everywhere, green hair, bizarre clothes, clearly people struggling with mental health issues put there in front of you NOT for equity but rather to punish you because they hate you. I actually did enjoy a cooking show where the intent of the show was to prepare a meal with one or two really interesting dishes that you might want to try for yourself. But no longer. Now the meals are shit with weird ingredients, I mean intentionally weird ingredients and you are left wondering WTF. Who watches this shit. So you search the channels and most of the old genre of shows you used to watch are doing the same thing. The discovery channel is borders and customs 24/7 as though they are laughing at you because they have destroyed our borders and this is how they rub it in.

I used to like HGTV where you might learn how to remodel your kitchen or painting techniques. But now it is all drama and talk and how many DEI they can put in it even when it makes zero sense. It truly feels like the TV industry is trying to wean/force us all off TV. It is all replays until 9 PM when if you are lucky they will have a new show. TV is crap now. I admit I don't have netflix or any of the other pay for view channels. Don't even know how to get them and don't want to pay for them. TV is crap anymore.

#2 OneGuy on 2024-02-01 10:06 (Reply)

Why watch TV?

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2024-02-01 10:14 (Reply)

It's a soporific that is only mildly addictive. Oh, and Jeopardy!

#2.1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2024-02-01 15:31 (Reply)

Do you watch the Youtube videos that are posted on this site? I think those fall under the definition of television.

There's a lot on TV that's worth watching, either for entertainment or education.

#2.1.2 jack walter on 2024-02-02 09:41 (Reply)

Just noticed the new "Mr and Mrs Smith" series on amazon with the protagonists now black man and east Asian woman.

#2.2 sch on 2024-02-02 09:45 (Reply)

IN order to study engineering, you need a firm background in math and the physical sciences. You simply can't understand things like strength of materials (aka things that bend), AC circuits, heat flow and thermodynamics, transient and steady-state responses, and fluidics without calculus. If you don't get at least as far as trig and analytic geometry in high school, you're going to be at least a year behind the students that did.

Any attempt to bring more minorities into engineering and other STEM fields that does not attack the discrepancies in these study areas at the elementary and high-school level is at best useless and most likely counter-productive.

#3 Another guy named Dan on 2024-02-01 10:30 (Reply)

… and at worst a mortal risk!

#3.1 Louie Miller on 2024-02-01 10:58 (Reply)

Inclusion in engineering? I recall an an engineering professor who said to us, "I hope you're not stupid." The problem wasn't stupid students. The problem was that, although the professor had written the textbook we and many other universities used, he had forgotten that the important points of STEM lectures need to be written on the chalkboard.Blah blah blah but only five lines on the chalkboard for a 50 minute lecture don't make for a good learning experience for STEM.

#3.2 Gringo on 2024-02-01 11:20 (Reply)

The problem of bringing unqualified people into STEM is that they take up a slot in the class that someone more qualified could have gotten. Same in medical school. It seems they would rather lower standards than admit failure of their original standards. Then we have to live with the results of mediocrity.

#3.3 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-01 13:33 (Reply)

The Connecticut school principal is disgusted and says, “I am aware that the law says “men’s bathroom” but the actions today that led to vandalism and destruction of property were the work of immature boys, not men.” Really? What kind of work is it that puts tampons in the men’s bathroom? What kind of work is it to mollycoddle and incentivize the mentally disturbed?

The Brookfield High School principal says there has been other acts of vandalism, but ripping the tampon dispenser from the wall was the “most egregious.” Principal Balanda goes on to say that there should be open dialogue, that you should talk about things, work our differences out, so that everyone can be respected.

Principal Baland is a liar. If someone complains about the insane notion that a boy, having woke up one morning declaring himself a girl, that he can now and is menstrual, and was to use biological facts to backup his claim, that indeed, this notion is nonsense, that person would be hauled before the re-education committee. He would get the Jordon Peterson treatment.

Men, and I use that term with disgust, like Principal Balanda, do not want dialogue, they demand conformity. If these creatures of the Left, can get you to believe that boys can become girls, and vice versa, then what lie won’t you swallow?

“It may be the Lord’s way of showin how little store he sets by the learned.” - Cormac McCarthy

#4 B. Hammer on 2024-02-01 10:34 (Reply)

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Jordan Peterson is doomed to be a victim of woke culture . . . beliefs include his opposition to the “climate change” hysteria and forced use of gender pronouns and gender change, among other “woke” subjects.

Peterson is being required to take continuing education because of his unprofessional statements, such as comparing surgery on a consenting adult to Mengele, trivializing the Holocaust; and insulting a plus-size individual.

#5 Zachriel on 2024-02-01 10:56 (Reply)

There is nothing unprofessional about a counselor insulting a fat person for being fat, or arguing against disfiguring the mentally ill at their request.

#5.1 jack walter on 2024-02-01 12:44 (Reply)

jack walter: There is nothing unprofessional about a counselor insulting a fat person for being fat, or arguing against disfiguring the mentally ill at their request.

The original post about the objection to his statements was misleading. At the very least, comparing surgery on a consenting adult to Mengele minimizes the Holocaust. One can argue the point without comparing another doctor to a Nazi murderer.

Peterson has the right to express his opinion. The professional organization has the right not to be associated with him for what they consider unprofessional conduct. Peterson has the right to rail against their standards. He even has the right to file suit, which he did and lost. But the original post about the objection to his statements was misleading.

#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-02-01 13:10 (Reply)

As always, Zachriel leaps in to defend perverts and totalitarian regimes.

#5.2 TiredOfThis on 2024-02-01 13:33 (Reply)

Peterson is being required to take continuing propaganda and brainwashing sessions until he quits resisting. Just like the North Vietnamese re-education camps. That is all that occurs in the University setting anymore. End the student loan program.

#5.3 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-01 13:38 (Reply)

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The Seeming Impossibility of Life: Sure, with enough planets around enough stars within enough galaxies, life is probably bound to happen one way or another, but it appears that life only happened here, once, billions of years ago, when it didn’t appear – or was snuffed out – even in our own solar backyard.

That's not quite correct. While the only known appearance of life is on Earth, it may have arisen multiple times in primordial times. Many such instances may have gone extinct, but there is evidence of vestiges of multiple origins in extant biology.

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That stark reality does not rule out divinity or exotic physics, but it also does not demand them. If you wish to believe in either of those, I will not begrudge you.

Sure, but that doesn't constitute a viable scientific hypothesis.

#6 Zachriel on 2024-02-01 11:00 (Reply)

"a viable scientific hypothesis" is a joke if you look around at the current condition of 'science'.

#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-01 13:43 (Reply)

Biden gun rule being drafted to effectively ban private sales: ATF whistleblowers

https://nypost.com/2024/01/31/news/biden-gun-rule-drafted-to-all-but-bar-private-sales-whistleblowers/

#7 feeblemind on 2024-02-01 11:11 (Reply)

WW III is about to start. Well it has already begun and we were asleep/missing. The enemy has already begun depleting our military resources. They have infiltrated our country. They have used our own people and legal system to emasculate our military. Here is what will happen next; we will be drawn into a major battle perhaps on two or more fronts. Our military will quickly be beaten by attrition and 5G weapons. We will be forced to sue for peace and lose all control over anything outside our country and will be "occupied" by an enemy force who will oversee destroying any ability to defend our country or our individual lives. Then there will be a massive invasion/immigration from the dominating countries and their people will take over our jobs, industries and homes. Killing us on the streets will go unpunished and it will continue until we are all dead or enslaved. The end!

#8 Anon on 2024-02-01 11:13 (Reply)

Moving to Red America... what's not to like? My state could mandate nothing on Covid. The lockdowns were primarily Federal agencies of which most should be permanently locked down nationwide. The others were corporates that quickly ended masking if they wanted to stay in business. The Amish and Mennonites are a blessing in disguise along with nearly all main street businesses.
Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks, and idiots is all we ask for.

#9 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-01 13:54 (Reply)

Black Swan government debt spiral... we can not spend our way to wealth. Government continues to devalue the dollar which is just another tax on the people. Make work projects do not work and that is where most of the money goes. It seems that the current make work projects are war and dispersing endless dollars to illegals and their affiliated NGO's, and expending endless hours and cash trying to get rid of Trump.
We have been in a hockey stick debt crisis since 1999. Measure our DJIA in ounces of gold to buy the Dow instead of fiat dollars which have NO definable value. Yea, that's right... we topped in the DOW in 1999 and the market has been going downhill ever since.

#10 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-01 14:20 (Reply)

"UConn seeks engineering ‘inclusion’ professor." This old white guy with 45 years of engineering experience is thinking of applying. Think I have a shot?

#11 John Fisher on 2024-02-01 14:47 (Reply)

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