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Tuesday, March 5. 2024

Tuesday morning links

Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport?


 How universities killed the academic - Flamboyant brilliance has been purged


 Renault Award: Plastic Makers Lied About Recycling for Decades


 Electric cars release MORE toxic emissions than gas-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment


 AI model distinguishes male and female brains with over 90% accuracy


California: It is hard to understand how there can be a political movement in favor of more crime, but there you have it


 WaPo Writer Makes It Official: Shoplifting Is Just Reparations


 Mayorkas Accused Gov. Abbott Of ‘Trying To Wreak Havoc’


 Justice Barrett Explains the Message Americans Should Take Away From the Trump Ballot Ruling


 Democrats Jump at Chance to 'Revive Legislation' to Kick Trump Off of the Ballot


 Gearing Up for ‘Biden’ Versus Trump: Not If, But When and How to Replace Biden


 How Abortion Became ‘the Defund the Police of the GOP’

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Belmont Club: Why DEI Is So Powerful

QUOTE:
Once a censoring ideology is incorporated in an institution it will actually become impossible to express a forbidden string giving rise to a set of things you cannot say, calculate upon, perceive or even schedule for discussion. This sets up a divorce from reality. With whole classes of phenomena now forbidden to understanding, an institution can become completely defenseless against them. A censored system will by definition generate hallucinations.

This similarity between machine and collective intelligence institutions make them vulnerable to similar weaknesses, like text string censorship and unnatural fixation. For example, when artificial intelligence or institutions find they can expand their instrumental power by linking it to a final goal it sets up an addictive cycle called instrumental convergence. The end increase their access to means and the means reinforce the ends. Ultimately the process becomes captured by an obsession. Cautionary examples of instrumental convergence abound in AI literature.

. . . The biggest victim of AI hallucination is ironically enough, are institutions supposedly rooted in science. Science crucially relies on not omitting pertinent facts. But censored 'science' cruises along confident in its objecivity until one day the bottom falls out.

. . . The big danger of censorship is not that it angers those who are silenced but that it blinds those who are doing the silencing.

https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2024/03/05/belmont-club-why-dei-is-so-powerful-n4927010
#1 feeblemind on 2024-03-05 08:23 (Reply)
"Nothing Will Make Sense To You Unless You Accept That The 2020 Election Was Stolen..."

QUOTE:
Allen says:

“I want you to listen very carefully. This is very, very important. In fact, it’s the key to understanding the world that we’re living in right now in the United States of America. Nothing that is happening can make sense to you unless you understand one thing. And this is something that you are forbidden from believing. Alright, this is the key to everything. Are you ready? The Democrats stole the 2020 election. They cheated! Alright, if you believe that, you can understand what’s going on. You have a lens to comprehend the world that we’re living in—the insanity. But if you don’t believe it, nothing makes sense.”

Allen explains that when the Democrats started prosecuting Trump, “what they thought was gonna happen is that the American people were going to abandon Trump.”

He points out that “…it didn’t. It had the opposite impact. It backfired on them. What actually happened was Donald Trump’s poll numbers improved. Improved! So they didn’t know what to do. They had to double down on that strategy.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nothing-will-make-sense-you-unless-you-accept-2020-election-was-stolen
#2 feeblemind on 2024-03-05 09:05 (Reply)
Heavy losses inflict ‘dramatic manpower crisis’ on Israel

QUOTE:
The Israeli military is demanding an addition of at least 7,000 soldiers to its forces due to a serious manpower crisis.

The 7,000 are needed on top of the soldiers already enlisting, the Israeli army said on 1 March.

“The army requires standards for another 7,500 officers and noncommissioned officers, while the Treasury currently approves only 2,500. These are unprecedented numbers, which indicate the shock that befell the IDF following almost 150 days of fighting, which began with heavy losses on 7 October,” Hebrew news site Ynet reported, citing the army’s General Staff.

https://thecradle.co/articles/heavy-losses-inflict-dramatic-manpower-crisis-on-israel
#3 feeblemind on 2024-03-05 09:24 (Reply)
Funny how "government" supports and pays for airports but any mention of support for rail travel is derided. Just think if 25% of short routes could be serviced by high speed rail what it would do for airport congestion, and noise! Either support rail like air or do not subsidize either one.
#4 The Egyptian on 2024-03-05 09:41 (Reply)
The government neither supports nor pays for airports. Airports are funded by taxes applied to each and every airline ticket that is purchased. It is simply the middleman collecting the tax that goes into the Airport fund which is a separate entity that operates like social security with no connection to the general fund.
Cities like Los Angelos always attempt to use the fund to finance roads and streets and other improvements around airports. They are generally refused the funding if it isn't related to the airport.

If you want funding for rail, including light rail, then a rail fund should be set up to do that. As an example of that failure, you can look at the Minnesota light rail project which doesn't even collect enough in ticket sales to support its daily operation costs much less provide capital for car and engine replacement. They spent a billion dollars out of the gas tax fund that they can never replace. Money sucked into another progressive black hole. If you want it, then pay for it instead of treating it like a student loan.
#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 13:23 (Reply)
Who collects those taxes and distributes it to the airports? Using your logic the government doesn't pay for the military either they merely collect taxes and the taxes are spent on the military. That is literally true for everything the government legally does.
#4.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-03-05 13:38 (Reply)
The Airport trust fund operates like social security. It is outside the usual budget funding process and is dedicated to airport infrastructure and only airport infrastructure.
Do the same with a Rail trust fund rather than robbing the gas tax fund at the state and federal level.
#4.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 14:11 (Reply)
Nope. The government money is a user fee paid by fliers and airlines.
#4.1.1.2 James on 2024-03-05 17:21 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Democrats Jump at Chance to 'Revive Legislation' to Kick Trump Off of the Ballot

That's exactly what the conservative majority of the Supreme Court said should happen. The original proposal was to allow for an action in the U.S. courts before a three judge panel with appeal directly to the Supreme Court. The proposal was tailored towards acts of January 6, but could easily be constructed more broadly to account for attempts at insurrection in the future.
#5 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 09:47 (Reply)
"Don't worry, though. The U.S. Supreme Court will squint and grimace and find some justification to keep Trump on the ballot..."

"The Supreme Court may squint and grimace enough to convince themselves that is exactly what the framers intended..."

"Being highly partisan, the Supreme Court will almost certainly allow Trump on the ballot, but they will probably have to squint and grimace to find originalist justification."

^^^Our own little Zachie-poo, just back in January. Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson, hard core, partisan originalists that they are, squint and grimaced their way just so they could keep their boy Don on the ballot.

But keep spinning that this decision is a vindication for you. Telling us who you are again.
#5.1 SK on 2024-03-05 10:35 (Reply)
SK: But keep spinning that this decision is a vindication for you.

In other words, we were correct. From the same post:

Z: Having different states reaching different conclusions seems contrary to the framers' intent. The U.S. Congress can and should step in to resolve the question under Section 5. However, the U.S. Congress is dysfunctional and barely able to elect a Speaker. That means varying state laws, state courts, and the federal courts have to try to sort out the current politically destabilizing situation. {emphasis added}

The Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 is not self-executing, even though the Equal Protection Clause uses similar language and is considered self-executing, and Section 5 applies to both clauses. Nonetheless, as we pointed out, allowing states to individually make the decision is destabilizing; so, so-called strict originalists had to be, well, not so strict after all. It wasn't such a stretch for liberals, who take a broader view of how the Constitution works, including on issues of federalism.

Notably, the so-called conservative wing of the Supreme Court, unrestrainedly went beyond the actual question of the matter at hand, but ruled on potential issues not at hand, finding that only Congress can make the determination with legislation that reflects “congruence and proportionality.”

As Justice Robert Jackson said of the Supreme Court, “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final."
#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 11:15 (Reply)
Old Zachie-poo, always certain, almost invariably wrong.

It was 9-0, little feller. You were wrong. The only surprise to anyone who (unlike you) has actually read and understands the Constitution was that for once the leftist justices were not utterly predictable.

"As thousands of lawsuits were filed under the extension of the statute of limitations, the law clearly didn't just include Trump. You may mean the ex post facto provision, under which civil actions are not covered. See Calder v. Bull."

And this, boys and girls, is the left's idea of equal standing under the law--the law would never have been written except as a way to go after Trump. The other suits are collateral, unintended consequences, part of a long pattern of sacrificing whoever they must to gain and hold onto power.
#5.1.1.1 SK on 2024-03-05 13:45 (Reply)
SK: You were wrong.

Huh? We specifically said the Supreme Court would allow Trump to stay on the ballot, because allowing states to individually make the decision would be destabilizing. And that is exactly what happened. Try to respond to our actual position rather than something you hear in your head.

SK: equal standing under the law--the law would never have been written except as a way to go after Trump.

There's an app a process for that. If Trump believes it to be a violation of the Constitution, he should have moved to have the lawsuit dismissed in his original response before the summary judgment against him. Trump has until Saturday to file his appeal on the Carroll verdict.
#5.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 14:05 (Reply)
Incorrect. You said the "conservatives" on the court would "squint and grimace" trying to find a reason based in originalism to keep Trump in the race. You were wrong, and you're trying to distract from that.

If you had an understanding of the law or history, or maybe cracked a book every once in a while, you'd know that creating a law to go after one individual is a perversion of the sprit of due process and equal standing as understood--and fought for--over centuries of US and common law. You're welcome.

The fact that you support and make excuses and try to distract from this abuse use of the power of government isn't surprising. Sad, but not surprising. Keep telling us who you are.

9-0, little one.
#5.1.1.1.1.1 SK on 2024-03-05 18:39 (Reply)
SK: You said the "conservatives" on the court would "squint and grimace" trying to find a reason based in originalism to keep Trump in the race.

Interesting use of quotes. Here is the comment at issue. Where do you see the word "conservative"?

Regardless, our comment seems just as valid today as it did then. We indicated that the court would see a state patchwork as disruptive, which they did. We also indicated the court would see the problem as a congressional responsibility, which they did. More particularly, we indicated that the court would find a way to keep Trump on the ballot. As Justice Robert Jackson said of the Supreme Court, “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final."

Congress should legislate the issue. Until then, Section 3 is effectively neutered.
#5.1.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2024-03-06 08:28 (Reply)
Oh my, you just made my day.

Now the Our Democracy crowd will write legislation, that is for all practical purposes a Bill of Attainder, without an actual name. Much like they did in New York, so that slime ball woman, who couldn’t even remember what store she was fondled in, could sue Trump. Evil never sleeps.
#5.1.2 B. Hammer on 2024-03-05 11:22 (Reply)
B. Hammer: Now the Our Democracy crowd will write legislation, that is for all practical purposes a Bill of Attainder, without an actual name.

Section 3 legislation is unlikely to pass in the current Congress. It's doubtful such legislation could pass as long as Congress remains dysfunctional. That means Section 3 is effectively neutered.

B. Hammer: Much like they did in New York, so that slime ball woman, who couldn’t even remember what store she was fondled in, could sue Trump.

As thousands of lawsuits were filed under the extension of the statute of limitations, the law clearly didn't just include Trump. You may mean the ex post facto provision, under which civil actions are not covered. See Calder v. Bull.
#5.1.3 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 11:45 (Reply)
Please STFU and just go away. Take your ChatGPT with you. You are annoying the adults.
#5.1.3.1 Zachinoff on 2024-03-05 11:55 (Reply)
"That's exactly what the conservative majority of the Supreme Court said should happen." No, that isn't what they said "should" happen. They said Trump (or anyone else) would have to be convicted of the federal offense of insurrection after such a law had been passed. Since the 14th amendment doesn't apply to presidents.

Despite LW prosecutors stretching multiple laws beyond recognition in their irrational and dangerous lawfare. not one has shown the slightest inclination to seek a conviction on such a charge. Most likely because Jan 6 was not an insurrection by any stretch of the imagination. It was a protest with a small amount of rioting and vandalism. An afternoon picnic compared to the riots of BLM and antifa, whose participants have acted with impunity due to prosecutorial corruption.

Furthermore, all of the prosecutions were timed to interfere with the 2024 presidential election, and thus postponed till far later than necessary. They are all now in the position of not being able to carry them out by their desired deadlines due to their own malfeasance and corruption. Cry more.

I'll add, only the dumbest of fools would think the tactic of using dubious legal theories to keep a popular presidential candidate off of the election ballot was not corrupt and highly dangerous.

The fact that congress won't do what you want them to doesn't mean states get to ignore the constitution. Otherwise, red state can do a lot of stuff you don't like.
#5.2 James on 2024-03-05 17:41 (Reply)
James: Since the 14th amendment doesn't apply to presidents.

Oh? Please provide the text in the Supreme Court opinion which finds Section 3 does not apply to the office of the president.
#5.2.1 Zachriel on 2024-03-06 08:11 (Reply)
I'll do better than that: the office of president is conspicuously absent from the list of offices which one convicted of "insurrection" cannot hold in the text of Section three of the 14th Amendment. As was pointed out by Justice Brown, who is tied with Sotomayor as the most deranged leftists on SCOTUS.

I'll add, not only was there no insurrection on Jan. 6th, even if there had been, nothing Trump did or said can reasonably be considered involvement in such an imaginary "insurrection."
#5.2.1.1 James on 2024-03-06 18:16 (Reply)
I'll do better than that: the office of president is conspicuously absent from the list of offices which one convicted of "insurrection" cannot hold in the text of Section three of the 14th Amendment. As was pointed out by Justice Brown, who is tied with Sotomayor as the most deranged leftists on SCOTUS
#5.2.1.2 James on 2024-03-06 18:17 (Reply)
James: I'll do better than that

Equivocating your claim is not “better than that.” The claim was that the Supreme Court found that Section 3 didn’t apply to the president. It was one of the issues raised on appeal. Please, either provide the specific language in the opinion or abandon your claim.
#5.2.1.3 Zachriel on 2024-03-06 20:23 (Reply)
They will steal the 2024 election too. And if the vote for Trump is so big that even their steal doesn't give them the presidency they will spend the three months until he takes office to sabotage him and the U.S. This is about them and their power they don't care about the country except for the power and money, they will burn it down rather than lose that power. There will be a lot of violence running up to the election and if Trump wins it will get worse.

The Biden presidency reminds me of that skit on TV where some schlub with a ear piece is told what to say by three guys in another room and hilarity ensues as the puppet masters make the dupe say and do stupider and stupider things all in the name of comedy. The difference is that Obama, or who ever tells Biden what to say, are not doing this for comedy, they are committed socialists/communists who intend to tear down our country and build back communist.

Most of America is asleep. I don't mean they don't see the news or that they are unaware of what is happening at least from the perspective of the MSM. I mean they would laugh at you if you told them Obama and a cabal of communists are trying to destroy the country. They haven't quite figured out yet that the entire U.S. government has been corrupted and is being used to try to destroy the country and turn it into a one party country where the left has total control. The MSM is lying to us and it is easier to believe them than it is to contemplate the alternative. But as the left becomes more desperate to accelerate the takeover and their actions become more transparent it will be impossible to ignore. I think we are headed towards true insurrection but this time with armed force, police or military and possibly martial law.
#6 OneGuy on 2024-03-05 10:04 (Reply)
OneGuy: They will steal the 2024 election too.

Please provide the best, specific evidence that supports your claim.
#6.1 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 10:17 (Reply)
Biden is incompetent. Obviously someone else is speaking into his earpiece or writing into his teleprompter.

It reminds me of that joke:
An 80 year old man marries a beautiful 21 year old woman and within a year she is pregnant. The man is pleased that he will once again be a father. He is talking with the doctor and bragging about his virility and the doctor say I think you need to prepare your self to expect that the child is not yours. The old man says of course it's mine why wouldn't it be. The doctor thinks a moment and then tells the old man; imagine that you are sitting by a beaver pond and you see a beaver across the pond get out onto the land. You take you hand and shape it like a gun and make believe you pull the trigger. You hear a loud bang and the beaver falls over shot dead. Do you think your hand fired that bullet and killed the beaver? The man replies of course not, someone else shot that beaver. To which the doctor replies, that's my point.
#6.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-03-05 14:01 (Reply)
OneGuy: Biden is incompetent.

No, but even if so, that's not evidence the 2020 election was stolen or that the 2024 election will be stolen. And that is supposedly "the best, specific evidence that supports your claim."
#6.1.2 Zachriel on 2024-03-05 14:13 (Reply)
And that is supposedly "the best, specific evidence that supports your claim."

You misunderstood my post. There is no doubt now that the 2020 election was stolen, that is a given and I don't need to prove it My "claim" was that Biden isn't running things. My proof is that Biden is mentally incompetent and it is obvious that he is being told what to do , what to say, who to talk to and who to avoid. Someone is running this shadow government and it clearly isn't Biden.
#6.1.2.1 OneGuy on 2024-03-05 23:17 (Reply)
OneGuy: I don't need to prove it

Did you know that Taylor Swift is from Alpha Centauri? She's the vanguard of an alien invasion. She is brainwashing young women with pop music and highly relatable lyrics. Proof? We don't need no proof.
#6.1.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-03-06 08:33 (Reply)
Illegal immigration and states allowing them to vote through motor voter, welfare voter and now it appears it will be paid college students registering voters. And before you poo-poo the citizen check, I voted in a California election... they didn't ask for squat except for an address and I had never voted there before.
#6.1.3 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 15:26 (Reply)
You really have to hand it to the Our Democracy party. Nothing stops them from getting on with their agenda.

The Colorado legislators should begin impeachment proceedings against all 9 state Supreme Court justices. They have shown themselves to be political activists, unable to restrain themselves. There is no way they can be impartial jurists. However, this is Commierado and the Our Democracy crowd proclaims that the four leftist on the Supreme Court are cowards. They failed to uphold the Marxist agenda of, by any means necessary. The Our Democracy crowd says the Court should be eliminated, or most certainly radically changed, so that Our Democracy always prevails.
#7 B. Hammer on 2024-03-05 10:24 (Reply)
They should ALL be charged with election interference along with the 51 IC agents and the FBI agents that have be covering the Biden Jr.
#7.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 13:35 (Reply)
Colorado's Supreme Court has seven justices, not nine. The decision was 4-3, with the minority writing a very aggressive condemnation of the majority in its opinion. Mayve just impeach the four in the majority.
#7.2 James on 2024-03-05 17:49 (Reply)
Hey, that’s two days in a row you’ve corrected my errors. Thanks.
#7.2.1 B. Hammer on 2024-03-05 20:00 (Reply)
GOOD NEWS.... Victoria Nuland is 'retiring' as Ukraine is left hanging on the ropes while the neocons are in a crying depression. The Ukraines might finally catch a break and find terms with Russia. Zelensky can retire to his Florida mansion... if he avoids termination from the locals.
#8 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 13:46 (Reply)
Nothing says guilty of misuse of power like retiring just before the opposing party takes office.
#8.1 JustMe on 2024-03-05 14:05 (Reply)
On another note, Doritos tells BudLight;
"Here, hold my beer..."

QUOTE:
The maker of Doritos snack chips has hired a transgender influencer as a “chip ambassador” who has mocked children who are victims of rape, has admitted to fantasizing about pedophilia, and has advocated for the destruction of the traditional family unit.

https://lidblog.com/doritos-hires-transgender-who-fantasized-about-pedophiia-mocked-victims-of-rape-wants-destruction-of-traditional-family/
#9 Zachinoff on 2024-03-05 13:53 (Reply)
Fossil fuels that are not actually fossil fuels... from WRSA today.
with Dr. Willie Soon

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1744777758507504061
#10 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 14:20 (Reply)
re the WP article justifying shoplifting because of history...Would she like to see Americans reacting to shoplifters in the way that most Indian tribes reacted to incursions on land they considered theirs?
#11 David Foster (Link) on 2024-03-05 14:29 (Reply)
And the grab and go crowd is always surprised when they wind up with a retail goods desert.
#11.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-03-05 15:30 (Reply)
I noticed the liar appeared yet I've asked to have this troll removed many times.

He lied earlier about SCOTUS. Evidence of these lies can be found on previous posts I made - when he stupidly responded and claimed it was legitimate and supportable by the states.

I naturally refused responding to this POS ass in any way based on his lies. But today he expanded his current BS because it is literally the opposite of his previous posts.

He'll naturally lie and try to respond to me. But he is consistently dangerous as usual and full of crap.

He still hasn't done what I've told him to do. Name himself, which I DO KNOW though I was told by my corporation it was not proper for me to name his posts and comments publicly as that is not how corporations handle this.

He remains a hiding piece of garbage and makes absurd claims. Which is a shame. I once offered to be friendly with this POS publicly and friendly in several fashions if he went public.

He lied, and hid, and avoided all this. My name has been exposed several times and I've never worried about this. I remain "anonymous" in a fashion mainly because it's not a bad idea to use a descriptive name. Yet the name chosen by this POS idiot of a certain "angel" is just futher lies and BS about the crap pulled by people like this. False and dangerous and problematic.

This person would serve us all better if he' was honest and just left. He's a frightened pile of cow waste.
#12 Bulldog on 2024-03-05 15:13 (Reply)

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