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Saturday, November 23. 2024

Saturday morning links

Notre Dame apologizes after telling hockey fans not to wear green, Shamrocks, ‘Fighting Irish’


Pronoun-Wielding Jaguar Boss Goes On Damage Control After Cringeworthy Woke Ad


For contrast, A Volvo ad


 Uproar at U.N. Climate Summit as Envoys Say Proposed $250 Billion a Year from West Not Enough


Experts Recommend You Avoid Using Heat In Your EV


A Second Trump Presidency is an Opportunity for Climate Science to Reset. Rather
than doubling down on the misguided notion that science is an authority
that can dictate policy, scientists should strive to delineate between
scientific facts and their political preferences


A Look At President-Elect Trump's Picks For The Key Energy Policy Positions


An Unscientific American - Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure
from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers
of mixing facts and ideology. 


Where Have All the Lefties Gone?


Dems Don't Grasp How Fringe and Cringe Their Coastal Elites Are


Why Asian Americans Are Moving Right


"The politicized class of professors is a serious political liability to any party that it supports."


'The View's Not-So-Sunny Hostin Is Forced to Read Yet Another 'Legal Note' Live on Air


Adam Carolla Explains the Problem With Progressives – They Never Stop Pushing and Go Too Far


EXPELLIARMUS! HBO Tells Trans Activists They Have No Power Here


Saturday Miscellany


Denver Mayor Suggests Police May Be Used to Block Deportation of Illegals


Just When You Thought Illegal Immigration Couldn't Get Worse, Biden Does This...


Germans Being German: “You Can’t Say I Hate Free Speech! I’ll Have You Arrested!” Minister Says


The Emperor Has No Brains. America's post-electoral military
escalation might amount to nothing, or it could be the last act of an
empire gone mad. On ATACMS, ICBMs, and more nuclear poker

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"America's post-electoral military escalation"

Frankly it scares me. Fear that it is an actual intent to burn it all down before Jan 20th so that they can retain power and rule over the ashes. The best case I can make for it is that they are simply trying to screw everything up so badly that Trump's 4 years will be chaos and make it easier for them to win in 2028. That is the best argument I can make to explain their action and THAT is despicable. They want to plunge us into chaos for four years so they can take back power! And it is actually worse because IF they admitted this and actually came out on TV and said it to the nation all of their supporters, all 74 million who voted for her would be OK with it.
#1 OneGuy on 2024-11-23 10:30 (Reply)
Adam Carolla Explains the Problem With Progressives – They Never Stop Pushing and Go Too Far Shut Up
#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2024-11-23 10:40 (Reply)
Scientific facts vs policy preferences.

Also vs competing goods, like preserving jobs for the less well-off, or people versus animals. Cleaning up is a good thing, and important. A healthy environment is a good thing, and important. But they are not the only good things.

And when I write that, I am frankly giving them the benefit of every doubt. There is the uncomfortable possibility that these interventions benefit their class over others.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2024-11-23 12:50 (Reply)
EV Heating: GET a TESLA! I use my heating all the time, including for the steering wheel. Have an X and a "3". Get A Tesla.
#4 ns on 2024-11-23 19:32 (Reply)
Scientific American hasn't been scientific in years and was bought by the Germans so it isn't even American.
#5 Ray on 2024-11-24 05:00 (Reply)
QUOTE:
A Second Trump Presidency is an Opportunity for Climate Science to Reset ... Rather than doubling down on the misguided notion that science is an authority that can dictate policy, scientists should strive to delineate between scientific facts and their political preferences

Agreed. Science and policy should be clearly delimited.

QUOTE:
Thus, when Trump has done things like call the entire concept of climate change a hoax, this can legitimately be called out as science denial.

Agreed. Anthropogenic global warming is a strongly supported scientific finding.

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Thus, it will not be strictly “anti-science,” when the Trump administration withdraws from the Paris Agreement for a second time, or when it implements policies more friendly to domestic fossil fuel production.

Trump based his decision on his science denialism, so any derived policy is rationally unfounded and scientifically unmoored. While science and policy should be delimited, one can't devise realistic policies or even have reasonable policy discussions while denying the scientific facts.
#6 Zachriel on 2024-11-24 07:27 (Reply)
'Denver Mayor Suggests Police May Be Used to Block Deportation of Illegals'

Yeah, I suspect those police are going to be on Trump's side now.
#7 Maniac on 2024-11-24 09:24 (Reply)

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