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Thursday, February 25. 2021Are you Woke?Related: The Danger of (three) Unassailable Ideas - Treating beliefs as truths makes it impossible for the academy to do its job Well, beliefs are worthy of analysis too.
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Thursday morning links
Very "scientific" Babylon Bee Nails Disney to the Wall on Their Woke Warning Label for "The Muppet Show" Ben Franklin’s Name Scrubbed From Tacoma City Park Democrats Send Insane Letter to Cable Carriers and Big Tech, Demanding a Ban on Conservative Media Tucker Carlson Strikes Gold, Triggers CNN Into Proving His Point After Segment on Disinformation “Systemic Racism,” “Equity,” and the End of Civil Rights Tucker Carlson's plan to end systemic racism and income inequality in America WSJ: The Equality Act Makes Women Unequal. H.R. 5 erases ‘sex’ as a legal category, with dire consequences. Why public employee unions don't serve the public's best interests Democrats’ cynical ‘Jan. 6’ politics: Goodwin As illegal border crossings surge, Psaki and media redefine 'kids in cages' as 'migrant facility for children' Pro-Family News Outlet Censored By Twitter for Stating Biden Admin Official’s Biological Sex Judge Blocks Enforcement of Biden’s Moratorium on Most Deportations Wednesday, February 24. 2021Wednesday morning links
Virtual 'Celebration of Life' Being Planned for Rush Limbaugh NYT: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101 Fauci Is Not Your God DR. FAUCI’S BAFFLING ADVICE Smith College disputes Jodi Shaw exposé: Our “equity and inclusion training” has not created “a racially hostile environment for white people” Biden Energy Dept Allegedly Blocked Texas From Increasing Power Generation Because It Would Violate Green Energy Policy… NY Times Notices That All These Companies Proclaiming They’re Doing Something On ‘Climate Change’ Mostly Aren’t Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland: ‘It’s Time To Stop All New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure In America’… New York, a Dying City in a Dying State Big Tech "Deplatforming" Becomes Ever More Audacious Julie Kelly: Feds Keep Claiming It Was an "Armed Insurrection." And They Keep Failing to Produce the Actual "Arms" Carried During It. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s Mother: ‘He Wasn’t Hit on the Head’ by Trump Supporter Ex-Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warns US becoming 'totalitarian state before our eyes' under Biden Biden’s ‘Kids In Cages’ Moment: Carrizo Springs Facility Re-Opens Juan Williams: The GOP is a party without ideas How Does the West Factor in Africa's Problems? Trudeau Dithers as Canadian Parliament Recognizes Uyghur Genocide Tuesday, February 23. 2021Tuesday morning links
Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why "Butterfly Effect". Quillette: Remembering Karl Popper Hypotheses must be falsifiable New Studies Suggest One COVID Vaccine Shot May Be Enough for Some Patients Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster Malevolent Elf and Undercover Bug-Chaser Anthony Fauci: We May Be Returning to "Normality" by... 2022, and Even Then, "Normality" Will Vary By User Experience Despite Successful Vaccine Rollout, Jen Psaki Threatens 'Months and Months' of 'Sacrifice' and 'Suffering' Hey Jen - enough optimism? White People, Europeans Obsessed With Time, WA State Official Says White people (only white people) believe that "On time means 5 minutes late." Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon blacklists book for criticizing transgender movement Democrats take first steps to censor conservative TV channels OANN, Newsmax and Fox News The "Muppet Show" disclaimer "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures." Mainly Scandinavians. I am 10% Scandinavian and I resent their stereotyping. In fact, it diminishes my sense of personhood... 90% White Man Disproves White Supremacy by Insisting He's Black and Qualifies for Affirmative Action After Democrats Destroyed the Restaurant Business in New York with Insane COVID Policies, Democrat Senator Schumer Is Pushing for $25B in Relief from the Federal Government Who does that $ come from? ANDREW CUOMO’S LEGAL WOES Biden AG Pick Merrick Garland: Far-Left Rioters Attacking Federal Courthouse Not Domestic Terrorism Because It’s At Night When Court Is Closed Yes, these idiots are "threatening the USA":
Merrick Garland Won’t Promise to Protect Durham Investigation What Durham investigation? Joe Biden brings America back to bad Obama days: Goodwin Ex-DHS Chief: ‘Far-Left’ Biden Immigration Bill Signals To Traffickers ‘It’s Okay To Come,’ ‘Extreme Incentive’ For Future Illegal Immigration Duh. Can we focus on Legal Immigration? How the GOP can win back Congress
Monday, February 22. 2021An Orwellian timeVDH on Impeachment and the ‘Cancer’ of Woke Ideology
Monday morning links
1st clone of US endangered species, a ferret, announced Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’ The Boundless Arrogance of Bill Gates Pathetic NYC Mayor Shuts Down Skating Rinks To Punish Trump Organization We Have Another Fauci Reversal...This Time on the COVID Vaccine Entire California School Board Resigns After Mocking Parents For Wanting Schools Open Gone Crazy - A New York City public school principal calls on white parents to “subvert white authority.” Majority Of Americans Believe Increased Government Power Means Less Individual Freedom, New Poll Finds Why would Texas have prepared for record cold and snow if they listened to the media and other global warming fanatics the last forty years? YouTube Takes Down New Trump Interview It Only Gets Worse For New York In The Competition With Florida Rattled Andrew Cuomo Rants About Nursing Home Scandal ‘Lies,’ Won’t Take Responsibility Um, what is he paid to do? Joe Biden Ends Trump Program that Targeted Sex Offenders in the US Illegally Sunday, February 21. 2021Back to church at Lent
2/3rds of my kids got to their churches today too. The traditional Lenten hymn. Brings tears.
Saturday, February 20. 2021Saturday morning links Americans' Lust To 'Cancel' One Another Should Spark Soul Searching Wrongthink at Smith College Baylor students want to remove statue of...Baylor? Facebook's Ban on News in Australia Is Waking People Up Forget About Ted Cruz, Governor Cuomo Killed People… Media Begins Noticing Cuomo’s Toxic Culture … When Aimed At Dems Johns Hopkins Prof Sees US Herd Immunity By April, Fauci Fearmongers 2022 For 'Return To Normality' The Pandemic Is Over. 2020 was the year of government overreach. Make 2021 the year of organized civil disobedience and friendly reunions CNN: Biden ‘Torn’ On Schools Because Of Powerful Democrat Special Interest Groups…Stating the obvious. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Proposes New Election Integrity Measures – Wants To Ban Mail-In Voting Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Discrimination Has Muddied Waters on Title IX. Challenges Could Clear That Up. UK Court Essentially Shuts Down Uber, Lyft Dogs and politics Our Dire Future Under Biden Friday, February 19. 2021Friday morning links Texas Power Crisis Puts Keystone XL Cancelation in Perspective “If They Can Harass and Silence a Professional Journalist, They Can Silence Anybody” – Twitter Bans Top Conservative Investigative Journalist Paul Sperry Without Warning Australia took a stand against Facebook — and got silenced Biden Got Vaccine Dose in Dec, Now Claims There Was No Vaccine When He Took Office The Evidence Is Clear: We Can Open Schools Safely Now City Of Chicago Reviewing ‘Potentially Offensive’ Statues Including Those Of Lincoln And Washington The Greatest National Security Threat by Any Analysis is China. China Emits About 30% of Global GHGs, Twice US Emissions Thursday, February 18. 2021A Rush miscellanyI first heard Rush Limbaugh years ago when I had long commutes. I thought "Who the heck is this guy." He was articulating, humorously, thoughts and doubts that had been bubbling in me just below the surface. At the time, I was a normal uncritical Liberal thinking the same way I had been since age 17. I would not term it a conversion, but my mind did open to a kind of "critical thinking" that I was not getting from the news. As somebody put it, "awakening from a mindless political slumber." Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism. By Ben Domenech Powerline: RUSH LIMBAUGH, RIP Rush had good fun with music. His theme music was from The Pretenders' My City Was Gone And who was Snerdly? This guy:
One his many good ones, from the Rush Limbaugh Singers:
Thursday morning links The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence Slate Star Codex and the Gray Lady’s Decay. The New York Times hit piece on a heterodox blogger is a bad stumble — the latest of many Why did The NYT even bother with this guy? Hotcold Take: All The Winter Storm Power Outages Are Linked To ‘Climate Change’ Did Frozen Wind Turbines Impact the Texas Freeze? Here's the Data The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels. Everything They Don't Like Is Now A Public Health Emergency Harris: We’re Following The Science On School Reopenings Except When Teachers Unions Reject It, Or Something I’m an epidemiologist and a father. Here’s why I’m losing patience with our teachers’ unions. Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement How Rush Limbaugh rescued me from liberalism, By Dex Bahr Eating Biden’s Lunch, From the man who said China is not our competition. Joe Biden Excuses the Uyghur Genocide as ‘Just a Chinese Cultural Norm,’ Spreading CCP Propaganda Wednesday, February 17. 2021Wednesday morning links
We Didn’t Start the Fire. How much blame do the baby boomers deserve? “We are in our 50s and have no real retirement savings. What do we do now?” I suggest continuing to work Maryland Teachers’ Unions Still Not Accepting The Offer They Asked For Some Fairfax Students Go Back to School 2 Days a Week, Wear Masks, Sit 6 Feet Apart While Their Teachers Stay Home. Is this really what reopening looks like? CDC Admits It Based School Guidelines on Teacher Input and Stakeholders. Stakeholders, in other words, lobbying groups. Lobbying groups over parents and students. Good things about modern farming methods The Compound Fractures of Identity Politics - Characterizing people by skin color or sexual practice violates core principles of a free society and worsens human divisions. The Grand Illusion (of fair elections) New Comey Email Raises Additional Questions About His Use and Defense of The Steele Dossier. There is a new and intriguing document related to the Russian investigation out this week. Conspiracies everywhere Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by Socialism Baby steps Tuesday, February 16. 2021Tuesday morning links Snow Takes Down Green Energy Wind Turbines and Solar Panels In US and the World Get Ready for COVID-19 Variants Panic Porn Perma Mandates How The Legacy Media Convinced Americans That Andrew Cuomo Was A Hero Why Did the Pandemic Drive People to Purchase Tons of Toilet Paper? Glenn Loury: Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America NYC Public High School Calls for White Abolitionists Asylum Seekers Stage Hunger Strike over Quality of Free Hotel Food They Can't Quit Him: Democrats Have a New Plan for How to 'Get' Trump Monday, February 15. 2021Monday morning links
A history lesson that floats my boat: the stories of British slave rescues we never hear about Speaking Of Religious Mass Hysteria, How About The Campaign Against Fossil Fuels? VDH: Our Animal Farm - The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare VDH sounds depressed #DisruptTexts Tries to Cancel the Odyssey. My experience teaching mythology shows why that’s a terrible idea Ex-NYT Boss Jill Abramson Responds To Unrest At Paper As Woke Activists Dictate Policy Thought Police at The New York Times New York Post Receives Leak, Reveals NYT Columnist’s Scathing Article Against His Own Paper Half Of NY Times Employees Don’t Feel Free To Speak Their Mind At Work… NYT Retracts Story First Published on Jan. 8 That Capitol Hill Police Officer Was Killed by a Fire Extinguisher Thrown by Protesters Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was the Fastest Growing Job Category on LinkedIn in During 2020 There's More Word On How Long the National Guard Might Stay In D.C., It's Starting to Get Crazy Biden Administration Will Allow 25,000 Migrants to Enter U.S. From Mexico Why? NYP: Ugly truth about ‘Honest Joe’: Devine The Biden Administration Calls Out China for Not Cooperating with WHO Investigators Duh Tucker Carlson Asks Question of the Day: The Democrats 'Won Everything,' Why Are They So 'Crazy-Person Mad'? Dowd: Trump’s Taste for Blood - If Republicans won’t convict, bring on the handcuffs The hate is strong in her. It feels personal. Saturday, February 13. 2021Saturday morning links Stonehenge: Did the stone circle originally stand in Wales? Transgender Mania is a New Twist on an Old Story Cuomo Unmasked - The New York governor’s long-running media celebration was largely based on a fiction—his dramatic understatement of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes. Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics' Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week Tucker Carlson calls out those trying to shut down his show and Fox News THE TIMES LOSES IT BLM Imbeciles Running Amok Through NYC Again… Progressive Policies Fail in California Biden Cancels Emergency Border Wall Funding As DHS Prepares To Admit 25,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico This may be the most fearsome US Navy weapon in the Pacific Palestinians: More Corruption as Biden Resumes Financial Aid Friday, February 12. 2021Friday morning links
Doctors warn Covid will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it Duh Biden Administration Considering Whether to Impose Domestic Travel Restrictions Most parents think COVID lockdowns damaged their child’s social skills Cuomo Coverup? Aide Admits Nursing Home Data Purposefully Concealed So Feds Wouldn't Find Out History, Heritage, and the Many Troubles with 1619 Sharansky: The Doublethinkers. In assessing my own liberation, I recall a conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today Gina Carano Fired From 'The Mandalorian' For Comparing Cancel Culture To Nazi Germany President Donald Trump's Accomplishments VDH: The World Goes On While America Sleeps Their Cups Runneth Over. State and local government revenues have recovered from the pandemic, and further federal aid is unnecessary. In government, there is no such thing as "enough" The International Criminal Court Threatens Middle East Peace Thursday, February 11. 2021Thursday morning links
Who’s Up For Some “Pearl Milling Company” Syrup On Their Pancakes? I like Maple Syrup, but no problem with Aunt Jemima. Why Aren’t More Schools Opening? Teachers union pet: Biden moves the goalposts on re-opening schools CDC: Fully vaccinated people don't need to quarantine after COVID exposure That's me. Good to go - and I do. But I always did. CDC Begins Recommending Wearing Two Masks Why not three? College offers racially segregated mental health resources Prof says Tom Brady's 'white male omnipotence' 'buttresses American white supremacy' Title lX: The Due Process Brick Wall CANCEL CULTURE AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARE MEANS OF CONTROLLING ACCESS TO THE MIDDLE CLASS China Joe Looks To Help “Climate Migrants” Or Something Lee Smith: The American Elite's Primary Allegiance Is No Longer to America, But to the Communist Party of China, That Makes Them Rich and Keeps Them In Power More On The "Stimulus": We're About To Get Scammed Yet Again On "Poverty" Wednesday, February 10. 2021School openings‘Anti-Science’: Doctor, Critics Rip Biden Over School Reopening Timeline There is zero evidence that kids can infect adults. Teachers just seem to prefer zoom. No stress, and same pay and benefits. What does the federal gummint have to do with this anyway?
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Do Looks Matter in an Academic Career? Appearance and comportment matter a lot in life in general Charles Murray must be the bravest man in America. Democrats Cry Foul – Say Tom Brady Winning All Those Super Bowls During Black History Month Is “Racist” Tom Brady is the left’s worst nightmare With a Star Science Reporter’s Purging, Mob Culture at The New York Times Enters a Strange New Phase Evil stuff going on COVID Cases Now Lowest Since October, It’s Probably Because Biden* Is A Mask Wearing Alpha Chad… CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Pandemic "crisis" is suddenly over Come One, Come All - President Biden’s immigration agenda will be a disaster for working-class Americans. Biden Quietly Revokes Trump’s Ban On Chinese Communist Propaganda In Schools No, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen — but yes, it was underhandedly tilted A Quick Post-Mortem on the Trump years He sees it the way I do. A Tragedy in the Greek sense. Tuesday, February 9. 2021Tuesday morning links
The 3 Worst Things About That Terrible Jeep Super Bowl Ad Study: Modern Warm Period Started Around 1825 NYP: Open Our Schools and other commentary TIME TO CLOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOREVER? Schools Are Safe, If Not Havens from COVID A Shadow of Things to Come: DOJ Filings in Affirmative Action and Title IX Cases ‘Neo-Racism’ in the Justice Department What To Do When There’s A COVID Vaccine Glut The Golden State updated its vaccine rollout to include medicinal cannabis workers in some of the highest prioritization tiers. The Humiliating Art of the Woke Apology Moral Narcissism and the Show Trial of Donald Trump MSNBC: In America, ‘We’ve Been Taught’ That Blacks Are Less Than Whites… The Nascent Biden Doctrine. Biden’s “doctrine” is nothing but useless multilateralism. Iran: Still a State-Sponsor of Terrorism, and Growing Bolder Monday, February 8. 2021Monday morning linksThanks to Roger, King of Sicily, for our recent morning links. Also Bruce's. What a team we have
Digging Up Old Bodies: Richard III and Jimmy Hoffa Cold Reality Dawns: COVID Is Likely Here To Stay Biden* Says Summer Is Cancelled This Year Too… Killing the Classics Beethoven Considered for Cancelation Scott Adams: Teacher Unions run the country Biden favors teachers unions over students’ education Bill de Blasio Seven Year Report Card As New York City Mayor Here Come the 'Climate Lockdowns' Black Lives Matter, Antifa March Through DC, Chant ‘Burn It Down’ White House Appears to Confirm Hunter Biden Still Holds Stake in Chinese Private Equity Firm Biden ends Trump-era deals with Central American countries to curb asylum claims at US border A Couple Of Very Safe Bets For The Next Four Years VDH: When (or If) Comes the Pushback? Joe Biden is now unapologetically leading the most radical left-wing movement in the nation’s history. Canada Warns Athletes To Not Criticize Chinese Communist Party French Court Finds France Is Not Complying With Paris Climate Accords… During Pandemic, China Sent Millions of Counterfeit Masks, Test Kits to US The hidden world of the doctors Cuba sends overseas We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review. A remarkable analysis identifies ‘Mao 2.0’ as the west’s new cold war adversary Forging 21st-Century Strategic Deterrence By Admiral Charles A. Richard, U.S. Navy Saturday, February 6. 2021Saturday Links From All Over
Temperature, Humidity and Latitude Analysis to Predict Potential Spread and Seasonality for COVID-19
You're welcome. Again. Some more. Association of Daily Wear of Eyeglasses With Susceptibility to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection
Can't wait for Fauci to tell us to wear two pairs of eyeglasses. The Long Decline of Global Interest Rates
Paul Volcker was either a god or a devil, depending on who you ask. But he was certainly nowhere in-between. Christopher Plummer: Star of The Sound of Music dies at 91
He was Commodus before Joaquin was born, and better at it too. He was the definitive Rudyard Kipling, THE skinflint millionaire, Kaiser Wilhelm, more Rommel than James Mason, and more Barrymore than Barrymore. And still they hang the Sound of Mucus around his neck. Rest easy Sir Charles Litton. We'll remember you. Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes -Erasmus Texas Republicans endorse legislation to allow vote on secession from US
Please keep in mind that secession is only cool when California threatens to do it. 'Coup Attempt' of Reddit's Wallstreetbets Forum Is Averted
Like campus politics, the fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small.
Huh. It turns out you have to know something about ice cream, and something about business, in order to run an ice cream business. Who knew? The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power -Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was funny. Robert Caro wrote four books about Lyndon Johnson, which is another kind of joke entirely. Ford forced to cut profitable F-150 pickup truck production due to semiconductor chip shortage
Ahem. A pickup truck has one bench seat, a metal dashboard, three on the tree, and an AM radio. I have no idea what exactly an F 150 is anymore, but it ain't a pickup truck. Have a nice weekend, y'all. Or if you're Bird Dog, a nice weekend yawl.
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Friday, February 5. 2021Hey, It's Friday! I Think. I Really Can't RememberHey, remember normal American life? Me neither. China promotes education drive to make boys more 'manly' The Proposal to Prevent the Feminisation of Male Adolescents called on schools to fully reform their offerings on physical education and strengthen their recruitment of teachers. The text advised recruiting retired athletes and people from sporting backgrounds - and "vigorously developing" particular sports like football with a view to "cultivating students' masculinity". The American version is reminding the male students that they'll never be half the man their mother was. The pandemic is getting better all across the U.S.
Flu season in the US runs from October to February. It's February. You're welcome UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates
Well, after giving away money doesn't work, there's nothing left to do but pay you to take it. 23andMe set to go public via a Virgin Group SPAC merger
If you're unfamiliar with 23andMe, they're like Facebook, but instead of spying on your browsing habits, they rifle through your medical waste if you're dumb enough to send it to them. Blue Check Homes. Get a Verified Blue Badge on your home
What a glorious hoax. Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion
You can get it in any color you want, as long as it's... white? Found traces of antidepressants and painkillers in crustaceans on Svalbard
You know, I'd kinda noticed that my Svalbard mollusks seemed a tad taciturn recently. They've completely lost the urge to fetch sticks and dig in the garden, too. NY restaurant couple mistakenly served $2000 Mouton 1989 after ordering $18 Pinot
I remember this one time I was at a boring convention, but they had an open bar with a half-decent wine selection. I guess I sorta took advantage of the open bar thing. After my eighth trip across the auditorium to get another glass, a guy handed me a big trophy, a pretty girl kissed me, and the master of ceremonies announced over the public address system that I'd won the dance contest. Amazon plans to install always-on surveillance cameras in its delivery vehicles
Amazon should just install the driver's mother-in-law in a jump seat and get it over with. Corporations Listed In Fortune 500 More Likely To Commit Financial Fraud, Study Finds
I was walking down the sidewalk in New York once, when I noticed a stockbroker I'd met at a party recently coming towards me. "Hello," he lied. A GameStop Evangelist’s Videos Draw a Regulator’s Attention
This dude is in for an SEC enema with a Maxine Waters rubdown finish. He'll be used as a political football. If he's useful in their endless efforts to raise taxes, they'll call him a little guy and let him keep the vig. If he hurt the wrong hedgies, they'll stake him out on an anthill. But his real problem comes later. Some enterprising lawyer with a client who dumped their college money into GameStop and lost it all will sue him, and win. It's pit bull season, and he's wearing milk bone underwear.
Well, that's the links for today. Don't forget to shift your buttocks slightly on the couch at least once a day.
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Thursday, February 4. 2021You Have Meddled With Primal Forces of Nature, Mr. Reddit, and I Won't Have It!Ned Beatty explains how the world really works to a doe-eyed crank in Network. A wonderful parable for our times, and still spot on 45 years after it was made. The Wall Street Bets kids will be cozened into Janet Yellen's boardroom shortly, and get Citadel's version of this speech. Hedge funds emerge mostly unscathed from Reddit trader drama
I'll explain the GameStop/Reddit/Wall Street Bets frenzy in the simplest terms possible. They've all joined a joint-stock Amway. How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in a Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case
His company manages $73 billion in assets for public pension funds. Public pension funds are about to get maybe a third of a trillion or so in bailouts, masquerading as aid to state and local governments. He won't be eating ramen anytime soon. IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts
I guess IBM is being haunted by the ghost of Romettys past. You will be visited by three spirits. Listen to them, and do what they say, or your (block)chains will be heavier than mine. Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
Got that? "Researchers" say it wasn't slavery. It was "national service." Give them another couple years to research the topic, and they'll be able to explain it was just like playing Minecraft, only with real blocks. Loads of fun for the whole conscripted family! 'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
No sweat. Xi will just get some researchers to rename it "national service." Justice Department Drops Yale University Admissions Lawsuit
Pretty soon, we'll perfect bizarro world college admissions where the only way a white male can attend is to make the football team.
I've been accused of being a narcissist. But enough about me. What do you think about me? Chrome’s Cookie Update Is Bad for Advertisers But Good for Google
Cookies for me, but not for thee, says Google, and every toddler's mother. The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases
Flu season in India runs from October to February. It's February. You're welcome. Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster
People mistakenly believe that designing electric cars is an electric car problem. But electric cars are about as old as gasoline-powered designs. They didn't catch on because the batteries sucked, and gasoline rocked, and was damn near free. The batteries still suck, and only work on a boondoggle basis. Supercapacitors are the future of electric cars and solar storage.
Well, that's the links for this morning. I hope you found them enjoyable or informative or amusing. But remember: It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished. Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some two hundred odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings and as replaceable as piston rods. I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud? I meant to say, "Have a nice day!"
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Wednesday, February 3. 2021Unintended ConsequencesToday I stopped at Costco after working at the food bank. I had to buy some things, but most importantly I had to return the laundry detergent I'd purchased. Naturally, not being aware of anything besides price, I'd bought a brand I was familiar with, but for some reason was on sale at a rate considerably cheaper than Costco's house brand. Seems like a deal. Until Mrs. Bulldog said "No, return it." So today was return day. As I stood in line, I noticed the 3 people ahead of me having their returns rejected, which I thought was odd. I've returned a few things to Costco, and it's rarely a problem especially if you have a receipt or plan to use the credit immediately (as I intended to). When I got to the desk, I was told that Governor Murphy had passed a "Hoarding Law" which meant certain items couldn't be returned because they were deemed "essential" and the government had worried in March that hoarders would purchase large amounts to gouge prices. Laundry detergent is on the list. Now, I really have no problem with price gouging. It's part of the natural turn of events in certain crises and will usually help increase production (which eventually drives down prices) and services to the areas which are impacted by a crisis. I don't even have a problem with hoarding. I'm not likely to do either of these things, but if others want to, that's their gig, not mine. But now I'm stuck dealing with this detergent and the ire of Mrs. Bulldog, clearly an event our governor, who is obviously kindly and greatly more intelligent than everyone else in the New Jersey area, doesn't care about. Actually, I'm less concerned with the ire of Mrs. Bulldog and really was more concerned with the people I noticed who were distraught because they'd purchased things they didn't want/need and just wanted to return them. I should be clear that my Costco isn't exactly in a really wealthy part of my county. Lots of locals, many who probably have been very adversely affected by Covid, shop here. So seeing them getting upset at the counter didn't surprise me. But it's just an annoying example of how politicians insert themselves into everyday lives and make life difficult. Sure they "mean well" - but they rarely realize they are hurting the people they are trying to help more often than not.
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