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2024-04-19

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  • Saving the world and “passion” is bullshit | Locklin on science

    There was no business case for “Better Place.” There was no physical or economic need for this complex and ridiculous scheme. This wouldn’t have helped the environment at all: it is impossible for this hare-brained scheme to do so for simple thermodynamics reasons. But it was something that caught the imagination of people who wanted to make the world a better place. You could have made the world a better place working at SpaceX or even Google. If you like electric cars, Tesla made numerous real breakthroughs, and was relentless about making money (IMO their cars suck). You could also have made the world a better place by piling up giant heaps of money and donating it to worthy causes. Or if you’re incapable of this, you could volunteer at the soup kitchen, or help bums kick their drug habits: that is actually helping, rather than nerd fantasies about saving the planet like Mr. Spock. Nebulous pieties and bullshit do not make the world a better place. Get your nebulous pieties from religion like a normal human being; your personal vision of “making the world a better place” is almost certainly false because you’re a dumb monkey more susceptible to mass media programming with obvious falsehoods than in any other era of human history.

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Horseshit

Boeing

Electric / Self Driving cars

Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

  • Trump Media shares fall, Truth Social will launch TV platform

  • Opinion | Donald Trump and American Justice - The New York Times

    In the weeks leading up to the start of this trial, Mr. Trump has argued, dishonestly, that the judge and the prosecutor have treated him unfairly, and that it will be impossible for him to get a fair trial in Manhattan because New Yorkers are biased against him. But the opening days of the trial, devoted to jury selection, have already demonstrated the great care and respect with which everyone involved in the trial, except for Mr. Trump, has treated the process. Joshua Steinglass, a member of the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told potential jurors on Tuesday that the case “has nothing to do with personal politics.”

    If anything, Justice Merchan has exhibited an extra degree of tolerance for Mr. Trump’s strategy of systematically attacking the legitimacy of the courts and court officials through repeated verbal outbursts and countless legal motions and other attempts to delay his trials.

    The fact that he was able to have each of these motions fully considered is evidence of the justice system operating as it should, with deliberation and due process. Especially in criminal prosecutions, courts take the legal rights of litigants very seriously, to ensure that defendants receive fair trials. An appeals court is still considering Mr. Trump’s request to throw out a gag order that prevents him from verbally attacking witnesses, prosecutors or the judge’s family, but it will not delay the trial before the ruling. (Mr. Trump is not prevented from publicly criticizing the judge.) In the other criminal cases against him, Mr. Trump has also been able to take full advantage of every legal protection available to him as a defendant.

    While a Manhattan jury weighs the evidence of Mr. Trump’s alleged crimes, it’s the American people who will weigh the evidence of Mr. Trump’s actions. His party has allowed him to act with impunity, but Americans voters still have the power to deliver accountability. They should consider not only the facts presented during the trial — the details about his judgment, his character and the way he conducted his life and his business — but also his disregard for the rule of law and his willingness to demean American justice when it suits his interests. Those actions render him manifestly unfit for office and would pose unique dangers to the United States during a second term. The greatest of those dangers, and the one that Americans should be most attuned to, is the damage that a second Trump presidency would inflict on the rule of law.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

  • W.H.O. Broadens Definition of Airborne Diseases - The New York Times

    In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a team of scientists called on the World Health Organization to acknowledge that the disease could spread through the air. Initially, the agency rebuffed them, despite growing evidence that coronavirus-laden droplets stuck around in the air, making indoor spaces hotbeds of infection. The researchers responded with a public campaign, which helped persuade the World Health Organization to finally acknowledge, in late 2021, that Covid was airborne.

    The new report divides transmission routes into ones that involve contact, and others that involve the air. The group agreed to call the second route “through the air transmission.” Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer at Virginia Tech and a member of the advisory group, found that phrase more awkward than a simpler term like airborne transmission. “I find it very clunky,” she said. “But we were looking for the lowest common denominator terminology that everyone could live with.”

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Dissent is not hatred

    By playing a victimhood card he had no good reason to play, Neeves deliberately obscured the point. He pretended that Rowling was just spewing out hatred, whereas in fact she was merely disagreeing, asserting a reasonable belief, and making a bold protest in the cause of free speech.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

  • Biden suggests uncle eaten by ‘cannibals’ in New Guinea — but military says his WWII plane lost at sea.

    Biden told the story while attacking former President Donald Trump for allegedly skipping a 2018 visit to a military cemetery outside of Paris during his term of office after calling fallen US troops buried there “suckers” and “losers.” “Suckers and losers? The man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief of my son,” Biden said in Pittsburgh, after saying in Scranton that Trump “refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris.” The disputed account was featured in an article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that said Trump “blamed rain for the last-minute decision [not to visit the cemetery], saying that ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.”

    Documentation emerged in 2020 debunking Goldberg’s account by showing that the Navy made a bad-weather call that prevented the cemetery trip from being made by helicopter.

  • Impeachment ‘Whistleblower’ Was in the Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed | RealClearInvestigations

    The emails show Ciaramella expressed shock – “Yikes” is what he wrote – at Biden’s move to withhold the $1 billion in aid from Kyiv, which represented a sudden shift in U.S. policy. They also show he was drawn into White House communications over how to control adverse publicity from Hunter taking a lucrative seat on Burisma’s board. Yet there is no evidence Ciaramella raised alarms about the questionable Biden business activities he witnessed firsthand, which is in sharp contrast to 2019. In that instance, he was galvanized into action after being told by White House colleague Alexander Vindman of an “improper” phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump solicited Zelensky’s help in investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden’s role in the company.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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