2024-03-28
Mental toughness of Donald Trump | Dana White and Lex Fridman
I get the impression that Donald Trump's toughness might come from his desire to be the center of attention.
A way to store more data in less space
Angry about Trump vs. Biden? Blame Garland, Bragg and Cannon | The Hill
According to the Brian Kilmeade show, President Biden expressed frustration with Merrick Garland because Trump isn't convicted already.
"But it should not be this way. Donald Trump could have been knocked out of the race a long time ago, if not for the political incompetence, venality, and ignorance of Merrick Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Aileen Cannon. If these three stooges of jurisprudence had acted competently and ethically, Trump would be out and Biden with him. "
2024-03-24
Whistle-blower says CIA blocked hunter lender from testifying
A whistleblower claimed that the CIA "stonewalled" an IRS interview with Hunter Biden's business associate Kevin Morris, the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees said. | Fox News
2024-03-22
2024-03-19
The only bloodbath in America right now is the bowels of liberal hypocrisy splattered all over social media
And I genuinely hoped liberal media and politicians had learned their lesson from the Trump presidency and would deal with him differently this time around now that he's won the GOP presidential nomination again.
As comedian Chris Rock told me, the day after Trump's win in 2016, when I asked him why he thought the real estate tycoon had triumphed: "If someone's murdered eight people, don't go around saying they've murdered nine."
In other words, judge Trump accurately and fairly, or deploy absurdly disingenuous exaggeration and surrender the high moral ground.
Regretfully, they haven't.
Speaking in Ohio on Saturday, Trump said if he's re-elected president, he intends to slap a 100% tariff on Chinese cars being manufactured in Mexico and imported into the US.
And he warned: "Now if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole, that's gonna be the least of it, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that'll be the least of it."
I watched the whole extended clip several times so I could assess what Trump meant, and there's absolutely no doubt that he was referring to a bloodbath in America's auto industry.
That was the context of his comment, not anyone being killed.
And the media, and his political opponents, knew it.
But that didn't stop them from instantly pretending he'd meant there would be an actual violent bloodbath of people if he wasn't re-elected.
The Biden-Harris campaign issued a statement, branding Trump a "loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience, doubles down on his threats of political violence. He wants another January 6
As comedian Chris Rock told me, the day after Trump's win in 2016, when I asked him why he thought the real estate tycoon had triumphed: "If someone's murdered eight people, don't go around saying they've murdered nine."
In other words, judge Trump accurately and fairly, or deploy absurdly disingenuous exaggeration and surrender the high moral ground.
Regretfully, they haven't.
Speaking in Ohio on Saturday, Trump said if he's re-elected president, he intends to slap a 100% tariff on Chinese cars being manufactured in Mexico and imported into the US.
And he warned: "Now if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole, that's gonna be the least of it, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that'll be the least of it."
I watched the whole extended clip several times so I could assess what Trump meant, and there's absolutely no doubt that he was referring to a bloodbath in America's auto industry.
That was the context of his comment, not anyone being killed.
And the media, and his political opponents, knew it.
But that didn't stop them from instantly pretending he'd meant there would be an actual violent bloodbath of people if he wasn't re-elected.
The Biden-Harris campaign issued a statement, branding Trump a "loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience, doubles down on his threats of political violence. He wants another January 6
2024-03-17
2024-03-16
Dawn Wells
Tina Louise is the only surviving cast member of Gilligan's Island. Louise, who plays Ginger Grant, turned 90 in February 2024.
Dawn Wells (pictured) died from COVID-19 in December 2020 at age 82.
Dawn Wells (pictured) died from COVID-19 in December 2020 at age 82.
2024-03-15
Are tomatoes a fruit or vegetable?
As if life wasn't complicated enough.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nLfCP4pgxsY?si=NwjmNxJnYhzT3fR8
https://youtube.com/shorts/nLfCP4pgxsY?si=NwjmNxJnYhzT3fR8
Your Internet is Too Fast
It was costing me around $90 a month for gigabit Internet service. So I downgraded to 200 Mbit, for about $35 per month, and it is plenty fast for me.
2024-03-13
How NASA Overcame the Challenge of Opening the Asteroid Sample
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RnhSs55fik4
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Apophis is a demon serpent and the enemy of the sun god Ra.
DEI killed the CHIPS Act
Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven't noticed is that it's because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can't move.
The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation, and several prioritizing scientific cooperation with what it calls "minority-serving institutions." A section called "Opportunity and Inclusion" instructs the Department of Commerce to work with minority-owned businesses and make sure chipmakers "increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce."
The department interprets that as license to diversify. Its factsheet asserts that diversity is "critical to strengthening the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem," adding, "Critically, this must include significant investments to create opportunities for Americans from historically underserved communities."
The department does not call speed critical, even though the impetus for the CHIPS Act is that 90 percent of the world's advanced microchips are made in Taiwan, which China is preparing to annex by 2027, maybe even 2025.
Handouts abound. There's plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as "justice-involved individuals," more commonly known as ex-cons. There's plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. There's even plenty for the planet: Arizona Democrats just bragged they've won $15 million in CHIPS funding for an ASU project fighting climate change.
That project is going better for Arizona than the actual chips part of the CHIPS Act. Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity's most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as TSMC discovered to its dismay.
Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren't skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation, and several prioritizing scientific cooperation with what it calls "minority-serving institutions." A section called "Opportunity and Inclusion" instructs the Department of Commerce to work with minority-owned businesses and make sure chipmakers "increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce."
The department interprets that as license to diversify. Its factsheet asserts that diversity is "critical to strengthening the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem," adding, "Critically, this must include significant investments to create opportunities for Americans from historically underserved communities."
The department does not call speed critical, even though the impetus for the CHIPS Act is that 90 percent of the world's advanced microchips are made in Taiwan, which China is preparing to annex by 2027, maybe even 2025.
Handouts abound. There's plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as "justice-involved individuals," more commonly known as ex-cons. There's plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. There's even plenty for the planet: Arizona Democrats just bragged they've won $15 million in CHIPS funding for an ASU project fighting climate change.
That project is going better for Arizona than the actual chips part of the CHIPS Act. Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity's most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as TSMC discovered to its dismay.
Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren't skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
2024-03-10
Nixon's Most Effective Speech
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5_XEN8TXcn0
If you could go back in time and listen to this speech, would you conclude that sacrificing American lives in a faraway land was in the best interest of the United States?
This Is Easily the Most Important Speech Jordan Peterson Has Ever Done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTS57hkAUk&t=65s
I differ from Peterson in that we cannot reliably assume the supernatural. There are many different opinions on what the divine means, so we cannot reliably assume that a higher power has expectations of us.
We live in a society where we think that people should be good, but not all cultures share this view, or they disagree on what good means. However, we think that societies work better when people aren't cruel, cooperate with each other, and show compassion.
I don't think that humans should necessarily be sacrificial animals for others. Taken to the extreme, the individual becomes a slave to power structures. However, voluntarily caring for others seems to make us better and stronger people.The best speech I have heard Jordan Peterson give is this one...
He speaks at such a high level, it forces me to pay close attention to keep up.
2024-03-09
RFK Jr.: How I See The State Of Our Union
He is not wrong about the decline of the United States, but he doesn't make clear what kind of government he stands for. It seems likely that he is a big government politician.
2024-03-08
Stephen Hicks: How Failed Marxist Predictions Led to the Postmodern Left
This is a lengthy video. It makes the point that the early Marxists believed that their theories were scientific and that they could predict the future.
However, when all the Marxist predictions failed to come true, and following the revelations about cruelty and death in the Soviet Union, the Marxists went back to the drawing board. They concluded that facts don't matter. They concluded that results don't matter. They decided that only political victory mattered.
This conclusion seems like Cognitive Dissonance. Why wouldn't results matter? They must think that a free market is so unfair and so unjust that it would be better to adopt a worse system in the name of fairness. Marxists don't want you to do better, because you won't under their policies. They want to punish the wealthy.
One Marxist told me that it is all about who is in charge; they want the people to be in charge. Funny, I thought that this is the political system that we live in. The reality is that Marxist governments only exist through force and without exception turn into tyrannical dictatorships. So much for the people being in charge.
Marxists want group ownership of the means of production. We sort of have that now. My retirement fund is invested in hundreds of companies, and so is yours.
If people were perfectly happy, they would not need politics. However, people are never happy. It is the nature of human beings to be unhappy about something. People want the government to fix their miserable lives, but the government can't really do that. We will never have enough money, and if we try to adopt exorbitant taxes then we will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Politicians will promise people the moon, but they can't deliver and never do.
2024-03-07
Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson Reveal the WEF's Dark Agenda
Population growth can be a legitimate issue. We see that in overcrowded cities everywhere. We see conflicts arising right now out of overcrowded countries.
However, these problems aren't beyond fixing.
The Tide of Science (Climate Change)
This does not rule out positive feedback from water vapor. As I have mentioned, there is widespread disagreement on the feedback from clouds. The alarmists think that the feedback is positive, and the skeptics think that the feedback is negative. Even if the feedback is positive, we don't know to what extent. To get a runaway greenhouse we would need a feedback of 1 or greater. That would be a disaster. However, the figures I have seen have been around 0.6, which means that for every extra degree of warming, you get another partial degree of positive feedback.
I agree with the skeptics on this. Warming produces clouds. Clouds reflect sunlight back into space and make the Earth cooler.
Meteor Strike
I already saw the video. April 13th, 2029 will be pretty interesting. I would like to get some binoculars and watch the asteroid go by.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 12:46 AM Albert wrote:
While we worry about high prices, illegal immigrants, the high price of KFC, there's one more thing to worry about. See the video below for details. lol
A Leader's Most Important Asset
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v5ASGK7YnJI
For whatever reason, many Nixon videos have appeared on YouTube lately. What I find interesting is that he conveys authority better than any of his successors. People looked at Nixon as a kind of father figure. He ran on a platform of law and order, which people wanted given the chaos of the country. He was the right politician for his time.
2024-03-03
President Trump Just Broke the Internet With This New Ad
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The video feels like a parody. The part at 2:22 is reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally.
What matters are the policies Trump wants to implement. We get very little information other than other side bad vote for me.
2024-03-02
We're all confused about Red Meat. Here's Why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ56uOkjccg
I knew a preacher who dismissed all of science because it always uses qualified statements like, "The evidence would suggest that ...". This is because science is rarely settled, Science is subject to change as new information becomes available. So the preacher thought that science doesn't really know anything.
I look at science in terms of probability. Trans fats are associated with a higher risk of heart disease. It doesn't mean that it is the same for everyone or that it is proven, although the evidence is strong enough that we could look at this as a fact.
People can't know everything, so as a rule people just take the best information available to them.