2024-05-21
What Future Historians Say Will Shock You | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
This is hilarious. Some crude humor...
2024-05-17
Crush! | iPad Pro | Apple
Apple apologized for this recent ad because some took it to mean that technology is crushing old forms of creativity.
M4 iPad Pro Impressions: Well This is Awkward
The M4 iPad display has a 1000 NIT brightness that can go up to 1600 NITS.
Considering that my computer monitor is plenty bright at 350 NITS, this seems like overkill. It would be useful if you wanted to read the iPad in direct sunlight, but how many people need that feature? My iPhone 10R is rated at around 600 NITS and it is reportedly readable in direct sunlight.
Plus it has a processor more powerful than all but a few desktop computers. Overkill, which is why Apple wants to charge a thousand dollars for this thing.
The iPad is not a very useful device. It is more limited than a computer, and less convenient than a smartphone.
If I want a tablet I can get a lower-end iPad for around $300, and less on Black Friday. I bought a Fire Tablet on Black Friday for around $80, and even though it is not a very powerful tablet, it can do basic internet tasks, stream video, and play games.
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Joe Rogan : The SKI Problem in USA 😳
https://youtube.com/shorts/xwTgjvnNkxM?si=YdrvP_4ANPdVjV-u
I used to see someone every year with a cast and I would ask them what happened, and I always would get a one word answer, "Skiing."
I used to see someone every year with a cast and I would ask them what happened, and I always would get a one word answer, "Skiing."
Protests documents and weapons
Armed struggle is enshrined in law," showed one confiscated pamphlet. Another, "We are not satisfied with co-existence."
Going beyond extremist and violent rhetoric, weapons were discovered. Chains, steel cables and buckets of rocks were found and subsequently confiscated by authorities at UT Austin demonstrations last month.
More documents obtained by Fox News purportedly "celebrat[e] the death of innocent Jews and the elimination of Israel."
Of 79 arrested at UT Austin, 45 were not affiliated with the University. LaJeunesse reported that experts believe "extremist documents lure students in using their sympathy for Palestinians to introduce more extreme views."
At UCLA on Monday, campus police detained 40 anti-Israel protesters who had metal pipes, chains, epoxy padlocks and documents encouraging vandalism on their persons.
Flags representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are present at most college campus protests nationwide, which the DNI classifies as a "Syria-based terrorist group.
What CIVIL WAR Is Really About
Dictators arise because of a crisis causing the public to support stability over democracy.
2024-05-10
joe quid pro quo...congressman drafting impeachment articles
Mills, 43, submitted language to House counsel on Thursday for one article of impeachment that would charge Biden with "abuse of power," Mills revealed on X, noting that he would "pursue action [Friday] morning."
"Using the powers of his high office, President Biden solicited a 'quid pro quo' with the foreign government of Israel by withholding precision guided weapons shipments in order to try and extract military policy changes," reads Mills' resolution.
House GOP drafting Biden impeachment articles over Israel aid cutoff threat (nypost.com)
2024-05-09
Biden weapon pause kept quiet until Holocaust speech
Biden signed off on the pause in an order conveyed last week to the Pentagon, The Associated Press reported, citing U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment on the matter. But the NSC wanted to keep the decision quiet until...Biden delivered a long-planned speech on Tuesday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-decision-pull-israel-weapons-shipment-kept-quiet-holocaust-remembrance-address-report
Unscientific American | City Journal
Shermer submitted a column discussing ways that discrimination against racial minorities, gays, and other groups has diminished (while acknowledging the need for continued progress). Here, Shermer ran into the same wall that Better Angels of Our Nature author Steven Pinker and other scientific optimists have faced. For progressives, admitting that any problem—racism, pollution, poverty—has improved means surrendering the rhetorical high ground. "They are committed to the idea that there is no cumulative progress," Shermer says, and they angrily resist efforts to track the true prevalence, or the "base rate," of a problem. Saying that "everything is wonderful and everyone should stop whining doesn't really work," his editor objected.
Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and The Coddling of the American Mind authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all. Shermer wrote that intersectional theory, which lumps individuals into aggregate identity groups based on race, sex, and other immutable characteristics, "is a perverse inversion" of Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. For Shermer's editors, apparently, this was the last straw. The column was killed and Shermer's contract terminated.
Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and The Coddling of the American Mind authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all. Shermer wrote that intersectional theory, which lumps individuals into aggregate identity groups based on race, sex, and other immutable characteristics, "is a perverse inversion" of Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. For Shermer's editors, apparently, this was the last straw. The column was killed and Shermer's contract terminated.
Neocons Almost Killed America. Here’s How Patriots Can Fix It
'In the course of losing WWII Germany lost 5.3 of 17.7 million men aged 15-44 years old, or 30% of their male population. This brutality is the reality of winning wars – as the recent US track record of failure shows. The "measured and proportional response" crowd wants a war without war. It's a fantasy that only seems plausible to people who have never experienced war and are insulated from its consequences.'
"Taiwan, and China's claim on it, remains the flashpoint in the ultimate cold war in the final stages of warming. Clever deterrence measures have been offered and rejected. The Pentagon wants to fight by our playbook, but as always in war, the enemy gets a vote. A hot war between China and the USA would see US cities annihilated and a death toll in the tens of millions, at minimum. This apocalyptic carnage can only be averted by looking back through history at what has worked and what hasn't worked in the conveyor belt of failed Washington foreign policy approaches that have dominated the last thirty years. We owe it to our children to get this right but course changes must be made immediately before it is too late."
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/02/neocons-almost-killed-america-how-patriots-can-fix-it/
"Taiwan, and China's claim on it, remains the flashpoint in the ultimate cold war in the final stages of warming. Clever deterrence measures have been offered and rejected. The Pentagon wants to fight by our playbook, but as always in war, the enemy gets a vote. A hot war between China and the USA would see US cities annihilated and a death toll in the tens of millions, at minimum. This apocalyptic carnage can only be averted by looking back through history at what has worked and what hasn't worked in the conveyor belt of failed Washington foreign policy approaches that have dominated the last thirty years. We owe it to our children to get this right but course changes must be made immediately before it is too late."
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/02/neocons-almost-killed-america-how-patriots-can-fix-it/
Transgenderism and Star Wars
Just watched the fifth episode of the six-episode miniseries, "Tales of the Empire." I was enjoying the animated show until the characters repeatedly referred to a character with "They" and "Them" pronouns.
A Google search shows multiple sources claiming that this is good grammar. I disagree. Even if it is acceptable grammar, it promotes a lie that people are something other than their biological sex.
Although Doctor Who, Star Trek Discovery, and The Orville all recently hit us over the head with their trans characters, I think that it is sacrilege for Star Wars to do it. Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy, far, far away. Transgenderism is a 20th and 21st-century fad, mostly in Western culture. I think that this hysteria will fade over time. Reality wins in the end, even if it takes a very long time.
If someone wants to call themselves a different name, it is a free country.
My fear is the expectation that you must give lip service to it through coerced speech. Jordan Peterson initially rose to fame by objecting to speech codes requiring mandatory pronoun usage. In Canada, he is being denied his license to practice psychotherapy because of it. The actress Gina Carano had her entire career destroyed because she refused to comply, which led to a several-month-long Internet campaign to get her fired. When we see other people having their rights trampled on, this creates a fear that this can happen to us, and a backlash against it.
I will still enjoy the series. However, I watch shows for escapist entertainment. When a show tries to push an agenda that is at the very least controversial, it is distracting to the viewers.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
We Weren't Supposed to Find This
The tornado at 100 seconds is interesting.
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Easy Company Veteran on combat from D-Day to the Eagle's Nest | Ed Shames
Colonel Edward "Ed" Shames was the last surviving officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. A unit that would be made famous by the miniseries Band of Brothers.
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Teflon = Cancer
I don't have a strong opinion about this. Have you heard anything?
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Trump's Virtues Part II - TomKlingenstein.com
"The Woke radicals tell the Trump voters they are a threat to democracy. Think about that. They're saying, "You Trumpsters are a threat to democracy." The woke radicals also tell us ad nauseam that America is systemically racist. Trump knows this is deadly nonsense, and he says so. This charge of systemic racism bounces off Trump because he has no white guilt or any guilt for that matter. Trump tells his supporters what they already know: They are not racist and they do not have white privilege. The woke radicals shut up those who disagree. Trump will not be shut up. If they manage to put him in jail, he will still roar like a lion. "
2024-04-10
Shatner
I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn't see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
~ William Shatner
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How to Make a Million Dollars
Ben Shapiro is an exceptionally talented person. I would be happy with just a job I like.
2024-04-05
Satisfying Greek alphabet fact. How did I not know??
Okay, this is interesting.
Fwd: Even Trudeau in Canada changing tune on immigration
Trudeau said temporary immigrants now make up 7.5% of the population, up from 2% in 2017, adding that they need to get the numbers "back under control."
"We want to get those numbers down," he said. "It's a responsible approach to immigration that continues on our permanent residents, as we have, but also hold the line a little more on the temporary immigration that has caused so much pressure in our communities."
The influx of immigrants into Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a dire crunch in several areas and has also led to increased rent prices and a strain on the health care system.
"One of the reasons why we got here in the first place was that (provincial and federal) governments just didn't want to touch this issue out of a fear of looking xenophobic," Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Place Centre, told Reuters in February.
The publication said Canadian citizens supported immigration at a historically high level in 2020, which has since fallen to a three-
Trudeau's shift toward current public opinion on immigration also comes after his challenger, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, has taken a big lead in many opinion polls in the country.
$30 million cash burglery
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department are investigating one of the largest cash heists in the city's history after as much as $30 million was stolen from a San Fernando Valley money storage facility, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation told CNN Thursday.
The burglary happened on the night of Easter Sunday at an unnamed facility in Sylmar, a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored, the source said.
How World War II Began
If, like me, you are interested in history, this video is a very good description of all the events that led up to World War II.
I was glad to see this because I have seen several videos from "Zoomer historian" who is a bit of a Hitler apologist. He claims that World War II started when England and France declared war on Germany, but history claims that it was when Hitler invaded Poland. France and England had promised to help protect Poland, so after Germany invaded, they gave Germany an ultimatum to withdraw which Hitler ignored.
"Zoomer historian" also claims that Churchhill was a warmonger, that Hitler didn't want war with England or the Soviet Union, and that Hitler made multiple peace offerings to England after he invaded Poland which the British ignored.
The history is complicated. There is a big difference between what Hitler said publically and what he said privately.
Germany might have had a historic claim to Austria, which was ethically mostly German. Austria didn't offer much resistance and the Austrian people cheered Hitler's invasion. Had Hitler stopped with Austria he might have become a historical footnote.
However, Germany then invaded Czechoslovakia. Hitler claimed that he only wanted a small part to protect ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia, but he took the whole country anyway.
Had Hitler stopped there he could still have had peace. Some countries, like the old Soviet Union or China, are smart in how they do this; they will invade one country and then wait decades for things to settle down to invade the next.
As "Zoomer historian" points out, Hitler claimed that he only wanted a tiny part of Poland that was ethnically German. However, once again he took the entire country and World War II began.
The Biggest Conspiracy Theory Of All
I heard this on the radio. I'm very impressed.
Hitler used conspiracy theories to gain power.
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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
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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
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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.
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Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XSG2Dw2mL8
It is absurd. The political left deliberately promotes falsehoods and then cry bloody murder when people object to their nonsense.
This is a straw man argument.
The IPCC has shown its bias by refusing to hire anyone who does not already believe in catastrophic man-made warming. This is not how you do science, by starting with the conclusion. Real science is done by looking at the data and seeing where that takes you.
The IPCC has tried to suppress papers by skeptics and even got a skeptic fired from a university.
One person who resigned from the IPCC said that it wasn't so much about protecting the Climate as it was about doing away with free-market capitalism. Other people have resigned from the IPCC in protest claiming that they were too biased.
Everywhere I look I see articles claiming that the only solution to Climate Change is socialism. At least for some, this is the real agenda.
It is questionable to claim that everything is rigidly peer-reviewed when the universities have been taken over by the extreme left.
Almost everyone believes that the average atmosphere temperature has increased, by a small amount, and that humans are the cause. There are some minor disagreements over the details, but there is widespread agreement on the basics. However, future predictions of gloom and doom are very debatable and scientifically disprovable. The CO2 level is already at 90% of its potential to block infrared radiation. Climate Alarmism depends upon as-of-yet unproven positive feedback mechanisms. If there were some evidence for this I would be on board, but there is a long list of past predictions that have not come true.
The solutions involve making energy expensive for everyone and denying energy to developing countries.