2024-07-26
Why Humans Are Vanishing
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The falling birth rate is an economic issue. If the population drops, the incentives will change, either naturally or by fiat.
2024-07-24
2024-07-23
What's Life Like Inside A Japanese Prison? | Witness | HD Japan Jail Crime Documentary
Japan appears to be a highly regulated society.
2024-07-21
Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024 Election Map Projection
@john2001plus
0 seconds agoI don't believe that Harris would lose the entire Rust Belt.
If HYPOTHETICALLY, the entire Rust Belt, VA, and NH went to Harris, we would have a 269-269 tie.
Not likely to happen.
2024-07-20
2024-07-19
New Rule: MAGA's Magical Thinking | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
I'm sure this will offend somebody, but I present it as humor. The part at 8:01 made me laugh out loud.
What World are We Living in?
@john2001plus
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I think that it is likely that the assassin was a leftist. If not, he was at least someone who hated Donald Trump.
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I think that it is likely that the assassin was a leftist. If not, he was at least someone who hated Donald Trump.
Trump Triumphs, Biden Leaves THIS WEEKEND?!
The first 25 minutes of Trump's RNC speech was very moving and I recommend watching it.
The problem is that Trump spoke for over another hour and the speech was too long and a bit boring. He missed an opportunity to give a great speech.
2024-07-18
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2024-07-16
The DARK Truth about BEARS
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-RiM8f6az0
The problem with bears is that everything looks like food to them.
I suspect that they struggle to find enough to eat.
There was a bear spotted crossing from Kentucky to Indiana. It swam across the Ohio River. It may have been in or near the Hoosier National Forest. It was thought to be near Salem, Indiana, where I was born. It was later spotted in the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, which is some distance northeast and next to a farm that my stepdad used to share ownership of. I've been to this farm and to the edge of the refuge which is sealed off from the public.
Bears are rare in Indiana, but this one traveled maybe a hundred miles across many roads and a couple of Interstates. Why would it do this unless it needed to find food? It may have been to these places before and knew where to forage for food.
What Do Japanese Think of the Trump Assassination? (Street Interview)
I find it interesting that people from Japan have this much interest in American politics. Had this been filmed in the United States, the responses would have been the same.
2024-07-15
2024-07-14
Location of Trump Rally and Attempted Assassination on Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8568486,-79.9715945,631m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Location on Google Maps of Trump Rally and Attempted Assassination
This takes place in a farm show area near the southwest edge of Butler Pennsylvania. Trump was standing in front of three buildings center map, and the shots came from a building directly north.
Roughly the view the shooter had of Donald Trump
Roughly the view the shooter had of Donald Trump as he spoke in front of the farm buildings.
Would-be Trump assassin had explosives in car parked near rally
In Crooks' house, law enforcement found bomb-making materials, the sources told Fox News.
2024-07-13
2024-07-12
This Delicious Food Regenerates Stem Cells For Longevity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVNY4Ttx5Ug&t=628s
I eat 90% dark chocolate because it only has 1 gram of sugar per piece. I eat 3 to 4 pieces daily, usually for breakfast because dark chocolate contains stimulants.
I have tried 100% which is bitter but I flavored it with sucralose which works.
2024-07-11
2024-07-10
Shipping Containers: The Box that Changed the World
It was inevitable that someone would invent something like this.
2024-07-09
Hackers Now Have Access to 10 Billion Stolen Passwords
https://lifehacker.com/tech/hackers-have-10-billion-stolen-passwords
It might be a good idea to change all your passwords. I have so many it will take a while.
2024-07-08
We don't even make adults until they hit 40
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RXXwcVix4Qs
Ben Franklin, technically a polymath, is my favorite historical figure, partly because he was an avid chess player, but I read his autobiography when I was in high school.
2024-07-07
2024-07-06
2024 Election Map Based On the Latest Poll
Based on this election map, Trump would have to lose Minnesota, which maybe he will, plus Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, plus one more state like New Jersey for Biden to win. These states are close enough to give Biden a small chance.
2024-07-05
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2024-07-03
Fwd: The world's and Nation's Debt
From: Larry
Governments owe an unprecedented $91 trillion, an amount almost equal to the size of the global economy and one that will ultimately exact a heavy toll on their populations.
Debt burdens have grown so large — in part because of the cost of the pandemic — that they now pose a growing threat to living standards even in rich economies, including the United States.
Yet, in a year of elections around the world, politicians are largely ignoring the problem, unwilling to level with voters about the tax increases and spending cuts needed to tackle the deluge of borrowing. In some cases, they're even making profligate promises that could at the very least jack up inflation again and could even trigger a new financial crisis.
The International Monetary Fund last week reiterated its warning that "chronic fiscal deficits" in the US must be "urgently addressed." Investors have long shared that disquiet about the long-term trajectory of the US government's finances.
Debt is "not free anymore," he told CNN.
"In the 2010s, a lot of academics, policymakers and central bankers came to the view that interest rates were just going to be near zero forever and then they started thinking debt was a free lunch," he said.
"That was always wrong-headed because you can think of government debt as holding a flexible-rate mortgage and, if the interest rates go up sharply, your interest payments go up a lot. And that's exactly what's happened all over the world."
'Conspiracy of silence'
In the United States, the federal government will spend $892 billion in the current fiscal year on interest payments — more than it has earmarked for defense and approaching the budget for Medicare, health insurance for older people and those with disabilities.
Next year, interest payments will top $1 trillion on national debt of more than $30 trillion, itself a sum roughly equal to the size of the US economy, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Congress's fiscal watchdog.
The CBO sees US debt reaching 122% of GDP a mere 10 years from now. And in 2054, debt is forecast to hit 166% of GDP, slowing economic growth.
So how much debt is too much? Economists don't think there is a "predetermined level at which bad things happen in markets," but most reckon that if debt hits 150% or 180% of gross domestic product, that means "very serious costs for the economy and society more broadly," said Dynan.
The world is sitting on a $91 trillion problem. 'Hard choices' are coming | CNN Business
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Tax revenue is a record at about 4.5 trillion the federal budget in 2019 was 4.6, it is now about 6.3. If we had the same spending as 2019 we'd have a balanced budget. We have a spending g problem
2024-07-02
PANIC! Will Democrats REPLACE Biden?
I listened to this on the radio last night. He makes good points here.
It appears that the Biden camp has doubled down. Since he can't possibly finish his next term, the responsible thing is for him to suspend his campaign for president.
2024-07-01
Re: Why France is voting against immigration...France fires and vandalism after Sunday vote
I've always have been concerned about population pressure. Of course culture and war matter, but increasing population leads to migration.
The evidence suggests that when the drought ended in Africa 50,000 years ago, humans expanded their range by about a mile per year. Within a couple of thousand years they made it to Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Humans are like gasses. They expand to fill the container they are put in.
On Jul 1, 2024, at 7:57 PM, Larry wrote:
Best wishes,
John Coffey
On Jul 1, 2024, at 7:57 PM, Larry wrote:
2024-06-30
2024-06-29
Supreme court overturns previous judicial homeless madness
The Supreme Court loosened the restraints on city officials confronting homeless encampments, overturning a lower court that found it unconstitutional to penalize people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to stay.
Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments, which a lower court invoked to strike down the city's ordinance, had no role to play in limiting government responses to homelessness.
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2024-06-19
Why This Tiny Jellyfish Is Much Worse Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jw6bS-WL4F4 target="_blank"
If this creature is so bad, the world would be better off if we eliminated it.
There are many dangerous creatures, some of which kill a significant number of people. We can't eliminate all of them, but this particular jellyfish doesn't serve a purpose.
It has been advocated that we get rid of mosquitoes. I agree with this. They kill more people than any other animal. If they are killing people, then they are killing animals too.
2024-06-18
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2024-06-15
What REALLY Happens Inside Mainland China?
This is long, it is insightful on how oppressive the Chinese Communist Party can be.
Some Reasons why People Suck
@john2001plus
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Hank,
The data shows the temperature has taken 140 years to go up 1 degree Celsius. This is relative to a dangerous and deadly cold period in the 1880's. This slow rate of change shows that there is no climate emergency. The current rate of change is at most 0.2 degrees per decade.
We will be running out of most fossil fuels by the year 2100. Coal will be the last fossil fuel to go. At the current level of usage, we only have 40 years of oil reserves remaining.
CO2 is a valuable resource. It keeps the earth from freezing and it is plant food. There is a greening of the earth because of it.
The CO2 level over the last 40 million years has been in a nose dive. This is because calcifying marine organisms sequester CO2 (indirectly). The CO2 level got so low during the last period of mass glaciation that it reached 180 parts per million. This is just barely above the 150 parts per million where all the terrestrial plants die.
A funny thing happens to the climate roughly every 100,000 years. The data shows that the temperature will quickly shoot up 8 to 15 degrees, level off for 10,000 years, and then go back down almost as quickly. Then we get 85 to 90 thousand years of mass glaciation where New York is covered by ice.
We should already be in the cool-down cycle of the interglacial. The only thing that has prevented the planet from cooling is those pesky humans who added 150 parts per million CO2 into the atmosphere. The infrared absorption range of CO2 is much narrower than other gasses like water vapor, and it has already reached 90% of its absorption capacity.
Climate alarmism is dependent on as-of-yet unproven positive feedback models. There are many feedbacks, some of which are negative. There is much controversy over clouds, where common sense would indicate negative feedback to temperature, but the IPCC says the opposite.
True science looks at data and then comes to a conclusion. The IPCC does the opposite. They start with a conclusion and then support that with evidence. The IPCC refused to hire anyone who did not already believe in catastrophic man-made warming. This shows their bias. The IPCC actively suppressed skeptical papers and tried to get skeptical scientists fired. The head of U.N., António Guterres, was a Socialist Party politician in Portugal, and he routinely makes outrageous statements about the climate that are completely inaccurate.
Socialism is not palatable to the American people, so the socialists have been pushing false crises to divide and conquer and to give us more government control in incremental steps. I'm sorry that you have been duped by this mass hysteria.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
AXE Peace | Call to Arms (Official Extended Cut)
I thought that this was the greatest commercial ever! This is the extended cut.
2024-06-14
2024-06-12
Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)
This has useful information.
2024-06-11
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2024-06-06
Conservatives Must Improve Their Ground Game To Win Big In 2024
He assumes that the Democrats cheated in 2020. I wish that we had better evidence. There were so many irregularities that it seems likely some cheating took place. I don't think it changed the result, although Dinesh Desouza pointed out there was enough illegal ballot harvesting in the swing states to sway the election.
The left argues that the Republicans lost all their lawsuits over the election. This is not true. About 80% of the cases were dismissed over jurisdiction before going to trial. In the cases that went to trial, the Republicans won most of them. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania violated its election laws.
2024-06-05
2024-06-04
Matt Walsh Attacks Voting Rights
Everyone needs to be able to vote so that nobody feels disenfranchised. Voting is a substitute for war to be able to make political change.
This is a bad look for Republicans. This take is political suicide. I'm sure that the left will immediately run with this, and claim that the Republicans want to take away your vote.
2024-06-03
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2024-05-31
Telomir Pharmaceuticals Announces Two Pivotal Milestones for Lead Product Candidate Telomir-1
Telomir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: TELO) ("Telomir" or the "Company"), a pre-clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of Telomir-1 as the first novel small molecule to lengthen the DNA's protective telomere caps as a potential treatment for age-related conditions, today announced the commencement of several significant milestones. These events underscore its commitment to advancing innovative treatments to mitigate the effects of aging and the continuation of its groundbreaking work.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9145781/telomir-pharmaceuticals-announces-two-pivotal-milestones-for-lead-product-candidate-telomir-1
https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9145781/telomir-pharmaceuticals-announces-two-pivotal-milestones-for-lead-product-candidate-telomir-1
1.2 trillion cost of regulations added in months...1.6 trillion total
The Biden administration has set in motion a wave of new regulations that have already cost the U.S. more than $1 trillion, which equates to thousands of dollars per family, according to a new report from the Job Creators Network.
There have been $1.6 trillion in costs imposed from a total of 923 new federal regulations that have been finalized under President Joe Biden, with $1.2 trillion of those being put in place in just the past few months, according to the JCN. In just the first two years of the Biden administration, new regulations are estimated to have led to an average of almost $10,000 in added future and present costs to American households, which could jump to $60,000 if the trend continues across a two-term presidency.
2024-05-30
Biden used pseudo name to send thousands of sensitive emails over private email
While he was vice president, Joe Biden received sensitive communications via his private email accounts created under a fictitious identity, including foreign policy discussions with his national security adviser, schedules of meetings with Cabinet secretaries and a summary of at least one intelligence briefing to President Barack Obama, according to new emails obtained by Just the News.
The new memos were released by the National Archives over the Memorial Day holiday weekend under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of Just the News that sought emails that Biden received or transmitted as vice president using his robinware456@gmail.com account.
While none of the newly released emails had classification markings on them, several included sensitive information transmitted over an insecure Google email account that could be of value to foreign powers and hostile spy agencies. The latest batch involved communications mostly from 2012.
Federal employees are allowed to use a private email account only as long as they forward government-related messages to their official work account in order to preserve the conversations so they can later be made available to the public or accessed by oversight groups.
To date Biden has not offered any explanation why his private email account was used and the emails were apparently not forwarded to secure government servers.
The Archives says it has tens of thousands of such emails from three Biden personal pseudonym accounts used during his vice presidency
Remarkable about face quotes
Last August, I published a letter from reader Marvin Levine that read in part: "I believe Donald Trump is the biggest a–hole that walks the earth … I think his supporters have a screw loose" and "the sane people left in the country should do everything possible to keep him out of the White House."
Levine now writes again, starting with "Mea culpa" and adds: "While I am still not a big fan of Trump, the last year has been such a disaster that we will not survive another four years of Biden's leadership. The border, the Trump persecutions, the economy and his deteriorating mental and physical state leave us no choice."
2024-05-29
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What went wrong with capitalism
Just one problem: the era of small government never happened. Government has been expanding for nearly a century in virtually all measurable respects, as a spender, borrower and regulator; the one brief retreat, under Bill Clinton, proves the trend. In the US, government spending has risen eight-fold since 1930 from under 4 per cent to 24 per cent of GDP — and 36 per cent including state and local spending. What changed under Reagan was that as spending rose, tax collections remained steady, so government started paying for its own expansion by borrowing. Deficits went from rare to routine and as a result public debt has quadrupled in the US to more than 120 per cent of GDP today.
America is displacing Europe as the society least tolerant of financial distress for anyone, up to and including the super-rich
Rather than reversing the course of government, Reagan changed the conversation, which did often focus on a neoliberal agenda of cuts to taxes or deficits or regulation. But even when governments attempted to deregulate, the result was more complex and costly rules, which the rich and powerful were best equipped to navigate. By the 1980s, fearful that mounting debts could end in another 1930s-style depression, central banks started working alongside governments to prop up big corporations, banks, even foreign countries, every time the financial markets wobbled.
With good reason, progressives deride this new version of capitalism as "socialism for the very rich", but governments were doling out relief for the poor and middle class too. More than socialism for the rich, this is "socialised risk", a campaign to inoculate an entire society against economic downturns. Although still widely criticised as the land of "raw" Reaganite capitalism, America is displacing Europe as the society least tolerant of financial distress for anyone, up to and including the super-rich.
Something has been changing in the culture. Just as the American "revolution in pain management", which insisted on treating even moderate injuries with powerful opiates, was hooking the nation on OxyContin, its approach to economic pain management was addicting the system to a drip feed of government support. During the past two decades, the US fell from fourth to 25th in the Heritage Foundation rankings for economic freedom as both regulation and debt increased.
If the era of small government was a myth, then the majority who want government to "do more" would be wise to think twice. An even bigger government is more likely to magnify than ease their frustration with the dysfunctions of modern capitalism.
America is displacing Europe as the society least tolerant of financial distress for anyone, up to and including the super-rich
Rather than reversing the course of government, Reagan changed the conversation, which did often focus on a neoliberal agenda of cuts to taxes or deficits or regulation. But even when governments attempted to deregulate, the result was more complex and costly rules, which the rich and powerful were best equipped to navigate. By the 1980s, fearful that mounting debts could end in another 1930s-style depression, central banks started working alongside governments to prop up big corporations, banks, even foreign countries, every time the financial markets wobbled.
With good reason, progressives deride this new version of capitalism as "socialism for the very rich", but governments were doling out relief for the poor and middle class too. More than socialism for the rich, this is "socialised risk", a campaign to inoculate an entire society against economic downturns. Although still widely criticised as the land of "raw" Reaganite capitalism, America is displacing Europe as the society least tolerant of financial distress for anyone, up to and including the super-rich.
Something has been changing in the culture. Just as the American "revolution in pain management", which insisted on treating even moderate injuries with powerful opiates, was hooking the nation on OxyContin, its approach to economic pain management was addicting the system to a drip feed of government support. During the past two decades, the US fell from fourth to 25th in the Heritage Foundation rankings for economic freedom as both regulation and debt increased.
If the era of small government was a myth, then the majority who want government to "do more" would be wise to think twice. An even bigger government is more likely to magnify than ease their frustration with the dysfunctions of modern capitalism.
2024-05-24
Daily Wire Backstage: Introducing The 2nd Greatest Commercial Ever
These discussions are always interesting. Their commercials are annoying.
They get tangled up over the definition of freedom to the point where it makes it look like they don't know what they are talking about. Freedom is very simple; you should be able to do what you want just so long as you don't interfere with the same right of others. The exact boundaries can be unclear which is one reason why you need a legal system to define rights. For example, free speech and property rights need legal definitions. I just can't claim that something of yours belongs to me. There needs to be a system for determining what is property. Likewise, people shouldn't violate other people's rights in the name of free speech, although there is a lot of that going around.
However, their discussion claims to be for freedom while apparently wanting to constrain freedom by religious values. It makes them look hypocritical.
As a side note, some claim that we have "natural rights". The problem with this is that you may think that you have the right to live but a bear thinks that it has the right to eat. People have preferences and tendencies, where they prosper when they are free, but without a legal system, they have no rights at all. It just becomes the rule of the most powerful.
The political discussion that followed was good.
2024-05-22
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