DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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It is not a pretty sight.

Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry Neufeld, to pay a C$750,000 penalty. Tribunal officials concluded that certain statements Neufeld had made, protesting the inclusion of LGBT-related content in the school curriculum, had exhibited “hallmarks of hate.”

“Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’” the tribunal declared. “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial.”

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of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act, better known as NEPA. NEPA is what requires projects to perform years-long, thousand-plus page environmental impact studies before construction can begin, and suing a project for an insufficiently detailed environmental study is one of the chief ways environmental groups are able to slow down or stop projects they don’t like. And NEPA’s influence goes beyond federally funded projects: NEPA also influenced the creation of many similar laws, both at the state level (such as California’s CEQA) and in countries around the world.

None of these effects of NEPA, however, were envisioned when the law was written. NEPA was seen primarily as an (aspirational) statement of US environmental policy, which was to “encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment, to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; [and] to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation.” The provision that requires environmental impact statements was added last minute as a way to try to give some teeth to these high-minded but somewhat abstract ideals, and received virtually no attention at the time.

Modern laws are quite predictable, since they were made by idiots for morons.

New York Post.

The participants appear to be Adolescents of Color beating up on Adolescents of Pallor.

Who could have seen that coming?

The Telegraph (UK).

An outbreak of common sense in mainland Europe. Who could have predicted that?

The Telegaph (UK).

Houthi rebels are preparing to shut the Bab el-Mandeb strait on behalf of Iran.

The Yemeni group, Tehran’s most capable regional proxy, is laying the groundwork and quietly extending their reach to the Horn of Africa, according to sources in Yemen.

The Houthis will work with al-Shabab, the Somali militant group, to control both sides of the waterway in order to inflict more pain on the global economy and ramp up pressure on Donald Trump.

“There are a lot of indicators showing coordination between the Houthis and al-Shabab,” one source told The Telegraph.

The Saudis might have something to say about that … and the Egyptians, most of whose foreign exchange hard currency comes from what they make from the Suez Canal.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

The Telegaph (UK).

Apparently it’s going to take a while before foreigners internalize the fact that Democrats aren’t in charge of the U.S. government any more.

The Telegraph (UK).

My, what a surprise.

Tje New Neo.

Congress may be about to make Daylight Savings Time the permanent time in the US, rather than shifting back and forth seasonally between Standard and DST. The seasonal shifting is annoying to many people, but the change would pit the Morning People against the Night People.

Summer isn’t the problem; it’s winter that creates the issue. Do you want you or your children to get up in the dark to go to work or school – something you may be doing already anyway if your start time is early? Or do you want the depressing experience of night falling long before the afternoon is finished? Your answer matters not only on whether you favor Night or Morning, plus how early work or school starts, but on your latitude and your east-west location in your time zone. The more north you live and the more to the east in your zone, the more extreme your winter/summer sunrise and sunset times.

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Meet Abdul Karim Mustafa:

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Remember how the Charlottesville riot, organized in large part by the far-left SPLC, was used by the Left to paint every Republican as a neo-Nazi for a decade?

Remember how they took a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville and melted it down as a humiliation ritual?

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Today in Black Privilege….

Babylon Bee.

Seems appropriate.

Democrats keep electing people to Congress who hate America. Don’t really see what they’re accomplishing with that.

Babylon Bee.

That’ll teach ’em.

If it were up to me, that time would be served bound to a stake buried in the shore below the low tide mark, and ancient English punishment.

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To tell the truth, most of the coastal Crust are shocked by rural America as well, although of course not in the same way.

I’d gladly trade ten Democrat Congresscritters for this young German girl.

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We have the technology.

“Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren lie awake at night in fear that somebody somewhere is doing something that is unregulated by the government and, worst of all, making some money doing it.”

— Name withheld upon request, for obvious reasons.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

“People say it’s a dry heat. Well, so is an air fryer.”

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Tim Pool explains it all to you.

Apparently the U.S. military started preparing for maritime war since Trump’s first term.

With maps! I love maps….

Babylon Bee.

Sources within the Democratic Party admitted that they have completely lost count of Jim Crow, with fierce disagreement over which iteration is which.

“No way. This is at least Jim Crow 8.0,” said Senator Chuck Schumer. “First, the original Jim Crow was black Americans being violently segregated from whites-only places and denied voting rights. Then, there was that Georgia law that allowed more early voting. That was Jim Crow 2.0, which was so much worse than the original. Jim Crow 3.0 was when the court said Harvard had to let Asians in, and 4.0 was…. oh shoot, what was Jim Crow 4.0? Was that what Hakeem called my 4th of July cookout? I can’t remember.”

Democrats were hoping to work out the answer as they sharpen their attacks on the despicable racism of the SAVE Act, which would require citizens to show photo identification to vote. “Asking for photo ID is far worse than the lynchings of the original Jim Crow,” explained Senator Amy Klobuchar. “It’s at least seven or eight times worse. We’re not exactly sure, but we must stop this law or every black American will die.”

It’s a head-scratcher and no mistake.

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The borders are gone. Click where each state is on the blank map. One wrong click and it all goes boom.

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Gee, who could have predicted that?

Not the Bee.

Details have yet to be released here, but I’m guessing it involved one of the blue-haired trantifa types.

I love the term ‘trantifa’ and intend to add it to my vocabulary.

Liberal women are already storming buildings because they are upset that the foreign criminal was shot while attempting to mow down officers:

As they do.

Not the Bee.

How unexpected.

Not the Bee.

Bison just gotta have fun.

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And a large number of Republicans, let’s not forget them.

New York Post.

Gee, who could have predicted that?

The Telegraph (UK).

My, what a surprise.

Support for Hezbollah is going unpunished, the Tories have claimed after police ruled out charging a radical Islamist cleric who has allegedly praised members of the terrorist group.

Shadow ministers had called for the arrest of Hussain Makke, a London-born Shia preacher who has allegedly mourned members of Hezbollah, the proscribed Lebanese terror organisation – including a British friend who died fighting for it – and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The cleric runs an annual five-day “spiritual warrior” training camp with religious education in the Peak District, one of which took place last month.

The Telegraph (UK).

Lindsey Graham’s sister has been appointed to serve out the remainder of the late US senator’s term after Donald Trump recommended her for the position.

Darline Graham Nordone, 62, has little political experience, but will now serve in the upper house until her brother’s term expires in January.

On Monday, the US president pushed for her appointment, saying it would be a “fabulous tribute” to one of his closest political allies who died unexpectedly on Saturday.

Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina appointed her several hours later. She is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday as the first woman to represent the state in the Senate.

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I can’t imagine anyone other than an American who would do this.

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Not hard to tell. You’re not a narcissist. You don’t spend your life yelling “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!”

(Actually, I thought about getting my blood type on the inside of my left arm, for the practical reason that it allows emergency medical responders to know what transfusion you might need if you’re unconscious. It will also scare the living shit out of anybody who actually knows what it indicates.)

Every time somebody asks me how I’m doing, I always respond “Compared to what?”

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Notice that ‘gang rapes’ are sufficiently common in Germany for the stats to be tracked.

The Foundry.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Britain used to be a Christian country, but apparently not any more.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Forget the butter, I want ot see the cow that it comes from.

Granted, that’s cheaper than Real Butter….

The Guardian, Mouth of Sauron in Britain.

Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.

But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual summit in Ankara this week seemed extreme, even by Trumpian standards. As commentators sought toexplain what happened, their usually capacious stock of Trump-fitting cliches was at risk of exhaustion.

“When the facts change, sir, I change my opinions What do you do?” — John Maynard Keynes.

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

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You deserve a break today, but be sure to have a salad.

Their beef (yuk yuk yuk) with the Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese is that it’s full of things people want and not full of things that Licensed Professionals think they ought to want.

This is why we can never have nice things.

I think I’ll hit McD’s for lunch….

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De mortuis nil nisi bonum, but I doubt that he will be missed.

Now, if we could just persuade a doctor to put a big stake through Mitch McConnell….

The Telegraph (UK).

Rachel Seeviour loves nothing more than a beach holiday. But for the last month, she has been dragged around the US and Mexico watching England with her partner.

You can hear the eyes rolling from 6,000 miles away. (Hey, you could always stay home. I’m sure he’d have a great time without the nagging.)

The Telegraph (UK).

I mean, really, what was she thinking?

And of course he has to apologize, because Feminism.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Usual Suspects are, of course, screaming bloody murder. ‘Journalists’ have to learn that they have to obey the same laws as everybody else.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hey, who’s to say that’s not a part of their culture? Let’s not be haters, here.

The Economist.

i\In recent months Russian military lorries in Ukraine have begun sporting a striking new colour scheme of vivid black-and-white stripes. As camouflage goes, it is not much use against human observers. But then, it is not intended to fool biological eyes. Its aim is to frustrate the machine-vision systems that are fitted to the Ukrainian drones that zip around battlefields looking for prey.

The stripes are reminiscent of the “dazzle camouflage” used by the Royal Navy in the first world war. But whereas dazzle camouflage was intended to break up a ship’s silhouette, making it difficult to judge its speed and heading, the new variant aims to fool machines into thinking that a lorry is not, in fact, a lorry at all.

Machine vision is based on pattern-matching. A model is trained by exposing it to images, some of which contain lorries (or tanks, or aircraft) and some of which do not. Over zillions of exposures, the computer deduces rules that allow it to identify the things its trainers want to teach it about. Because zebra-striped trucks are unlikely to appear in the training data, says Todd Humphreys, an engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, an ai that encounters one in the real world may not realise what it is looking at.

Assuming, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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