Popular Science.

Unless it arrives in the form of an APDS penetrator rod. Then you can worry.

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No, that would be the Democrats, the party of Secession, the KKK, and Jim Crow.

Democrats have never gotten over the fact that Republicans freed their slaves.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #394

Will eco-activists kill billions to save the world?

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

UCLA Prof: “We Need To Seriously Question Ideal Of Private Home Ownership”

Paper praising models’ predictions proves they greatly exaggerate

Critics’ Choice Awards Meal Goes Vegan for Climage Change: ‘Amazing Message’

2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears

Ocean Cleaning Device Succeeds in Removing Plastic for the First Time  As Scott Adams says, when we are faced with a problem we tend to invent a way to fix it.

Environmentalists Want To Take Your Food, Your Home, And Your Children

Climate change: No one left to defend the camels

Obama Official: “Americans Choosing Trump would Send the Signal that they Don’t Care about the Climate”  As, indeed, some of us don’t.

ZMan reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

In every human society, large or small, there are people who don’t fit in with the main of the society. At the extreme end, these are criminals and subversives. At the more benign end there are oddballs and eccentrics. In small numbers they are harmless, just as long as they don’t form up into an organized whole. A criminal organization is a collection of people, who are no threat as individuals, but as a group they become a threat to the society. They become an alien body.

Human society is an organism. Like any organism, it must always be aware of threats to its existence, internal and external. A group of people inside society that is either hostile to the whole or merely alien to the whole must be treated as a threat. Since self-preservation is the prime directive of any organism, the most prudent approach is to treat the alien as hostile. To do otherwise risks making an error and allowing a hostile alien inside the society. That is a pointless risk.

Oh, Bob, you’ll be amazed at the number of things that will come up for you to do….

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The tech giants have as much money and influence as nations. So what if we reported on them like countries? What would Apple be? A liberal China…

That pays a good dividend and has a robust stock-option program.

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Chinese expansionism doesn’t always involve reviving, or inventing, territorial claims along their borders. Chinese efforts to annex the South China Sea and large areas on their Indian border get a lot of diplomatic, military and media attention but there is another kind of Chinese expansion that, while less noticed, is becoming a serious economic and political problem for the countries the Chinese have been allowed to invade economically. There are growing number of countries that allow Chinese investment on a large, multi-billion dollar, scale.

Such large investments come with conditions, and that’s where the trouble begins. The Chinese insist that they must bring their own Chinese workforce. This includes demands that these new visitors can establish their own Chinese settlements and then stay when the project is over. The new visitors must be allowed to start businesses. This sort of thing results in the Chinese establishing a permanent economic presence and control over a growing percentage of the local economy. This does not always end well, with the Chinese being driven out of the country along with any more Chinese investment. One reason for building a large navy and military air transport fleet is to provide armed escorts for Chinese bill collectors and diplomates.

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The Labor Department issued an official rule on Sunday that corporations are only liable when they directly control the policies of their franchisees, effectively rolling back Obama administration policy that had tried to benefit unions, the Washington Examiner reported.

The Obama administration attempted, through the so-called joint employer rule, to have franchiser corporations be legally responsible for workplace violations by their franchisees, even if those were legally independent businesses.

With Democrats, it’s never about who is at fault, it’s always about who they can soak.

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Seeing how the government performs in other areas, I’m not going to trust it for my livelihood.

Ask disabled veterans how well the VA serves their medical needs, for example.

UK Anti-Terror Police Listed Extinction Rebellion in a Guide to Prevent School Atrocities

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According to an Election Data Services analysis of the Census Bureau report, “The population projections point toward a ten [congressional] seat change over 17 states across the nation by year 2020.”

Seven states are projected to gain one or more congressional seats after the 2020 election; 10 states are projected lose one seat.

The red-state leader is Texas, with a projected pickup of three congressional seats following the 2020 census — and that after gaining four congressional seats after the 2010 election. Florida will pick up two seats, and Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one, according to the analysis.

All 10 losing states — Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia — lose only one seat.

Of the seven states gaining seats, five voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Of the 10 states losing seats, five voted for Trump and five for Hillary Clinton.

Do we really face a climate cat–astrophe?

Plants growing around Everest as ice melts on Himalayas  OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

Italian plan to create world’s largest ski network in Dolomites leaves environmentalists aghast

Carbon Sequestration

Democrats: 100% Clean Energy by 2050, because “Australia is Burning”

Say Bye Bye Trees: Climate Scientists Finally Claim We Passed a “Tipping Point”

Roger Federer issues non-committal reply to Greta Thurnberg fossil fuel criticism  OK, doomer.

The Amazon stores tons of carbon. Climate change-fueled wildfires could ruin that.

Steve Sailer.

The New York Times, of course, think’s this is a SCARY THING.

Of course, anybody who works at the NYT would die of mortification if one of their offspring decided to join the military.

Black recruits tend to be the children of blacks who served. A 1994 book about recruiting by Moskos made the point that even by then there were a lot of two or three generation black families in the Army (less so in other branches), typically specializing not in combat but in supply paperwork jobs that could then transition to a civilian government job, with an ideal path of collecting two nice pensions. It’s a pretty sensible way to go through life.

Maybe that’s how Trump got black unemployment figures so low.

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The conventional mixture is usually three-quarters gold and one-quarter copper, with a density of about 15 g/cm3. That’s not true for this new lightweight gold: its density is just 1.7 g/cm3. And nonetheless it is still 18-carat gold. How was this miraculous lightness achieved? Instead of a metal alloy element, van ‘t Hag, Mezzenga and colleagues used protein fibres and a polymer latex to form a matrix in which they embedded thin discs of gold nanocrystals. In addition, the lightweight gold contains countless tiny air pockets invisible to the eye. The researchers’ study on this process has just been published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

Everythin’ goin’ be plastic bye and bye….

Misinformation Campaign Targets Australia Wildfires  Claim the ‘climate change’ alarmists.

Jane Fonda Saves the Planet From Herself

How I Was Manned

Viking runestone reveals fear of climate catastrophe, scholars find

Tom Steyer to Climate Change Refugees: Come to the US  Where you can do jobs Americans won’t do.

America’s Climate Friendly E-Scooter Carnage

#COP25 hypocrites line up for beef burgers while lecturing us on the climate dangers of meat

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

Joaquin Phoenix Says He ‘Flew Plane Out’ To DC To Join ‘Fight’ Against Climate Change

“Being American is bigger than just the paperwork.”

— Scott Adams

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The most densely populated city on Earth had only one postman. His round was confined to an area barely a hundredth of a square mile in size. Yet within that space was a staggering number of addresses: 350 buildings, almost all between 10 and 14 stories high, occupied by 8,500 premises, 10,700 households, and more than 33,000 residents.

Smitty at The Other McCain is ahead of the fashion curve.

I don’t know — I kinda like Dave Chapelle.

If life can be said to have an “operating system”, then humor is the test cases that pretty much everybody writes. Except feminists.

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Free training sessions at synagogues in the wake of a machete rampage in Monsey, N.Y., and a wave of other anti-Semitic attacks after being offered by a training academy run by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces.

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Pass the popcorn.

CNN covers all of the important news.

Have you ever asked yourself: Do I have a fat tongue?

It’s not a idle query. If you are one of the one billion people globally who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, having a fat tongue could be a key reason you snore, choke, gasp or stop breathing periodically during the night, ruining your sleep and potentially your health.

Yet another thing to worry about.

The Cult of Climate ‘Science’

How to build a circular economy that recycles carbon  “The right way to think about and support carbon capture and utilization.” You’re too stupid to think for yourself, so you need some 20-something ‘journalist’ to tell you how to think.

Bernie Sanders Attacks Bezos, Backs Amazon Climate Activists  Of course he does.

“Reckless and Selfish”: Aussie Politicians Urge Climate Activists to Cancel Protest

Ocean acidification a big problem — but not for coral reef fish behavior

How Long Will Australia Be Livable?

We save lives and crops every time a coal plant closes  Popular ‘Science’.

Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?  Hunt: Yes.

Chamber of Commerce Moves Left on Climate Change

Why plastics may not always be the worst option for the planet

Are Australia Bushfires Worsening from Human-Caused Climate Change?  Yeah, if you call arson ‘human-caused climate change’.

Montana Glaciers 1, Climate Hysterics 0

Australia Is Burning: Blame The Greens & The Arsonists

Australia’s Severe Wildfires Were Predicted by the Government over a Decade Ago

UK: National Trust to forest vast swathes of farmland under plans to go carbon zero

The solutions to climate change and obesity could be found in our cities

‘Montana Glaciers 1, Climate Hysterics 0’? Check the Score

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After initially blaming mechanical malfunctions for the crash, a version of events that was almost instantly refuted by experts and the airline in Ukraine, Iran is now claiming that UIA Flight 752 tried to turn back after take off, suggesting that the cause of the crash was something other than the misfiring of one of Iran’s Russian-made missile-defense systems, according to Bloomberg.

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Thank you, Minimum Wage Increase.

EU farming subsidies to be replaced by fund linked to efforts to combat climate change, Theresa Villiers to announce

German Greens: Use Climate Emergency Declarations to Jail Deniers

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale  And if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.

‘It’s Not Arson’: Gizmodo Managing Editor Has Meltdown Over Australia’s Wildfires

The Climate Decade that Was: Failed Predictions, Tour De Paris, and the Gretas

Glacier National Park Is Changing Signs Warning That Glaciers Would Be Gone By 2020. Here’s What They Say

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“The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration,” Trump said. “The regime also greatly tightened the range on their own country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are taking place all throughout Iran.”

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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More suspicious details have surfaced over the past few hours as investigators take the first hard look at the circumstances that caused a Boeing 737 to plunge out of the sky minutes after takeoff.

Bloomberg reports that foreign investigations into what happened will undoubtedly be hindered by the regime, particularly amid rising tensions with Washington. Meanwhile, more evidence as emerged to suggest that the jet was a victim of a misfiring of Iran’s missile defense system.

As theories multiplied, the Ukrainian embassy in Tehran amended an earlier statement on its website, in which it ruled out terrorism. Instead, it offered ‘no comment’ on possible causes.

UPDATE: Group Speculates Ukrainian Jet Crash Was a ‘Shootdown Event’

UPDATE: Tehran Plane Crash Appears To Be “A Shootdown Event,” Experts Say

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Prince Charles will fly round the world to launch summit bid to save the planet

Climate Alarmists Winning the War of Words, Despite Evidence that Nothing Unusual is Happening

Urban Transit Is an Energy Hog

Colbert and Jane Fonda Push Climate Alarmism — Only 10 Years Left!

Greenland Ice Core CO2 Concentrations Deserve Reconsideration

Rest Easy, World. Vogue Editors and Celebrities Are Here to Save the Environment.

Australian Police Charge Several People For Intentionally Setting Bushfires, Activists Blame Climate Change

US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop in 2019

Obama-Era EPA Chief Becomes Head Of One Of The Country’s Largest Enviro Groups  Regulatory catch-and-release.

Teen Firefighter Charged With Setting Some Australian Wildfires

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That’s not who we are.

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Hammer tech.

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A massive contribution to the DNC would probably give them the most bang for their riyal.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Extinction Rebellion activists embroiled in row over whether flying is ever acceptable

Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration Or maybe not.

Golden Globe Awards Hysteria: ‘Climate Disaster,’ ‘Country on Brink of War’

Tom Steyer: “Climate is my Number One Priority”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #393

Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’  I think not,.

Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires  Must be deniers.

FT: “Democracies are ill-suited to deal with climate change”

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Omar, a Somali refugee, won the ignominious vote over Louis Farrakhan and Richard Spencer.

Quite an achievement, even though Spencer is only anti-semitic in proglodyte delusions.

NYT: Australia is Committing Climate Suicide

The sad truth about our boldest climate target

German grandmothers protest broadcast of song calling elderly ‘environmental pigs’

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I admire Gates’ philanthropy and respect it. He has done fantastic things for this world. But two of the things he has always demanded of the organizations to which his foundation donates is efficiency and return on investment. There is nothing more inefficient than government. While people are sleeping in tents on 35-degree nights, government agencies devoted to stopping homelessness spent money on a conference that featured a stripper.

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Bill Gates is worth $110 billion. If the government took half of his wealth, he is still filthy stinking rich beyond any of our wildest dreams for ourselves.

Compare and contrast that to a mom and dad who have both worked really hard their whole lives. Let’s say they’ve denied themselves some indulgences because they wanted to provide for themselves and their families, so they could have something for their kids. They’ve invested, they’ve been diligent, and they’ve worked tirelessly. Over the years, they accumulated $1 million or $2 million. Now you want to take half of that? They go from having their own little piece of the American Dream to wondering why they denied themselves those indulgences for all those years, if the money was just going to government anyway. The $1 million they lose out on is a lot different than the $50 billion Gates would lose.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder that Trump is far from being the worst liar in politics.

The Other McCain is on the case.

In case you didn’t already know, “incel” means “involuntary celibate,” i.e., a loser who can’t get laid. A “normie” is an average, normal guy who may or may not be getting any action, but who is not tuned into the Great Conspiracy Wavelength Frequency by which the incel gained awareness of his existential hopelessness. Incels consider “normies” even more disgusting than “Chads” (the apex predators of the sexual ecosystem), and basically want all normies to die….

2004 Climate Apocalypse Prediction Bites the Dust

1.5 degrees Celsius: the sad truth about our boldest climate change target  Vox.

Scientists detect “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on weather  CBS.

Meat Loaf: Greta Thunberg has been “Brainwashed”  I’ll do anything for climate change, but I won’t do that.

Greens Pushing Hard to Blame Aussie Climate Policies for Bushfires

Hijacking Australian 2019 Bushfire Tragedies to Fearmonger Climate Change

Own A Home? You’re Responsible For California’s Wild-Fires

CNN Hints Climate Skeptics to Blame for Australia Wildfires

Australian Police Say Arsonists & Lightning To Blame For Bushfires, Not Climate-Change

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

In sailing, rock climbing, construction, and any activity requiring the securing of ropes, certain knots are known to be stronger than others. Any seasoned sailor knows, for instance, that one type of knot will secure a sheet to a headsail, while another is better for hitching a boat to a piling.

But what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now.