It has been funny to watch Woke whites caterwauling over Joe Biden’s alleged racism with increasing frequency and intensity.
Meanwhile, he remains at the top of the polls of because of his thus far unshakable black support and, to a lesser extent, his support among Hispanics and Asians.
In the latest YouGov poll, taken after the third debate where Biden made another unforgivable remark about something or other having to do with how black parents raise their parents, Warren is beating Biden among white primary voters but he is crushing her among non-whites in general and blacks in particular (where he beats her 47% to 11%) and as a consequence has a six-point edge overall:
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The future of nuclear power has long been part of the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, built in the 1950s, is the second-largest university reactor in the United States. But it’s small — operating at just 1% of the energy of the recently closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.
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Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty to two federal criminal charges, one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, for her involvement in a birth tourism business that was based in Orange County, California, according to a press release from the Justice Department.
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Moving past a brief apology for the unavoidable wordplay, we take a look at Trump’s simple motto for his 2020 campaign. Even simpler and probably more effective than his 2016 Make America Great Again.
A certified Crustian sounds the alarm for his own side.
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In an era obsessed with how white guys down through the centuries have hurt the feelings of nonwhite guys by inventing so much, male creativity increasingly shrinks back to obscure bailiwicks that nobody else cares much about, such as baseball.
Since the 1970s, smart whites and Asians who like working with data have increasingly turned to their safe space: baseball. So far, at least, you can recognize all the patterns you want in baseball statistics without a Twitter mob canceling your career.
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If you’ve ever stood in front of your recycling bin—unsure if the trash in your hands is recyclable—and threw it in anyway, this article is for you.
Over on Mother Jones, writer Jackie Flynn Mogensen followed the effects of “wishcycling,” when a consumer commits this trash faux-pas in the hopes that somewhere down the line, their garbage will find its rightful place whether it be with other, similar recyclables or in a landfill.
People who write for Mother Jones are like that.
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Democrats such as Beto O’Rourke have proposed a number of new gun laws, such as universal background checks, a ban on magazines that hold more than ten bullets, and possibly even a “mandatory buyback” of some weapons such as AR-15s. While these laws are likely to be a headache for law-abiding gun owners, the nation’s murderous psychopaths aren’t quite certain how the laws will affect them.
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When I go shoppingf for wine, in particular everyday drinking wine, I give bonus points to wines with screw-tops. It’s more convenient, the bottles fit in the refrigerator more easily, and even ignoring the risk of TCA contamination, there is much less risk of failure. Everyone has seen crumbly corks and corks that broke off halfway out of the bottle, and that just doesn’t happen with screw-tops.
Wisdom Attend.
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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Wouldn’t you like a system like that in the U.S.?
When government provides your health care, doctors become government employees. For examples of quality government employee work, try the Postal Service, the TSA, and a VA hospital.
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A friend who is a doctor told me—and therefore it must be true—that a well-known social media site has decided that from now on it will not publish how many people “liked” what people had posted on it because some posts attracted many more “likes” than others, thereby wounding the self-esteem of those whose posts were not much “liked.” From now on, the only person to know how many “likes” his post attracts will be the person who posted it. He will not be able to compare himself with others and will therefore be able to continue to think well of himself.
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“It’s come full circle, now they’re eating each other,” comedian Nick Di Paolo, who just released his own special, “Breath of Fresh Air,” told the Daily Caller. “I’m the counter culture now, guys like me that lean right, those people, the woke ones, they are the culture. That’s how bad it is, that Chappelle and Bill Burr are labeled like the Anti-PC guys.”
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Up until now ‘public servants’ have had to depend on tedious manual systems like sending ‘investigative reporters’ out to track down suspicious rumors. Now they’ve managed to bring this essential feature of government into the new millennium.
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The three-level building near Zurich features 3D-printed ceilings, energy-efficient walls, timber beams assembled by robots on site, and an intelligent home system. Developed by a team of experts at ETH Zurich university and 30 industry partners over the course of four years, the DFAB House, measuring 2,370 square feet (220 square meters), needed 60% less cement and has passed the stringent Swiss building safety codes.
It also looks like a broken toy that somebody threw in the trash. This would appear to be an excellent illustration of the principle Just Because You Can Now Do Something A New Way Doesn’t Mean That You Ought To Do it.
Evidently the construction industry is one of the most regulated, inefficient and corrupt businesses in the US. Just replacing human workers with robots and building offsite can save enormous amounts of money and time just by avoiding all the payoffs you have to make otherwise to get anything done. That’s why a lot of these houses are being built in China at the moment.
As usually happens, the things that activists bitch about are caused by the governments to which activists want to give greater power. ‘We’re from the government and we’re here to help.’ Help like that we don’t need.
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He argued that, as a vegetarian, he should have the same rights as employees who suffer discrimination over their religious beliefs or sexual orientation, which are characteristics protected by the 2010 Equality Act.
But his claim was thrown out at an employment tribunal in Norwich, Norfolk, after a judge decided that vegetarianism was a “lifestyle choice” and does not qualify for protection under the Act.
Since we now know that there is no such thing as a ‘gay gene‘, this same logic ought to apply to perverts homosexuals.
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Given the omnipresence of “statistical significance” in pedagogy and the research literature, it was interesting last year when the American Statistical Association made an official statement “ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values” (discussed here) which includes comments like: “Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold. … A p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result. … By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis.”
Jay, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.
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One contemporary observer, a legal theorist in his mid-30s named Carl Schmitt, found the seeds of the crisis within the idea of liberalism itself. Liberal institutions like representative democracy, and the liberal ideal that all a nation’s citizens can be treated as political equals, were in his view a sham. Politics at its core is not about compromise between equal individuals but instead conflict between groups.
“Even if Bolshevism is suppressed and Fascism held at bay, the crisis of contemporary parliamentarism would not be overcome in the least,” he wrote in 1926. ”It is, in its depths, the inescapable contradiction of liberal individualism and democratic homogeneity.”
A voice of the Crust attempts to hijack classical liberalism in the service of the proglodyte Narrative.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly planning to move his business – and his home – to Florida, one of seven US states with no personal income tax, to avoid New York taxes, according to Bloomberg.
Apparently rich people prefer hurricanes to high taxes. Wonder why.
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Trevor Noah talks to an actual black guy about what they can do to spread the Narrative. (Trevor likes to check in with actual black people periodically to make sure he’s on track.)
Actually, the available evidence suggests that Democrats chiefly want to cause trouble while lining their own pockets, which is the only Stuff they really care about. That’s why it’s so common to see African politicians get busted for bribery, cronyism, and other types of corruption.
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As George Orwell once noted, “The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” According to Orwell, the typical socialist is “either a youthful snob-Bolshevik … or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and often with vegetarian leanings.” Orwell wrote those words in 1937, but they’re entirely recognizable today, especially the line about vegetarianism. There’s something about the left that makes them highly neurotic about food. That’s been true for generations, but there’s evidence the impulse is getting worse.
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Catch that? Warren says you eat too many cheeseburgers — as if it’s any of her business. But that’s the thing: She actually thinks it is her business. They all think that. The activist left seeks to control everything you do, including what you put in your mouth. For the last few years, they’ve been pushing you to eat bugs. Recall this headline from The Washington Post: “Eating bugs can help the environment.” Or this one from The New York Times: “Why aren’t we eating more insects?” Bizarre. Why would they want you to eat insects? Because it’s repulsive and un-American, of course, and therefore, in the eyes of the left, it must be awesome. The more perverse and unnatural the better. That’s always been the left’s standard.
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It’s all right for successful, college-educated professionals like Lara Bazelon, Jeff Bercovici, Meghan Daum, and others to write about how much joy their working lives bring them. The people who edit the publications in which such articles appear are themselves college-educated professionals. They too probably enjoy their upper-middle-class lives. To my knowledge, when Bercovici wrote positively about his happy experience as a Forbes staff writer, no one accused him of sucking up to Steve Forbes, the magazine’s owner and publisher and a man whose net worth is estimated to be north of $400 million. When Meghan Daum enthuses about her work at Columbia University, no one accuses her of shilling for an institution with an endowment of more than $10 billion. Lara Bazelon has written for the Washington Post, which, like Amazon.com, is owned by Jeff Bezos. But as for as I know, no one has accused her of shilling for him.
But for working-class people, the rules are different. All those upper-middle-class professionals who edit the nation’s most prominent publications permit only one narrative when it comes to the toiling masses. Their lives are nasty, brutish, and short, and must always be portrayed as such. To publish a story about a person who enjoys working at Wal-Mart or Starbucks or Georgia Pacific or Amazon is considered tantamount to white-washing the horrific crimes (whatever those may be) of oligarchs such as the Walton family, Howard Schultz, the Koch brothers, or Bezos.
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In what appears to be a huge victory for Google employees who don’t ascribe to the ultra-liberal Silicon Valley monoculture, the National Labor Relations Board has reached a settlement with Google over complaints that the search giant punishes employees for speaking out on political and workplace issues that don’t comport with the company’s agenda.
Well, let’s see how long that lasts.
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After Porsche announced that its 750 HP Taycan EV, being dubbed a “Tesla-killer”, had set a 7:42 time at the Nurburgring, Elon Musk quickly Tweeted out that the Model S would be there the “next week” to make a run of its own.
With results as you might expect.
Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark, he’s Justin Hammer.
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It is no shock that most Americans, most of the time, disapprove of politicians and political parties. Thus, the task of a party is not to be universally beloved, but rather, not to be disproportionately disliked.
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A married man who died of a heart attack after having sex on a business trip in France was ruled to have been the victim of a workplace accident — making his company financially responsible, according to reports.
Engineer Xavier X was found dead in his hotel room in Meung-sur-Loire shortly after having sex with a local woman he’d just met, according to the Times of London.
Lawyers for his bosses at the Parisian railroad construction company TSO insisted he was not performing duties when he had the heart attack — blaming the “adulterous sex act that he had had with a complete stranger,” according to the report.
But appeals court judges ruled that an employee on assignment “is entitled to their employer’s protection for the duration of their mission … whether or not the accident takes place as part of a professional activity or as an act of normal life,” the report said.
That’s going to make for some pretty interesting expense reports.
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