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We need to stop letting people ‘tell their stories’. Why should random people get half an hour to tell what Oprah would call ‘their truth’? There are so many podcasts out there that simply broadcast people’s rambling anecdotage about the worst thing that ever happened to them — going for that salacious, daytime-TV vibe, but with the authority of journalism, which means narrating traumatic and often outlandish stories while the hosts offer weighty reflections like ‘huh’ and ‘crazy’.

BLM Founder Who Went On Property-Buying-Spree Complains About “White Supremacy” In Housing Market She’s so oppressed.

A Black council member protested Andrew Brown Jr. shooting. Police urinated on his property to retaliate, he says. (Washington Post) He’s so oppressed. (And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.)

More than 90% of Black Americans say they have been racially profiled while shopping (The Guardian) They’re so oppressed.

Murdered 4-year-old Dallas boy was randomly targeted in an ‘evil’ act

Banks Push Back on Black, Minority Farm Loan Relief Program  I grew up in farm country, and I’ve never seen a black farmer. Have you?

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Giving Interviews Only To Journalists Of Color  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Mother Savagely Beaten As Bystanders With Phones Do Absolutely Nothing To Help Her

Footage Shows Wild End To High-Speed Police Chase Involving 5 Juveniles

UNC Will No Longer Offer ‘1619 Project’ Lead Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones A Tenured Position

AP Hires Anti-Israel Activist as News Associate

‘Adopt-A-Gang-Banger’: Greg Gutfeld Has A Solution For Democrats Who Don’t Want Gang Members Deported

Janet Yellen makes an idiot of Pete Buttigeig Granted, not a high bar.

CNN’s Brian Stelter hits another yearly low in key demo as Fox News thrives Who wants to get their news from a Seinfeld character?

Trump Says Jan. 6 Commission Is ‘Democrat Trap’ Unless Portland, Minneapolis Riots Also Studied  Well, yeah.

Police recruiting suffers as morale hits new lows  Gee, I wonder why?

Google employees demand Palestine support in letter to CEO

Liberal TV Touts GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Biden’s Policy Debacles

Space Force Refuses To Specify Why Commander Was Fired Over Podcast Appearance  BECAUSE WE SAID SO, DAMMIT!

The Left’s Misplaced “Compassion” Destroying Seattle  Time to leave.

CRICKETS: ABC Silent After Biden’s Joking Threat to Murder Its Reporter

WATCH: Dems Abandon Israel

Police Recruiting Plummets While Crime Surges In Major US Cities

Progressive Philly DA Larry Krasner Wins Primary Despite Record High Homicide Rates

Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor.

Rep. Massie ‘Files’ Threat Of No-Mask Fine From Pelosi Into Trash Can

Anti-Semitic Bias? Facebook Admits to Deplatforming Pro-Israel Page after “Islamic” Attack

MSNBC Founder’s Scheme to Swamp Swing States With Dem Voters

23 House Republicans Demand Reinstatement Of Space Force Commander Fired For Criticizing Marxism

Existing, And 6 Other Things You Didn’t Know Were Actually Microaggressions  Babylon Bee.

Texas Pro-Life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans

Historic Church Carvings Will be Replaced With Feminist Figures

Obama Bros Urge Donation to Terror-Linked Charity

FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks: Vaccinated People May Need COVID Booster Within a Year

Governors’ pandemic-fueled powers dissipate

‘Those Neanderthals Really Knew What They Were Doing’: Dagen McDowell Mocks Joe Biden As Texas Death Rate Plummets

NYC supermarket upsets mask advocates and those who want to ditch their mask with new policy (Daily Mail)

European Union to open borders to vaccinated travelers

Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19

Fauci says people are “misinterpreting” the new CDC mask guidance

Watch: Communist Professor Declares That US Was Defeated In “Biological War” With China

Three GOP Lawmakers Fined $500 For Defying Nancy Pelosi’s Mask Mandate

Does getting COVID-19 protect you against reinfection?

Young Men Stole $2 Million In COVID Relief, Then Thought It Was A Good Idea To Flaunt Cash Online  Ya cain’t fix stupid.

Fauci Admits Rand Paul Was Right: Mask-Wearing After Vax Was Theater

‘The People … Have Spoken’: Voters Strip Away Layers Of Pennsylvania Governor’s Emergency Powers

Government’s Ill-Timed Sit At Home Money Is Hurting The Economy

Demand After COVID-19 Sparks School Choice Proposals in Pennsylvania

‘They Won’t Make Fun Of Me Ever Again,’ Says Dr. Fauci While Designing New Virus In His Lab  Babylon Bee.

Why Are People Still Wearing Masks Outside?

‘There’s no higher ground for us’: Maldives’ environment minister says country risks disappearing  (CNBC) And yet it never actually does.

Energy Companies Must Immediately Halt All New Projects For World To Meet Paris Accord Target, IEA Report

Biden Administration Has Allowed 61,000 Illegal Immigrants Into US

Projecting manmade climate change: scenarios to 2050

Global Warming Explains Everything

Closing racial wealth gap could grow the Massachusetts economy by $25b over five years, according to report (BetaBoston) Black people had better start cracking, then.

Hunter Biden-Linked Legislative Group Has Partnered for Years With a Chinese Propaganda Front

Biden’s Border Policy Is an Economic Boon for Cartels, Assault on American Communities

‘Imagine If Trump Had Said That’: Jesse Watters And Dagen McDowell Say Reporters Would Have Seen Biden’s Joke As A Threat From Trump

New York AG: “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity”

It’s time for the House to show Marjorie Taylor Greene the door (Washington Post)

Almost half of Republicans admit they’re ready to ditch democracy (Washington Post)

Liberal groups call for boycott of Fox News (The Hill) Wow, there’s a surprise.

Pentagon launches program to surveil military personnel’s social media

The ‘Woke’ White Lesbian Couple That Secretly Abused Their 6 Adopted Black Kids (Daily Beast)

Joy’s Hodgepodge of Hate: Reid Maligns Police, Claims Dems Accept Losing Elections

CNN’s View of Rioters Depends on Their Politics

Adam And Eve Kicked Out Of Garden Of Eden For Having Only Two Genders  Babylon Bee.

Jewish Diners Attacked in L.A. by Pro-Palestinian Caravan

BLM Sends Rioters To Gaza To Protest Israel By Burning Down Palestinian Businesses

Man Arrested And Charged After Allegedly Talking About His Involvement In The Capitol Riot At The Dentist

MSNBC Still Wondering if Trump Admin Used Lab Leak Theory As a ‘Scapegoat’  Relinquishing the Narrative is hard to do.

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Five Oregon counties approved measures Tuesday to secede and join Idaho, despite the chances of it actually becoming a reality.

Voters in Lake, Grant, Baker, Sherman and Malheur counties approved measures requiring county officials to take steps to secede and move the Idaho border further west in order to encompass the counties, according to The Hill. Two other counties, Jefferson and Union, voted in favor of the measure back in November.

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Within President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is $174 billion that would both extend the electric vehicle tax credit as well as replace government cars with electric ones. To put this level of waste into perspective: $174 billion is more than practically every state budget.

The proposal would federalize the failed climate mandates in California. It’s not hard to see what’s being forced on states (like my homestate, Kansas) next from the state that has become a socialist laboratory for bad policy experiments. California’s governor even recently signed an order that will phase out gas-powered cars by 2035. This is not based on reality.

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The U.S. military is having trouble finding recruits that aren’t too heavy to meet guidelines because of the growing childhood obesity rates across the country, so Army recruiters are working to identify potential soldiers who need to lose dozens of pounds before they can qualify to join the military.

“You’re even recruiting in a population that is obese,” retired Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, who served for 35 years in the Army and works with the nonprofit group “Mission Readiness” to prepare potential recruits, told NPR. “That’s what our recruiters around the nation are dealing with.”

According to the Department of Defense, a full third of young adults ages 17-24, the optimal age for recruits, are simply too heavy to sign up.

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According to video accounts of the incident posted on Twitter, the pro-Palestinian mob approached a group of men dining at a sushi restaurant in West Hollywood and asked if they were Jewish. When the men replied, “Yes,” they attacked them. The mob hurled bottles and yelled anti-Semitic slurs. One bystander said they repeatedly struck one of the Jewish men “with a pole.” Police are investigating whether the incident was a hate crime.

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The project is a boon for real estate developers and a constellation of nonprofits and service providers, but a boondoggle for taxpayers. The physical apartment units are bare-bones—small square footage, cheap flooring, vinyl surfaces—but have construction costs similar to luxury condos in the fashionable parts of Los Angeles.

 

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When Americans think of failed cities, places like Portland, Seattle, Detroit and Baltimore come to mind. But Minneapolis is, at a minimum, flirting with a similar status. The problem is out-of-control crime. Last Saturday night, six people were shot in Minneapolis, including a nine-year-old girl.

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Israelis have long since realized that Democrat politicians are lying sacks of shit and slimy weasels who would sell their own grandmothers for votes.

Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone is one of those books everyone knows, but no one has read (I haven’t). It’s quite a trick, really, to have something so “in the air” like that, such that nobody actually has to read it. If you’ve been to college, or read even a BoomerCon or CivNat site, you know it, in the same way everyone who has been to college knows stuff like Orientalism and Manufacturing Consent. But in case you’ve forgotten, Putnam’s thesis is that social cohesion is real, it’s important, and it is rapidly degrading. His metaphor is bowling leagues — these things used to be everywhere (I was in one in junior high, meaning, the phenomenon was so widespread they could have youth leagues); now they’re not.

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Mandatory, government-sponsored fun has been on the European Left’s agenda practically since the Estates General. All of that stuff — hiking clubs, guitar clubs, model this-and-that clubs — falls under “building Socialism,” and the idea is either to totally replace a community’s organic ties with State-mandated bonds, or to restore a community’s organic ties via State-mandated bonds, depending on whether the “Socialism” you’re building is of the Soviet or Nazi variety.

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A member of the House of Lords in England is currently under investigation for refusing to participate in a mandatory anti-sexual harassment training.

Lord David James, Baron of Blackheath, said that if he took part in the training it would be an act of “treason” against the Queen, according to Insider. James is one of four Lords who are under investigation for not taking part in the program, which was due to be completed by April 1.

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James, a life peer, said he took an oath to uphold the Queen’s coronation oath and that he thinks the training would breach said oath. He said the training threatens the principle of free speech under the Privilege of Parliament Act 1512.

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A photograph of Canada’s Justin Trudeau shows him using a HP Windows laptop, which wouldn’t be remarked upon, but it sporting an Apple sticker will be.

Fake, but accurate.

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‘The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology,’ noted Wired magazine in 1999. In 2013, an NPR reporter observed that the ‘Amish community [is] not anti-technology, just more thoughtful’. Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired, spent time geeking out with ‘Amish hackers’ and peeking into workshops whose modern machines are powered by compressed air for his book What Technology Wants (2010). He concluded that: ‘In any discussion about the merits of avoiding the addictive grip of technology, the Amish stand out as offering an honourable alternative.’

The foundation of this ‘honourable alternative’ is to not adopt every single new technology, or use cars, phones and social media as soon as they become the norm. Instead, the Amish make slow and deliberate decisions as a collective. Rather than rushing optimistically or blindly into the future, they move forward cautiously, open but sceptical.

Sorry about the ‘we have to tell a story before getting to the point’ article — that’s the way ‘journalists’ are learning to write these days. I blame the Narrative Media.

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Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis attorney who gained national attention after he and his wife pointed weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters outside his home last summer, announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate Tuesday.

“God came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob. It really did wake me up,” he told Fox News “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” while making his announcement to run in the race to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who is not running for reelection when his term expires in 2022.

“It seemed to me that people have to stand up. Each and every one of us needs to stand up and say we are not sheep, we are a free people,” McCloskey further commented.

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As the latest flare-up between the Israelis and Palestinians dragged on, CBS Evening News seemingly wouldn’t be happy until the Jewish State of Israel was pushed into the sea. Tuesday’s edition of their Hamas-friendly coverage featured foreign correspondent Holly Williams scoffing at how two Israeli soldiers were shot by terrorists as Palestinians took part in their “day of rage” in the West Bank. And, of course, she spewed the Hamas propaganda that was fed to her.

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Glad I got rid of mine.

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If he gets forced into retirement, which seems likely, I suspect he will land a lucrative gig somewhere.

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The Associated Press reported in late April that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will hold a national meeting in June where the bishops will decide whether to tell the president, and other high profile Catholic politicians like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, not to receive Communion at Mass if they continue to publicly advocate for abortion.

Biden: ‘Hamas Is Just An Idea’  Marxism is also ‘must an idea’. Both are responsible for mass murder.

Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber Hitting US Homebuyers Hard  The government loves benefiting producers to the detriment of consumers.

Under Pressure From Activists, Biden Admin Agrees To Bring In Thousands Of Refugees A Month

‘Kicked Out On His Ass’: Emails Show Faction Of Federal Officials Celebrated Biden’s Unprecedented Firing Of Labor Board Leader

Then-Sen. Biden Once Called For Israel To Protect Its Land Even If Women Or Children Were Killed, According To Former Prime Minister  That was then, this is now.

REPORT: Public School In Virginia Holds ‘Antiracist’ Event For White People Only

‘Huge Number Of Problems’: Charity Experts Sound Off On BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors’ Potential Self-Dealing

Black homeowner files complaint after home value doubled when white friend stood in for appraisal (Daily Mail) Anyone who knows anything about appraisals knows this for horseshit. Appraisal isn’t about the owner but about the property. Appraisers have to ‘show their work’, listing the comparable properties used and the methodology for the components.This is Yet Another Race Hustle.

CW’s Anti-Cop Sports Drama: Black People ‘Being Hunted’ by Police

Woke CBS Legal Drama ‘All Rise’ Gushes About Crazy Maxine Waters After Cancelation

Suspect Arrested After Water Gun Fight Turns Into Real Gunfire, Fatally Wounding Participant In Park

North Carolina Prosecutor: Fatal Shooting of Andrew Brown Was Justified

Reflections on “Acting White”

Derrick Lewis Reportedly Knocks Out Man Who Allegedly Tried To Break Into His Vehicle

Clear Signs That Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Is Close to a Tipping Point And yet it never seems to tip….

Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study (The Guardian) Obviously they got the talking points memo.

Storm ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming  Wired ‘Science’.

New Scientist: Bleaching Protects Coral – But Only Up to 2C of Global Warming

CLIMATE LITIGATION BOMBSHELL: New Paper Exposes AG “Climate” Suit as Illicit Product of Private Lobbying, Misrepresentation, Paid ‘Cutouts’

Activist Groups That Support Terrorists Organize Anti-Israel Protests Across US

A New History Curriculum or Anti-American Propaganda?

The Deep Unpopularity of Kamala Harris

‘Advocate For Throwing Jews Into The Sea’: Israel Slams Bella Hadid For Attending Pro-Palestinian March

Rashida Talib Says Palestinians Are Experiencing ‘Their January 6’  By randomly firing rockets into civilian areas? I don’t see it.

Joy Reid Compares Mississippi Law Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks To ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’  Joy Behar saves Joy Reid from being the ugliest person on television. (Who named these people ‘Joy’?)

Newsom Turns To Bribery, Opens Up Big Bag Of Goodies To Californians In Bid To Head-Off Recall

If AP really didn’t know it shared space with Hamas, why trust its reporting?

Millionaires who support taxing the rich protest in front of Jeff Bezos’s homes (The Guardian) No sign that he was there, or even noticed. But of course it’s not about Bezos but about Them.

Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd doesn’t like to be called liberal, ‘Don’t start that!’

There are no Marjorie Taylor Greenes in the Democratic Party (Washington Post) Max Boot apparently doesn’t know any real Democrats, nor does he read the Washington Post. Maxine Waters. Alexandria Occasional Cortex. Joy Behar. Joy Reid. Whoopi Goldberg. Rachel Madow. Any member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Etc. Etc. Etc.

How the AP Slanted Border Coverage to Hide the Crisis

The Devil Must be Laughing at the Church of England

Associated Press, Hamas propagandists

DMV Employees In California Allegedly Accepted Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Bribes To Skip License Tests, Officials Say  Well, that’s what you get when crooks Democrats run your state.

CBS Hypes McConaughey for Texas Governor as New Reagan, Hides Gun Control Support

Penn State To Stop Using “Freshman”, “Sophomore”, Other Terms Because Of “Male-Centric” History

‘Your Influence In The Republican Party Is Almost Zero’: Meghan McCain Unloads On Joy Behar In Testy Spat Over Matt Gaetz  I hate to spill the beans, but so is Meghn McCain’s.

REPORT: Registered Sex Offender Charged With Allegedly Murdering 10-Year-Old Girl Was Granted Early Prison Release 

Anti-Gun Activist Says The Quiet Part Out Loud

YouTube Removes Video of Legal Scholar Defending Israeli Airstrikes

Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review

In the Middle East, Discredited Myths Never Die

PBS: How Dare 48% of Americans Not Believe Their President That White Supremacy Is the Most Lethal Terrorist Threat to the Homeland Today?

CNN’s Cuomo Claims Being Pro-Life Is About Racism and Jim Crow

Report: Matt Gaetz Should Be Weeping, Rocking Back and Forth in Fetal Position Right Now (Vanity Fair) Or at least that’s what this proglodyte is fantasizing, and of course it was published.

The C of E is redefining sin  It still won’t save them.

Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For “Hate Speech” After Saying “A Man Cannot Get Pregnant”

New York Times Puts Final Nail in Steele Dossier Coffin, Discrediting Its Own Reporting

District Attorney Vows To Go After Ex-SWAT Officer After His Charges For Pepper Spraying Protesters Are Dismissed

CNN Propaganda: GOP Hated Obama ‘Mostly’ Because of Race  Naw, he’d have been a loser even if he were white.

USA Today’s Armour: NCAA Putting Trans Athletes Lives In Danger

Navy Fighters Shoot Down Hostile UFO After It Refuses To Give Its Pronouns  Babylon Bee.

UVA Med School Under Fire for Expelling Student Who Questioned Microaggressions

Do Vaccines Facilitate the Emergence of COVID-19 Variants?

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory

Sweden Records More Than 30K Cases Of Side Effects Tied To COVID Jabs

How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices

Senate Discards Masks, House Mandate Remains

California Churches Win Fight Against Newsom’s COVID Restrictions

House Dems Contradict CDC Guidance on Mask Wearing  Of course. The Narrative trumps The Science every time.

Biden Wears Mask Outside Days After Saying Vaccinated Americans Don’t Need One  He wouldn’t want to be mistaken for a conservative.

‘So, It Was Theater’: Political And Conservative Commentators React To Fauci Admitting Vaccinated Didn’t Need To Wear Masks  No, it was LIES.

Chinese Sinopharm Vaccine So Ineffective That A Third Injection Is Being Rolled Out  I suggest that there’s a reason the term ‘cheap Chinese knockoff’ is a cliché.

‘Not Based On Science’: Rep. Massie Refuses Pelosi Mask Mandate For Floor Vote

PBS Journalist Implies That Ending Mask Mandates Is Racist

Steve Hayward at Power Line.

The Democratic Party’s current obsession with anti-racism uber alles reminds me of the old apocryphal story of the woman who challenged a lecturer (usually said to have been Bertrand Russell) with the proposition that “the entire universe is balanced on the shell of a giant turtle.” To which Russell asked, “What’s the turtle standing on then?”

Answer: “You’re very clever young man, but it’s turtles all the way down.”

For the left, it’s racism all the way down. It explains everything, and has to be incorporated into everything now. Except when climate change explains everything, and has to be incorporated into everything.

Totalitarians always focus on language, as Goebbels and Lenin knew well.

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In certain ways, it must be fun to be a left-winger. Pushing for any policy that seems socially just without the constraint of how it actually works out for people (i.e., ignoring the horrors left behind in socialism’s wake throughout history) makes things a whole lot easier. Sounds fun, too.

Just going with your heart and hoping for the best must be liberating. But the most fun leftists have must be when they sit around to talk about some of the dumb ways conservatives talk.

Language is, of course, crucial in a political debate. The left understands this better than the right. The left is also aided by the media, which will always use the left’s preferred phrasing.

To use one prominent example, if the left likes to use the word “pro-choice” and the right prefers “pro-abortion,” the press will go with “pro-choice.” On the other side of the debate, if those on the right prefer to be called “pro-life” but the left defines them as “anti-abortion,” the press will again defer to left-wing terminology and refer to those on the pro-life side as “anti-abortion,” even though that’s not the term they use to describe themselves.

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You really have to have been in the Navy to FULLY appreciate these, but they’re situations that almost anybody can enjoy.

Jeff Bacon is a national treasure.

Severian peers behind the curtain.

The great thing about industrial work, though, is that you don’t have to be particularly bright to do it. There’s always going to be a fraction of the population that fails the IQ test, no matter how low you set the bar, but in the early Industrial Revolution that bar was pretty low indeed. So much so, in fact, that pretty soon places like America were experiencing drastic labor shortages, and there’s your history of 19th century immigration. The problem, though, isn’t the low IQ guys. It’s the high-IQ guys whose high IQs don’t line up with remunerative skills.

My academic colleagues were a great example, which is why they were all Marxists. I make fun of their stupidity all the time, but the truth is, they’re most of them bright enough, IQ-wise. Not geniuses by any means, but let’s say 120 IQ on average. Alas, as we all know, 120-with-verbal-dexterity is a very different thing from 120-and-good-with-a-slide-rule. Academics are the former, and any society that wants to remain stable HAS to find something for those people to do. Trust me on this: You do not want to be the obviously smartest guy in the room when everyone else in the room is, say, a plumber. This is no knock on plumbers, who by and large are cool guys, but it IS a knock on the high-IQ guy’s ego. Yeah, maybe I can write you a mean sonnet, or a nifty essay on the problems of labor over-supply in 16th century England, but those guys build stuff. And they get paid.

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I don’t care. I ain’t driving no Hindenburg with wheels.

If we want Hammer tech, we’ve got Tesla.

ZMan.

Every once in a while, a post or series of posts comes along that captures why conservatism never amounted to much. This post in the ironically named American Conservative is a good example of the genre. The topic is how to deal with the privatization of authoritarian power, primarily in Silicon Valley. The argument put forward is that using the state to tame these rogue companies is morally wrong, so we have to find some new way to contend with these out-of-control tech firms.

The first thing you should notice is the style is exactly what we get whenever the topic of immigration in on the table. The obvious answer is dismissed. In the case of immigration, that means shutting down the border and cracking down on employers who use helot labor. The open borders crowd always says that is impossible or harmful in some way. Instead, they offer a collection of overly complex solutions that have no chance of succeeding but will keep the punditry busy.

Certainly worth it to us normal people. We wouldn’t want anyone to mistake ‘Camera’ Hogg for a conservative either.

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Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported. The idea was simple and powerful. If journalists tried to be neutral and kept their reporting separate from their opinions, analysis, and speculation, the public would believe them.

Those days are long gone, along with the media’s credibility gone. Journalists and media organizations are now smack in the middle of many stories they cover, in part because they want to be. They want to spin them, to set the narrative.

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‘Hey, is that your new Tesla?’ ‘Uh, no, that’s a concrete block….’

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For our latest hit of “just feels right,” we turn to road printers. I.e. machines that lay unfurling tongues of brick perfectly.

I don’t think I’ve ever been that hard up.

(How long before they get rid of the humans stacking the bricks?)

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The researchers have described their new “optical rectennas” in a paper published today (May 18, 2021) in the journal Nature Communications. These devices, which are too small to see with the naked eye, are roughly 100 times more efficient than similar tools used for energy harvesting. And they achieve that feat through a mysterious process called “resonant tunneling” — in which electrons pass through solid matter without spending any energy.

“They go in like ghosts,” said lead author Amina Belkadi, who recently earned her PhD from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE).

Rectennas (short for “rectifying antennas”), she explained, work a bit like car radio antennas. But instead of picking up radio waves and turning them into tunes, optical rectennas absorb light and heat and convert it into power.

I’ll believe it when I can buy one at Walmart.

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The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried about how they’d collect payments.

Yes, the fuel-carrying pipeline was shut down last week in order to prevent a company that is entrusted with what should be a public utility from enduring an accounting headache.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Steve Sailer sounds the alarm.

Sure, the Saxons lost out to the Angles in getting their name on the language and country. But that’s nothing compared to the marginalization of the Jutes.

We need to fight back against the erasure of the Jutes by getting Biden to declare a Jute History Month.

IS OUTRAGE!

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I guess we’ll be told we’re unseemly if we giggle at the cancellation of useless stooge Don Lemon’s low-rated airport lounge video muzak, or at how the Israelis leveled the Gaza high-rise housing the AP and Al-Jazeera. Well, color us unseemly, because when the media suffers, we celebrate.

And we’re not going to apologize for it. Half of America, at least, now cares about the media precisely as much as the media cares about us – that is, not at all. In fact, we actively wish it ill. We cheer when some trash website or paper folds. The frequent layoff announcements make us giddy. Sad journalists whining about how people on Twitter dare criticize them cause us to howl in delight.

Our contempt for them is a result of their contempt for us. And as individuals and collectively, we should do whatever we lawfully can to hasten the collapse of the mainstream media as an institution.

Harsh? Nah.

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A reminder: Businesses don’t pay taxes — businesses merely collect taxes from their customers for the government. Like any cost, the cost of taxes is incorporated into the price of goods sold; corporations really don’t care one way or another, since it doesn’t come off of their bottom line.

‘Taxing business’ is merely another shuck-and-jive on the part of politicians to disguise the fact that they are actually increasing taxes on ordinary citizens. Such taxes are regressive, hitting low-income people more than high-income people (who are less affected by high prices). Governments are constantly looking for ways to pick taxpayers’ pockets without getting noticed, which is why VAT is so popular in Europe.

… that the FBI can apparently track the Jan. 6 Capitol ‘riot’ protesters across the country but can’t seem to find the scruffy Antifa terrorists who are actually trashing buildings and burning police stations?

CNN Contributor Calls for a New ‘Hitler’ to Kill All the Jews in Israel

Former Professor Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Using Federal Grants To Aid China’s Medical Research

Police Across America Brace For Another Violent Summer

China increases spending 500% to influence America

Mounting Violence Casts Doubt Over the Project of Progressive “Reform” Prosecutors  Glenn Greenwald.

Vaccine Passports And Medical Paternalism

The Achilles heel of the Coronavirus

Vaccine-hesitant Americans cite inaccurate side effects (Axios)

Delta Air Lines Caves to Media, Mandates COVID-19 Vaccines for New Hires: Report

Fauci Says COVID-19 Showed The ‘Undeniable Effects Of Racism

Democrats Wearing Binkies To Wean Themselves Off Masks  Babylon Bee.

2 Months After Biden Called Reopening Measures ‘Neanderthal Thinking,’ Texas Reports Zero COVID Deaths  Reality is what sticks around even when you refuse to believe in it.

Cuomo Set to Earn $5M From Book on COVID-19 Leadership  Dividing that amount by the number of people he killed is left as an exercise for the reader.

WHO Has Used ‘Brazilian Variant’ And Other Terms In Violation Of Its Own Best Practices  I don’t associate ‘WHO’ and ‘best practices’.

The public health credibility crisis

Biden Issues Dark Prediction For Unvaccinated Americans, Warns They’ll ‘End Up Paying The Price’  Desperately trying to keep the panic going.