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August 17, 2022
CHINA NEEDS CHIPMAKER TSMC MORE THAN TSMC NEEDS CHINA: “The truth is, no part of the world is in a position to do without the chips that TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] supplies. And that may be one thing that is actually protecting Taiwan from an invasion. Because the reality of an invasion would lead to a disruption to the supply of chips that would cause a global downturn in the economy.”
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WELCOME BACK, CARTER! ‘Last call:’ Dodge will discontinue its iconic muscle car, transitions to electric cars.
LEANING RIGHT IS THE SOLUTION TO IMPROVED PERFORMANCE: You’re Probably Taking Your Pills Wrong, New Study Finds. “That’s the finding of a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University who simulated how pills and tablets dissolve in the human stomach and are released into the upper intestine. They found that the ideal posture for fastest absorption wasn’t sitting upright, but leaning to your right.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Drug combo can produce stronger flu treatment, study finds.
HAHA: Producers Confirm Liz Cheney Will Not Be Back For Season 2 Of January 6 Hearings. “‘Liz was a standout in season 1 and we’re sad to see her go,’ said fellow actor and screenwriter for the show Adam Schiff. ‘We will carry on without her, however, as there are many more exciting storylines we have planned for next year!'”
READER FAVORITE: Rand McNally 2023 Large Scale Road Atlas. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? How Large Breasts Changed Medicine Forever.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SMALL GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM: Mike Pence: “Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.”
The owners also explained they had catered to vegans before, but they decided to stop doing so because of many vegans’ “‘holier-than-thou’ attitude.”
“Please, vegans, It is not a given that we should adapt our menu to suit your preference,” the owners wrote. “If you want vegan food, go to a vegan restaurant…which incidentally if I went to one and asked for a steak I wouldn’t get one, nor would I expect to.
“You have chosen your lifestyle, it’s not a medical condition that you’ve been forced to endure through no fault of your own. Your choice does not fit with our style of cooking. We respect your choice, and expect that you respect ours.”
The restaurant said it was “unfair to tar everyone with the same brush,” but it said the decision to stop offering vegan options “was sadly brought about by the militant minority which has subsequently [spoiled] it for the majority.”
Based.
UNEXPECTEDLY! First Starbucks to unionize in California on strike in Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Starbucks employees from the store on Ocean Street went on strike Sunday.
They started their strike on Saturday morning at 5 a.m., and are going to strike until Monday evening, with the hopes of having their voices heard.
Employees unanimously voted to unionize in May 2022, making it the first Starbucks location to unionize in California. The employees say they haven’t seen any changes since they unionized, prompting them to strike.
What took them so long?
Meanwhile, in the other big parentheses state: ‘Woke’ NYC Starbucks now a haven for junkies, drunks and homeless. “‘Starbucks got too woke too fast,’ said java joint regular Constantine Dobryakov. ‘Now some customers are too scared to go in because you’ve got a bunch of homeless people sleeping in there. They got to be ready to kick people out and not give everyone a free cup of coffee. You give them a finger and they’ll take a hand.’”
HARSH BUT FAIR: Twitter Is Objectively Pro-Groomer.
THOUGHTS ON THE ARMY’S PERSONNEL CRISIS. “What does matter is that a large number of people in the country think ‘being woke’ in the Army is something tangible and perceivable, and when those parents, relatives, or friends say to a high school junior or senior that they shouldn’t join because they will experience all the wokeism they can handle, all the time, and that’s not good, well, there’s a big strike because the Army and DoD writ large have not developed a decent counter-narrative.”
Well, it’s hard to develop a counter-narrative. First, the charge is basically true. Second, wokeism makes it difficult, and possibly dangerous, to develop a narrative that in any way cuts against wokeism, as any successful counter-narrative must.
And it’s not just here: UK Air Force chief of recruitment quits over exclusion of white males.
If an adversary, say China, wanted to undermine the West, would it spread an ideology that looked rather like wokeism? I think that it would.
MADE IN THE USA: c2M Heavy Duty Floating Tool Shelf 2-Pack. #CommissionEarned
LIZ CHENEY’S NET WORTH BALLOONED AS MUCH AS 600 PERCENT DURING HER TIME IN OFFICE. From $7m to $44m. Of course, this is hardly confined to Cheney, but given the bipartisan nature of these suspicious wealth increases, you’d think the media would be more on top of it. I remember when Congressmen bouncing 4-figure checks was a big deal.
HENCE ITS IMMEDIATE REBRANDING AS THE “DEMOCRATS’ CLIMATE AND HEALTH BILL:” LOL: Even 52% of Democrats don’t believe ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will actually reduce inflation, poll finds.
CAN THE UK SHOW US A BETTER WAY TO TEACH LAW? Maybe, though I strongly suspect that the only real way to deal with lawyers being so expensive and yet necessary is to have many fewer laws.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: I Regret Being A Slut.
I know regretting most of my sexual encounters is not something a sex-positive feminist who used to write a column for Playboy is supposed to admit. And for years, I didn’t. Let me be clear, being a “slut” and sleeping with a lot of men is not the only behavior I regret. Even more damaging was what I told myself in order to justify the fact that I was disposable to these men: I told myself I didn’t care.
I didn’t care when a man ghosted me. I didn’t care when he left in the middle of the night or hinted that he wanted me to leave. The walks of shame. The blackouts. The anxiety.
The lie I told myself for decades was: I’m not in pain—I’m empowered.
Looking back, it isn’t a surprise that I lied to myself. Because from a young age, sex was something I was lied to about.
Long before I ever had sex, I felt ashamed of my natural sexual urges and awkward in my blossoming female body. Growing up Catholic, all I remember about sex was feeling bad about it before I even knew what “it” was. I only knew that sex before marriage was wrong. Even the thought of a sexual act or masturbation filled me with debilitating guilt. The first time I kissed a boy, I was convinced I’d be punished. Struck down by an angry, misogynistic God.
As I got older, I was told to guard my virginity. Well-meaning mothers and aunts were clear that I needed to withhold sex in order to get a man to love and respect me. Sex was a commodity, a priceless gem I had to hang on to that increased in value the longer I held it. It made me feel like property. And although I don’t think that was the intention of the wise women who had learned their own lessons the hard way, for me, sex became inextricably linked to my self-worth.
The shame and guilt I grew up with regarding sex felt oppressive. I resented the double standard that men could be promiscuous and it would raise their status and a woman would be slut-shamed for similar behavior. My burgeoning sexuality would unfold as a reaction to these repressive religious orthodoxies, old school notions of sexual status, and trauma.
I lost my virginity at 17 to my boss at a restaurant where I worked. And a year later, I experienced my first sexual trauma. I felt damaged and dirty and I blamed myself. Everyone responds differently to these situations—I dealt with the overwhelming shame by becoming hyper-sexual and promiscuous.
The Culture was right there to pick me up and dust me off. I doubled down on being a proud slut and internalized the biggest and most damaging lie: that loveless sex is empowering. I basked in the girl-power glow of that delusion for decades, weaponizing my sexuality while convincing myself I was full of the divine feminine.
I was full of shit.
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THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GET COCKY: Don’t Look Now, but Democrats Are Gaining on Republicans Across the Board.
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FASTER, PLEASE? Another tantalizing step closer to a universal flu vaccine.
My only concern is that if we get a universal flu vaccine, and then get a strain that it doesn’t protect against, it’ll be a virgin-field epidemic with a population with no flu immunity. I don’t know how well-founded that is.