Archive for 2023
June 28, 2023
IT WAS A GOVERNMENT-CREATED SHORTAGE: Researchers find unsafe feeding methods spiked during infant formula shortage.
Related: FDA Finally Admits It Caused the Baby Formula Shortage.
SOD OFF SWAMPY: SciAm wants you to drink warmer cocktails to save Gaia.
As SciAm rightly points out, ice wasn’t even available to people in most places most of the time until an enterprising New Englander invented the industry in the early 19th century, cutting ice out of a lake in the winter and storing it for distribution throughout the year. He even created a worldwide industry well before artificial refrigeration was invented.
This is, I suppose, proof that human life and ice need not coexist, but that says little about whether a world with ready access to ice is preferable to one without.
It is, in fact, preferable to have ice available.
At this point, lefties are basically in a contest with one another to see what they can get people to give up in the name of their Earth cult.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Study links lupus flare-ups with gut bacteria.
TO BE FAIR, THE BIGGEST VIOLENCE WAS THE SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED WOMAN BY A CAPITOL HILL COP WITH A BAD RECORD: Senate panel: U.S. intelligence ignored warnings of Jan. 6 violence.
KRISTI NOEM: “The best way to celebrate America’s Birthday is with fireworks at Mount Rushmore. Today, the Biden Administration rejected them. Again.”
Which means: “The last time there were fireworks at Mount Rushmore was in 2020, when Trump was president, meaning that the Biden administration has denied it every year they have been in office.”
WAS IT OVER WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? Even cheat sheets couldn’t save Biden from a gaffe: President, 80, says Putin is clearly ‘losing the war in Iraq’ while clutching notes on the Wagner uprising.
GOING TO THE MATTRESSES: The GOP Primaries Are Gonna Get Ugly — Between Us, Not Them.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden Had One Heckuva Exchange With Reporters on the WH Lawn Wednesday.
When asked a question about the situation in Russia and Putin’s future as the leader of the country given last weekend’s coup attempt, Biden responded that “it’s hard to tell, but he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq, losing the war at home, and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.” No, that’s not a typo. Yes, Biden confused “Iraq” with “Ukraine.” . . .
When another question was asked of Biden, this time about the whistleblower disclosures regarding Hunter Biden’s communications with foreign nationals, the president responded angrily and shouted at the reporter.
“How involved were you in your son’s Chinese shake-down text message?” Biden was asked. “Were you sitting there? Were you involved?”
“No I wasn’t,” Biden snapped, his face twisting into a deeper-than-usual scowl before shouting “no!” again for extra defensive effect.
Joe Biden just SCREAMED at a reporter for asking if he was involved "in [Hunter Biden's] Chinese shake-down text message." pic.twitter.com/pDWuC759SQ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 28, 2023
He just doesn’t look right lately.
OUCH: Ford Plans to Lay Off at Least 1,000 Contract and Salaried Workers.
Ford Motor plans to lay off at least 1,000 salaried employees and contract workers in North America, people familiar with the matter said, the automaker’s latest effort to defray the heavy cost of investing in electric cars.
In internal meetings Monday, Ford began notifying some salaried workers in North America that job cuts would be coming, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday morning. The planned layoffs are concentrated in the engineering ranks, where Ford is targeting costs across its business units, he said.
The automaker has made several rounds of global layoffs over the past year, including a 3,000-person reduction in the U.S. last summer and a slightly larger layoff in Europe initiated earlier this year.
Ford has about 28,000 salaried employees in North America. The U.S. automaker’s plan for another round of layoffs was first reported last week by The Wall Street Journal.
This latest reduction of Ford’s white-collar workforce includes employees in its electric-vehicle and software side of the business, the company spokesman confirmed.
Earlier today: “For all the ‘thou shalt have only electric vehicles by [insert date]’ mandating going on by state legislatures, greasy governors, and a Biden administration desperate to shove them down our throats, the numbers on the ground are signaling pretty stiff resistance.”
SPACE: NASA converts pee to drinkable water on International Space Station.
Future crewed deep space missions that will last months or even years will be very different from any that have come before. Until now, astronauts have either carried their own supplies along or relied on regular visits from cargo ships. As to waste products, these were simply disposed of in a variety of ways. Unfortunately, deep space missions don’t have that luxury.
A mission to Mars, for example, could last two years. That’s a lot of water to take along at a gallon (3.8 L) per person per day. If the spacecraft has a crew of four, that comes out to about nine tonnes of water at a minimum. It also ends up as tonnes of pee.
The ideal craft would be essentially self-sufficient with the ability to recycle air and water as well as growing its own food like a closed ecosystem. As the first step toward this, NASA has been testing the water recovery components of its Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) aboard the ISS.
Consisting of a Water Recovery System, a Water Processor Assembly (WPA), a Urine Processor Assembly (UPA), and the Brine Processor Assembly (BPA), the ECLSS recovers and reprocesses water on the space station through a series of steps, from urine as well as crew breath and sweat that accumulates in the air, and then purifies it into drinking water.
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The result is a 98% recovery rate. This can be accomplished on Earth, but the ECLSS can do the same thing in zero gravity.
If NASA could just figure out how to do this with scotch, you’d only ever have to buy one more bottle of each of your favorites.
HIRING FAILURE: Georgetown hires Anthony Fauci as ‘distinguished professor’ of infectious diseases.
The Left has many sinecures for its loyal servants.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Free college only deepens the class divide’: electrician’s op-ed blasts credentialism.
Related: To Reduce Inequality, Abolish The Ivy League. “Where the upper-middle class and rich go for taxpayer-subsidized, elitist networking.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: BougeRV 12 Volt Refrigerator. #CommissionEarned
STANDING UP FOR CUBAN FREEDOM FOR TWO DECADES: Happy 20th Anniversary to the Babalu Blog!
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: More Damning Biden/ChiCom Evidence for the DOJ to Ignore Emerges. “Sadly, I think that Garland is willing to risk permanent injury to his neck looking the other way when it comes to his boss. At this point, he probably has a chiropractor in attendance 24/7.”