SINCE IT CAN’T BE RACIALIZED, NOBODY CARES: No one held accountable for the worst mass shooting in Baltimore history.
Archive for 2023
August 30, 2023
READER FAVORITE: Levi’s Men’s 505 Regular Fit Jeans. #CommissionEarned
GREEN WITH DISAPPOINTMENT: EVs Are Supposed to Be Cheap to Maintain—Our Kia EV6 Isn’t So Far.
FINALLY: U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX in Design Maturation, Competing Companies Announced.
The Navy issued its formal request for a sixth-generation carrier-based fighter back in 2012 and 11 years later there’s not even a prototype.
YOU’LL SIT IN THE DARK, BE COLD, AND EAT THE BUGS: Millions Of Brits Told Not To Heat Homes At Night As Part Of ‘Net Zero’ Climate Goals. “Chris Stark, head of the CCC, wants ordinary citizens to turn off their electric heaters (heat pumps) at night as part of a wider drive to deliver ’emissions savings,’ which includes a shift away from gas boilers – which Chris, a hypocrite, still has.”
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WILL FIND A REASON TO BE AGAINST IT: There’s a Vast Source of Clean Energy Beneath Our Feet. And a Race to Tap It.
MR. 81 MILLION VOTES HAS NOTHING TO HIDE, JACK: Why Is Biden Going Into Hiding on the 9/11 Anniversary?
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Exclusive-Walmart cuts pharmacist pay, hours while workload piles up.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: China’s post-reform era has arrived — and its future is unclear.
“I tell the stream of visitors returning to China after the end of zero-COVID that we’ve entered a new era – the post reform era,” Dake Kang, a Beijing-based correspondent for the Associated Press, posted on social media platform X last week.
Even after the extremely strict pandemic-era controls were lifted earlier this year, “Beijing has clung to a strategy of accelerating government intervention in Chinese life,” Ian Johnson, a China expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote for Foreign Affairs last week.
China’s model of economic growth powered by manufacturing and infrastructure projects has run out of steam, and ideological crackdowns have crushed civil society, targeted foreign businesses and scared off investors.
Those trends have led to comparisons between Xi’s current policies and those that led to the eventual collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Yes, but: These challenges don’t necessarily mean China has now entered a period of decline.
It’s too soon to say whether China’s current economic doldrums are the start of a Soviet-style stagnation or just part of the business cycle but if it’s the latter, it would be the first time a country ruled by someone like Xi has dodged the former.
THE FAR LEFT: UNITERS, NOT DIVIDERS! What happens when Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents unite? School Boards shake in their boots.
FASTER, PLEASE: Handheld probe offers power of real-time tissue identification during surgery. I mean, Dr. McCoy could do that.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells. #CommissionEarned
“Biden instantly knew that the White House would have to clarify his mistake. By the time Biden piled into the motorcade. His aides had released a statement walking back his sentence,” Franklin Foer writes in his forthcoming biography of Biden’s first term in the White House, The Last Politician, excerpted in Axios.
“Biden left for home, ending his triumphalist tour, feeling sorry for himself,” Foer continues. “Rather than owning his failure, he fumed to his friends about how he was treated like a toddler. Was John Kennedy ever babied like that?”
Flashback: Who’s in Charge? White House Rushes to Clean up Biden’s Pandemic Remark.
WITH A COMBINATION OF INFORMED INTELLIGENCE AND MOCKING DERISION: The COVID-19 Alarmists Want You Ignorant and Obedient. How Will You Respond?
NARRATIVE MAINTENANCE: The Media Is About to Bury This School Shooting Story. “News broke Monday afternoon of another school shooting. But in the coming days, as details emerge, expect the establishment media to forget about this progressively peculiar case. Already we’ve found that the alleged killer is a Wuhan-educated doctoral student accused of murdering a faculty member, his mentor, inside a campus lab.”
At the very least, they’ll call the perp a “mostly-white Asian” or something.
DISSENT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED: Oberlin coach ‘burned at the stake’ for Lia Thomas criticism. “The report triggered a series of lengthy disciplinary meetings and a full-fledged character assassination campaign against [Russell] involving Oberlin faculty and the women’s lacrosse team.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: Nobody Wants to Buy Electric Vehicles Anymore, They’re Too Popular. “Dealers to carmakers: Stop sending us electric vehicles we can’t sell! That’s the lead crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of the best bad news.”
Plus:
- Who will speak for Maui’s dead?
- YouTube re-demonetized reality.
- The Gadsden patch kid is just the start.
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WELL, LIKE MOST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD THEY HAVE LOUSY POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: Germany Is Losing Its Mojo. Finding It Again Won’t Be Easy. Europe’s biggest economy is sliding into stagnation, and a weakening political system is struggling to find an answer.
Two decades ago, Germany revived its moribund economy and became a manufacturing powerhouse of an era of globalization.
Times changed. Germany didn’t keep up. Now Europe’s biggest economy has to reinvent itself again. But its fractured political class is struggling to find answers to a dizzying conjunction of long-term headaches and short-term crises, leading to a growing sense of malaise.
Germany will be the world’s only major economy to contract in 2023, with even sanctioned Russia experiencing growth, according to the International Monetary Fund. . . .The problems aren’t new. Germany’s manufacturing output and its gross domestic product have stagnated since 2018, suggesting that its long-successful model has lost its mojo.
You have to read pretty far into the article before you see a reference to Germany’s “irrational energy policy.”
UPDATE: From the comments:
Almost a third of manufacturers in Germany are considering moving production abroad due to high energy tariffs in Germany, writes Bloomberg
We could advise one wonderful country where all this is possible, but, most likely, the manufacturers are aware of this and will partially,… pic.twitter.com/zheZRQBLh3
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) August 29, 2023
UH, SHOULDN’T IT BE HERA FALLING? Hera Rising will attempt the 1st stratospheric skydive by a woman in 2025. “The high-altitude suit and related technical expertise come courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corp., which also was the engine behind a record-breaking 2014 stratospheric jump. Besides which, Paragon is a spacesuit developer, working on a team led by Axiom Space that will outfit NASA’s moonbound Artemis program for astronauts. Artemis aims to put diversity at the fore while landing people on the moon again in the middle of the decade. Like NASA, Hera Rising also aims to bring folks of underrepresented countries into careers related to science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM), hence the choice of the three skydivers.”
EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Does History Have A Replication Crisis? “If the lack of replication or reproducibility is a problem in science, in history nobody even thinks about it in such terms. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone systematically looking at the same sources as another historian and seeing if they’d reach the same conclusions. Nor can I think of a history paper ever being retracted or corrected, as they can be in science.”
Well, there’s Michael Bellesiles, who lost his job over a fraudulent history of the right to arms in America. Though I recently ran across a U.S. Court of Appeals opinion that cited his work, with no mention of the fraud.