CHRISTIAN TOTO: YouTube Punishes Dr. Drew (Again). “Dr. Pinsky has always been more cautious, less willing to inflame the public or start arguments out of thin air. The current tenor of the times, where reasonable debates are silenced on major Big Tech platforms, changed Dr. Pinsky’s thinking.”
Archive for 2023
August 1, 2023
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Ashley Biden Recording CONFIRMS That the Infamous Diary Is Hers, and Sick Joe May Have to Head to the Showers.
BOOK OF THE DAY: Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
NOBODY WRITES ABOUT GUNS LIKE TAMARA KEEL: “There’s the RMR HD, which is an open emitter sight that looks like the result of someone leaving an RMR and an SRO next to each other in the gun safe with the lights turned down low and some Barry White tunes playing.”
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SHOTGUN MINI-SHELLS.
THIS IS WORLD-CHANGING… OR JUST ANOTHER BUST LIKE COLD FUSION: Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim Goes Viral, But Be Skeptical.
The South Korean researchers say LK-99 can be made in a baking process that combines the minerals lanarkite (Pb₂SO₅) and copper phosphide (Cu₃P). They say the resulting material shows two key signs of superconductivity at normal air pressure and at temperatures up to 127 ℃: zero resistance and magnetic levitation.
They propose a plausible theory of how LK-99 might display room-temperature superconductivity, but have not provided definite experimental evidence. The data presented in the papers appear inconclusive.
One of the signatures of a superconductor is the Meissner effect, which causes it to levitate when placed above a magnet.
In a video demonstration, the researchers position a piece of LK-99 over a magnet. One edge of the flat disk of LK-99 rises, but the other edge appears to maintain contact with the magnet.
We would expect a superconductor to display full levitation and also “quantum locking” which keeps it in a fixed position relative to the magnet. In a charitable interpretation, the behaviour we see in the video may be due to imperfections in the sample, meaning only part of the sample becomes superconductive.
So it is too early to say we have been presented with compelling evidence for room-temperature superconductivity.
I’d love to be wrong, but I get the feeling that room-temperature superconductors are the material of the future and always will be.
ONLY A TEACHERS’ UNION AND THEIR ENABLERS WOULD CALL THAT A SHORTAGE: Colorado pupil-to-teacher ratio remains steady during educator shortage.
Colorado’s pupil-to-teacher ratio of 17.1 in 2022-23 was the second lowest rate dating back to 2013. It was the same as last year’s ratio. Only in 2020-21, the first year of the pandemic, was the ratio lower at 16.6.
In 2014-15 and 2015-16, the ratio was 17.5. The highest year was 17.7 in 2013-14, according to data from the Colorado Department of Education.
The number of teachers in the state has remained relatively the same over the past four years. There were 55,197 teachers in 2022-23. The number of teachers the past four school years ranged from the low of 55,197 this past school year to a peak of 55,842 in 2020-21.
Enrollment in Colorado’s public schools reached 913,223 in 2019-20, but has dropped during the pandemic. There were 883,264 students this past school year in 2022-23.
The lockdowns taught a lot of parents what the real value is of an education in so many of our public schools.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study shows women and men react differently to strain and stress.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Portland’s Multnomah County lost $1 BILLION from 2020-2021, as high earners left city amid riots, pandemic.
According to an analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service by The Oregonian from income tax returns filed in 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost a net 14,257 tax filers and their dependents, many of whom were high earners who could do jobs remotely, resulting in a net income loss of over $1 billion.
The outlet reported that the average income of those who left in 2020, the most recent year available, was 14 percent higher than those who moved the previous year, yet the average income of those who remained in or moved to the county declined during the same time frame.
The golden geese are deciding to leave before they can be gutted.
Previously: The Five States Sending the Most High Earners to Florida All Have This One Thing in Common.
IS THAT ALL? THEN WE’RE A WAYS FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, UCLA psychologists report.
Also helping AI in this race is that people appear to actually be getting dumber, so the gap is narrowing from both ends. And no, that’s not even a joke.
On the off chance Democrats do decide to ditch Biden, they’d likely use the creepy personal stuff as the justification while they sweep the corruption (that virtually all of Washington is in on) under the table.
I’M NOT SURE I REGARD AN INCREASE OF 1.24 IN BLOOD PRESSURE TO BE SIGNIFICANT: Even one alcoholic drink a day linked to higher blood pressure. And even at higher doses, the effect isn’t all that dramatic: “Compared with nondrinkers, the study team determined that men and women who drank an average of 12 grams of alcohol a day saw their systolic (top number) blood pressure number rise by 1.25 mm Hg. (Twelve grams of alcohol is a little less than that in a 12-ounce can of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine, or a 1.5-ounce shot of spirits.). Those who consumed about four times that average amount, or 48 grams of alcohol daily, saw their systolic number rise by 4.9 mm Hg, the researchers said.”
But there you are, make of it what you will.
THE NOMENKLATURA WILL NOT GO QUIETLY: The National Scandal That Is Too Big To Break.
Conservatives looking to expose the full extent of the Biden family’s corruption have a problem: the scandal might be too big to break.
Typically, there are three main entities involved in taking down a politician over a corruption scandal. First, there is the media, which broadcasts the details of the scandal, eroding public support. Second, there is law enforcement, which investigates and, if necessary, presses criminal charges. Third, there is the party establishment, which ultimately abandons the politician as a matter of self-preservation, signaling that it’s “game over.”
But what happens when a scandal is so big that the people responsible for breaking it are implicated in it as well?
That is the situation which now faces the mainstream media, the federal intelligence bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party. For years, they have all parroted Biden’s lies and created an echo chamber of denial about wrongdoing by the president and his family. Now, with it all beginning to crumple around them, they’re seeing that the downfall of the president spells the end of their own reputations and careers as well.
Earlier: Biden’s crime family is all of DC.
FRED HOYLE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites from space.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: San Francisco hardware store owned by same family since 1955 has lost staggering $700,000 in a single year to ‘organized shoplifting.’
Dale Hardware’s owner Kyle Smith described the helpless situation in Fremont – and said his grandfather, who founded the shop in 1955, would ‘roll in his grave’ if he knew about the unbridled shoplifting.
The uncontrolled looting in San Francisco has occurred for a number of reasons – including the accelerating organized retail theft and increased homelessness.
Widespread drug addiction and the move away from incarceration for less-serious crimes are also contributing factors, according to experts.
Smith told the San Jose Mercury News: ‘You’ll go, “Sir, sir, sir!” and they don’t even turn around. Or they’ll give you a look, like, “Do you want to go there?”
‘How do we run a small business with $1,800 of loss every day? It ends up costing the consumer more money because we can’t survive without raising prices.’
Fremont was never the most “desirable” part of the Bay Area, but it used to be a very nice community.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Mark Judge: Can Washington pro football recapture the glory years?
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY…: Brilliant! Chicago Mayor Floats Property Tax Hike To Pay for Homeless Shelters.
MOM LOVES DEMOS: And she sends them a lot of campaign money, but those mean old bureaucrats at the FEC say she can’t exceed her individual limit. But that’s no worry, actually, because Mom just sends more money to Democrats via her teenage son and daughter. Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
THE LOWER NUMBERS AREN’T REAL: Smuggling cartels raking in cash despite lower border numbers.
The Biden administration has celebrated a drop in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to sneak across the border over the past couple of months. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has characterized the decline as a blow to the smuggling cartels that control the market.
Yet those who make the attempt are paying more, according to The Washington Times’ database of smuggling cases, which tracks payments in near-real time and which suggests that the cartels aren’t taking as big of a hit as Mr. Mayorkas would like.
A Mexican crossing into the Laredo area of Texas is paying an average of $9,500, up from about $7,400 earlier this year, before the end of the Title 42 border pandemic expulsion policy in May.
A Mexican sneaking into Arizona is paying an average of nearly $10,000, up from about $9,300.
Central Americans pay even more. Mr. Salazar-Estrada’s $17,000 payment is on the high side but by no means extraordinary. The Times has tracked several recent cases of Guatemalans paying 150,000 quetzals, or more than $19,100, to be smuggled into the U.S.
Those from farther afield can pay more, as the Chinese migrant’s case suggests.
Related: Number of migrant families with kids crossing U.S. border nearly triples in two months.
And: Biden’s Border Crisis Is As Bad As Ever, His Admin Is Just Better At Hiding It.
STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Civil rights complaint filed against med school programs that gave preferential admissions to non-whites. “A federal civil rights complaint has been filed against two medical school programs that forced white and Asian applicants to prove they are ‘economically disadvantaged’ to be considered on equal admissions footings with other races. The complaint was filed July 25 by the Legal Insurrection Foundation’s Equal Protection Project.”
2024: DeSantis Reveals Pro-American, Anti-Global Elite Agenda: ‘We Win, They Lose.’ “Is Monday’s big reveal enough to reboot the DeSantis campaign? On its own, no, not even close. But DeSantis is working, belatedly, to change the conversation to something much more appropriate to a presidential race.”
MASSIVE RESISTANCE: California universities have found a way to circumvent the state’s long-held affirmative action laws.
As usual, the Babylon Bee was ahead of the curve.