LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: From ‘magical’ to ‘rip it out’: different brain implant experiences.
Archive for 2023
August 21, 2023
I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING: Mouth rinse might spot early heart disease risk, study says.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Empowering Intimacy: Exploring the Benefits of Remote-Control Vibrators in Long-Distance Relationships.
This whole remote-work thing is getting out of control.
READER FAVORITE: Gel Seat Cushion for Long Sitting. #CommissionEarned
THAT TOAD, WORK: Gen Zer In Their First Internship Can’t ‘Fathom’ Working For The Rest Of Their Life — ‘I’m Just Supposed To Do This Forever ‘Cause I Need Money?’
But note to author Alexandra Borgier, if you think life is tough in a “late-stage capitalist” system, you should try being a peasant in a feudal system. Or a prole or an Outer Party member in a communist system.
SCIENCE: Women look at women’s breasts as much as men do. “We can’t just pin this on the men. Women are perceiving women this way, too. It could be related to different motives — men might be doing it because they’re interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves. But what we do know is that they’re both doing it.”
BUDGET RED LINES BEING DRAWN: First out two weeks before the September Budget Battle Showdown begins is the House Freedom Caucus.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Sunflower field owners ask visitors to stop taking nude photos.
BOOK OF THE DAY: Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love. #CommissionEarned.
UPLOAD YOUR MIND: The race to link our brains to computers is hotting up.
I used to be more enthusiastic about this kind of tech, back when I trusted tech people more.
Tech is no longer a threat to the establishment, it’s one of the establishment’s main sources of money and power.
Which is bad in itself, but also casts a new sort of light on questions like “do I want my brain connected to a computer?” The answer is very different when the computer is basically my device that I control, the way computers were in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as opposed to an interface with a network of hardware and software that I don’t control and can’t trust. Letting something like that connect to my brain is a much less appealing proposition. Likewise AI personal assistants to run my affairs, and even upgrades to my physical body that involve any sort of computerization. You know, all the paraphernalia of 1990s transhumanism.
So I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t trust them because they’ve shown themselves to be untrustworthy, and back around the turn of the millennium they hadn’t really done so yet.
So there’s that.
STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Kansas State U Racially-Discriminatory “Multicultural” Scholarship Challenged By Equal Protection Project.
Related: Which Groups Have Received Racial Preferences in Higher Education Over the Years?
NOT ENOUGH POLITICAL POWER TO EXTRACT GRAFT? Why Can’t You and I Get Rich Quick?
It’s true, of course, that most well-off people come from at least reasonably well-off parents. But while some of that may be embedded socioeconomic privilege, it may also be due to heritable traits that promote wealth, just as a propensity toward alcoholism or a short time horizon does the opposite. To his credit, Freddie admits this: “Now, because I’m me, I would point out that because academic ability is heritable and academic ability is moderately to strongly correlated with financial success, it wouldn’t be correct in a simplistic sense to suggest that this means that the persistence of family wealth is random or independent of the ability of the individual.”
But it’s also true — and increasingly so, I’d say — that society is run largely for the benefit of the upper quintile, if not the upper decile, and all sorts of policies both reflect and reinforce that. Indeed, pushback against that, and the over-the-top reaction thereto, is the hallmark of Trump-era politics.
AOC WON’T SHED A SINGLE, MANUFACTURED TEAR: Saudi border guards kill hundreds of Ethiopian migrants. Nobody cares about Saudi human rights violations. It doesn’t pay.
MATT TAIBBI: Tracking Orwellian Change: The Aristocratic Takeover of “Transparency:” Klaus Schwab, the Aspen Institute and others flip the meaning of a word that once meant the empowerment of populations against political elites. But now that sort of empowerment is the worst nightmare of the global ruling class.
#JOURNALISM:
What happened to Lahaina is a tragedy. Thousands still missing, including children.
Everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong. Sirens didn’t go off, water that could’ve been used to put out the flames was restricted, and power lines kept operating despite the danger posed… pic.twitter.com/LHAtKUEnxq
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 21, 2023
Remember:
UPDATE: Truth is a “right wing narrative.”
Disinformation Expert: China and Russia are amplifying the "right-wing narrative" that residents of Lahaina, Maui, are upset with the government's response.
Lahaina residents: Why didn't the government activate the emergency sirens or divert water to support firefighters?
Why… pic.twitter.com/0T5DtNdIS4
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 20, 2023
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: THREE aliases, Joe? The Biden Mafia setup is crystal clear.
Related: Joe Biden’s email aliases reveal truth behind aw-shucks facade.
DAVID BERNSTEIN: Which Groups Have Received Racial Preferences in Higher Education Over the Years?
Looking at the underlying facts in major cases in the Supreme Court and circuit court cases, we see that Black Americans have always been eligible [for preferences], the Mexican American classification expanded into all Hispanics, Asian Americans and subgroups thereof were initially eligible but later were considered “over-represented” and therefore at best ineligible for preferences, if not subject to higher standards than white applicants.
And all of this is illegal and unconstitutional.
STANDING UP AGAINST POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION: Doctors sue to stop mandated ‘implicit bias training.’
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Larry Hogan Threatens To Launch “No Labels” Third Party Run In Case Of Trump-Biden Rematch.
STONEWALLING ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Delays continue with SFSU records request on Riley Gaines mob attack.
DEAL OF THE DAY: HP EliteBook 845 G8 14″ Notebook. #CommissionEarned
MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Is Ignoring Maui, but I Have a Plan to Get Joe There ASAP! “Some of you are going to curse me out as being heartless, but what I’m about to say is true, Hawaii lacks the electoral votes to draw *President Biden’s interest. Also, Hawaiians are too damn loyal to the Democrats to begin with. . . . Please understand that Biden requires spending 40% of his year sunning his bumper crop of liver spots, and he’ll get to you when your number of electoral votes increases and your unshakable loyalty begins to waver.”
Plus: “The bad news: No, Kruiser is not yet back. The good news: He is day drinking.”
WELL, THEY SHOULD BE SINCE THE CCP HAS BOUGHT UP HALF OF IT: Most voters are concerned about China’s influence on the nation’s government. “According to the survey, 63% of voters believed that, to varying degrees, China has some level of influence over American politicians. This included “37% of Likely U.S. voters believe China has a lot of influence over American politicians and another 29% think China has some influence.” It comes after multiple reports indicate repeated efforts by China to attempt to influence the nation’s politics, Rasmussen acknowledged.”