ICYMI: I REMEMBER WHEN THE BABYLON BEE WAS A SATIRE SITE, NOT STRAIGHT NEWS:
Man Ruled Too Senile To Stand Trial Still Fine To Run Country https://t.co/vFcfq36IwW pic.twitter.com/CY4EFh8a8F
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024
Plus:
Biden Calls For The President To Step Down https://t.co/eovUyl0fOl pic.twitter.com/vuMmLyRK6R
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024
HEH.
"The president spoke powerfully … like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli" https://t.co/QUAgSgaRI7
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 9, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Small launch companies seek niches to compete with SpaceX rideshare.
CLIMATE SCIENTIST MICHAEL MANN WINS HIS LAWSUIT, with $1 in compensatory damages from Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn. However, the jury awarded $1000 punitive damages against Simberg, and $1 million against Steyn. D.C. Jury. People on the right need to come up with a similarly reflexively sympathetic jurisdiction.
Rand’s thoughts: “I am pleased that the jury found in my favor on half of the statements at issue in this case, including finding my statement that Professor Mann engaged in data manipulation was not defamation. In over a decade of litigation, the sanctions levied against Professor Mann dwarf the judgment against me.”
HMM: Rare 3D Fossil of Trees Older Than Dinosaurs Reveals Bizarre Alien-Like Ancient Forests.
I’m pretty sure the people standing under the tree in the illustration didn’t coexist with the dinosaurs.
I REMEMBER WHEN THE BABYLON BEE WAS A SATIRE SITE, NOT STRAIGHT NEWS:
Man Ruled Too Senile To Stand Trial Still Fine To Run Country https://t.co/vFcfq36IwW pic.twitter.com/CY4EFh8a8F
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024
Plus:
Biden Calls For The President To Step Down https://t.co/eovUyl0fOl pic.twitter.com/vuMmLyRK6R
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024
FASTER, PLEASE: Unlocking Bacterial Self-Destruction to Combat Infections.
21ST CENTURY HEALTH: Can an experimental cell phone app screen coughs for TB? Scientists say ‘yes.’
DRIVING DYSTOPIA: Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren’t Going Over Well. “These strictly enforced Ultra Low Emission Zones never resonated with the public. The very first cameras received complaints, as some local residents realized there was almost no way for them to leave their driveway without encountering one. Before long, cameras started being vandalized or destroyed overnight by individuals wearing masks. This was followed by a 66-percent disapproval rate in a referendum asking whether or not citizens wanted to see ULEZ expansion in 2023. Londoners very clearly did not. But the government moved on with the program anyway and created a situation that now literally requires the hiring of armed guards to protect enforcement cameras from damage.”
This is the spirit of resistance the world needs today.
I HOPE IT WON’T MAKE STUFF UP: Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine.
ALSO THE REST OF THE TIME: Women more likely than men to use antidepressants during late-life divorce.
IMPROVING YOUR MEMORY, AND GIVING YOU MORE WORTH REMEMBERING! Erectile dysfunction drugs may be tied to lower risk of Alzheimer’s.
NOW THIS ACTUALLY IS SMART DIPLOMACY:
Happy Warriors beat Wolf Warriors any day.
What a great message by @USAinHKMacau –
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Remember CCP has one, and only one diplomatic message.. "Shut up". That's all they have. They lose the conversations… so make them talk.. https://t.co/UzqTD85zOD— Mark Simon (@MarkSimonHK) February 8, 2024
PROVIDE FOR TREBLE DAMAGES AND PERSONAL LIABILITY: Bill would compel universities to follow SCOTUS affirmative action ban.
THE FUTURE IS GRIM FOR COLLEGE SPORTS: Dartmouth basketball team can unionize, government official states.
NEW RESPECT FOR Seth Barrett Tillman. He’s a smart guy and he convinced me years ago with his and Josh Blackman’s take on officers of the United States, which turns out to matter now.
THE WAGES OF TAKING YOUR MBA TO WAR: “Something very predictable happened in our quarter century roadtrip on the way to Tomorrowland; we realized instead we wound up on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride instead. I would like the record to show here in 2QFY24 that this exact problem was discussed in detail back when I was a JO in the mid-1990s. This is not shocking to anyone who is wearing the uniform of a GOFO. They lived the same history I did. We knew we were living a lie that we could sustain a big fight at sea. An entire generation of Flag Officers led this lie in the open and ordered everyone else to smile through it. Ignore your professional instincts, and trust The Smartest People in the Room™.”
PUTTING MORE WOMEN IN CHARGE WOULD PRODUCE A KINDER, GENTLER CULTURE, THEY SAID: Report: Fired USS Lake Erie captain instilled a ‘culture of fear’. “
Capt. Danielle DeFant — who commanded the ship for roughly 14 months — was ousted following an investigation that began after three unnamed subordinates aired grievances about “toxic command climate and/or sexual discrimination.” . . .
In one incident, a conning officer responded to a question from DeFant that was meant for the officer of the deck, causing DeFant to grab him by the collar and reprimand him.
The investigator noted that, in response, DeFant pulled the officer close and whispered something along the lines of, “was I talking to you … You’re not the [OOD] … I was talking to the OOD … don’t ever interrupt me again.”
The Navy has had leadership problems lately. Full report here.
FIGHT THE POWER: Law Prof Presses Male Sex-Bias Allegations In New Suit After Federal Judge Tosses His Title IX Claim. “A professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has filed a new lawsuit against the school stemming from a former associate dean’s alleged comments in 2016 that she didn’t want to see white men teaching anymore in the trial advocacy program that he headed. Law professor David Schott alleges in his Feb. 2 suit that he notified the law school dean of the alleged comments by Viva Moffat, the associate dean of academic affairs. In the years that followed, he was subjected to a ‘steady barrage of adverse actions and false statements,’ the suit contends.”
BORDER BETRAYAL: Impeach Mayorkas? Fifty-two percent agree.
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