PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Colossal X-class solar flare erupts from ‘rule-breaking’ sunspot and Earth is in the firing line.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 15, 2024
WELL, YES, AND IT WOULD:
Implicit in this argument is the assumption that taking questions from the media would make Kamala Harris less likely to win the election. https://t.co/Fxs1xK9c8l
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) August 14, 2024
For 3 weeks the MSM, which is actually State Media, lied based on the words of anonymous staffers and told you Kamala Harris was now a “moderate,”only to have her to go full blown communist before she even officially becomes the nominee.
— David Giglio (@DavidGiglioCA) August 15, 2024
She could try learning from a successful leader: Newsweek: Javier Milei Got Rid of Rent Control in Argentina. Housing Supply Skyrocketed.
UPDATE:
A few months ago, the Media wouldn't stop talking about how Kamala needed to be replaced on the Biden ticket because she was dragging him down.
Now, we're all supposed to suspend our disbelief while the same Media tells us that Kamala is now amazing.
My flabbers are ghasted.
— Joey Meugniot (@realjoeymUS) July 28, 2024
JACK MCWILLIAMS, CREATOR OF “JOGGING IN A JUG,” SMILES: Vinegar Has a Surprising Effect on Depression, Study Finds.
Flashback: Ask Well: Can Vinegar Aid Weight Loss? “The weight loss claims hinge mostly on a 2009 clinical trial of obese Japanese adults that found those who consumed a beverage containing one or two tablespoons of vinegar every day lost two to four pounds after 12 weeks, while a comparison group given a plain beverage did not lose weight. . . . Several studies have shown that consuming small amounts of vinegar before a meal containing starches may blunt a rise in blood sugar afterward, reducing the glycemic response by 20 to 40 percent, Dr. Johnston said, by partially inhibiting the digestion of starch.”
Plus: “I’m curious to see how much vinegar was consumed by people 50-100 years ago, and our ancestors who used it as a primary food preservative. Pickles anyone?” I wonder if the switch to refrigeration led to lower levels of vinegar in the diet, and hence to the midcentury jump in heart disease? Purely speculative, of course, but interesting.
JEFFREY CARTER: Harris And The Teleprompter Spoke: Maybe We Should Worry.
AND YET WE’VE SPENT 20 YEARS DEVELOPING ANTI-AMYLOID MEDS: The Real Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Not Be Amyloid: Groundbreaking Discovery Challenges Decades-Old Theories.
Flashback: Study: Decreased proteins, not amyloid plaques, are tied to Alzheimer’s disease.
Well, the amyloid-plaque theory has issues: “A now-seminal study published in 2006 provided evidence that the toxic accumulation of a protein called beta-amyloid in the brain was tied to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, an assistant professor from Vanderbilt University suggested that some of the images in this study were manipulated by the authors.”
IN 2024 THIS COUNTS AS A BOLD POSITION: Actually, Interviewing Presidential Candidates Is a Good Thing.
WAIT, I THOUGHT WORRIES ABOUT CHEMICALS IN SUNSCREEN WERE ANTI-SCIENCE CONSPIRACY THEORIES: Chemicals in makeup, sunscreen may increase risk of pregnancy complications.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Iron Sights Still Matter.
THINGS THAT YOU BUY SHOULD BE YOURS FOREVER. Even if it’s disguised as a “license.” Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content.
Buy physical media while you still can.
I THINK WE’RE DOING TO BE HORRIFIED ABOUT HOW WE’VE BEEN TREATING UNCONSCIOUS AND COMATOSE PEOPLE: International study detects consciousness in unresponsive patients with severe brain injury.
Related: “I wonder if it’s because of the emerging technology that this research on unresponsive persons is happening. Are we just now learning things we could have learned before but those who control the research didn’t want to know?”
MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE OLD ENOUGH KNOW THIS FIRST-HAND: Study: Your body experiences ‘massive’ biomolecular changes in your 40s and 60s.
GOOD SUM-UP:
REREAD S.M. STIRLING’S Island In The Sea Of Time and stayed up finishing it last night, inspired by his latest, To Turn The Tide. Held up well, starting the sequel tonight.
THEY BELIEVE THAT RIGHTS AREN’T ABSOLUTE, BUT POWER IS:
What we are seeing is precisely why the West was such an anomaly in the history of mankind. Specifically, the reflex to suppress speech with which the rulers/elite disagree is the default reflex, and we are seeing a return to it. The West is facing the classic Herculean fork in… https://t.co/oW1oxraPkQ
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 10, 2024
Related:
Wokeism is a psyop designed to destroy basic definitions to undermine rational discourse and divide people. When people are unable to use speech to resolve conflicts, then their only alternative is force, and in the domain of force The State is unrivaled.pic.twitter.com/G9WliqF3fI
— Robert ₿reedlove (@Breedlove22) August 13, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Conservative Professor On Academe’s Political Conformity.
IT’S JUST THE NEIGHBORLY THING TO DO: Tax Harvard to pay for trade jobs, experts say.
GOOD QUESTION: Did Biden Send Officials to Tehran and Reveal Mossad Agents Who Killed Hamas Leader?
If true, this would be a shocking betrayal of our ally in uncountable ways. And unfortunately, while the accusation is so shocking that we should maintain a healthy skepticism, I believe it is quite possibly true.
Iran, of course, has very good reasons to lie, and they are hardly a trustworthy source for news about the United States or Israel. Convincing the Israelis that the United States betrayed them and has helped roll up an Israeli spy ring would be a very useful bit of disinformation, creating an almost irreparable split between the US and Israel.
The two countries share intelligence, and if the Israelis believe that the United States would give up Israeli intelligence assets to the source of most of the evil in the region and the deadliest enemy of the Jewish state, the damage would be incalculable. . . .
Unfortunately, a Biden move like this is at least credibly possible because the Biden administration has funneled billions of dollars to Iran and has been trying to forge an implicit alliance in the region. It is not a military alliance, of course, but a security understanding of how relations get more normalized.
They have, in the process, given Iran carte blanche to attack US troops and interests in the region and allowed Iran great latitude to attack our allies, including Israel, without serious consequences.
So, is this report possibly accurate? Of course, it is.
Is it accurate? I have no idea, either whether it is true or how we could ever find out.
Someone knows, but they’re not telling.
RIGGED:
Every popular AI chat system leans politically left, reflecting the Leftism of the AI industry. https://t.co/1Q2RU3jEmz pic.twitter.com/PgAplYA8Av
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) August 14, 2024
IT’S ENOUGH THAT ELON MUSK HAS BEEN DECLARED AN ENEMY OF THE REGIME: “Fintan O’Toole’s solution for what ails these islands is that Elon Musk be ‘held personally to the same standards of criminal justice’ as others. Here, O’Toole recommends state imposed criminal sanctions for Musk’s speech and for Musk’s permitting others to speak on Twitter (now X). But O’Toole never explains what specific speech by Musk is at issue, and more importantly, what specific Irish or EU law was violated by that speech.”
THE GENTRY CLASS BUREAUCRATS ARE TRYING TO FORTIFY THEIR POSITIONS HERE AND ABROAD: America is turning into the EU: Democrats are steering the US towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline.