HAVEN’T WE KNOWN THIS FOR A LONG TIME? Arm position during blood pressure check may lead to wrong reading, study finds.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 8, 2024
A LOOK AT THE 2026 Toyota RAV4.
I SHOT ONE OF THESE YEARS AGO, AND HONESTLY THE RECOIL WASN’T BAD: Gun Review: The Magnum Research Desert Eagle is 50 Caliber Perfection. That’s no doubt because it’s huge and heavy. (It weighs nearly 4 1/2 pounds empty, much more when loaded). It’s also because the .50AE cartridge, while powerful, isn’t as powerful as you probably think.
I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY MARTIAN SUVs: Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Marijuana use linked to worse school outcomes for teens.
NOW HE’S CONNECTING PEOPLE’S CELLPHONES TO SATELLITES:
Larry Ellison: You're saying Elon's an idiot. The guy's landing rockets! And who are you?
"Elon doesn't know what he's doing, he'll have to go out for money, I'm really smart, I work for the Wall Street Journal …
Who are you? This guy's landing rockets. You know, he's landing… pic.twitter.com/XaKeNbEJgN
— ELON DOCS (@elon_docs) October 4, 2024
Best part: “I’m really smart, I work for the Wall Street Journal.” “I’m smart, not like everybody says, like dumb! I’m smart!”
That was in 2018. Now: SpaceX Starlink Has 227 Direct to Cellphone Capable Satellites. “The Direct to Cell network leverages the infrastructure they have built for Starlink over the past several years. Direct to Cell satellites plug into the existing Starlink satellite constellation via laser backhaul; meaning even our early satellites can provide services anywhere with regulatory approvals without requiring dedicated ground infrastructure. They also leverage all the existing networking, ground stations, and Points of Presence (PoPs) Starlink has developed. The Direct to Cell data travels over Starlink’s core directly to the operator’s core, providing a seamless integration.”
They’re going to activate direct to cell service in Florida after Hurricane Milton strikes, too.
Think how much more they could be doing if Elon were as smart as a WSJ reporter. . . .
TO BE HONEST, DENTISTS WERE FOOLS TO ENDORSE FLUORIDE, IT WRECKED THEIR CAVITY-FILLING BUSINESS MODEL: Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk, to dentists’ dismay. “A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of fluoride, which is added to the tap water of around 200 million Americans.”
2024, summarized: You’re sitting in a ballpark, watching a baseball game. The person sitting next to you has a radio, tuned to the play-by-play announcer. You watch the batter drill a line drive up the left field line. The third baseman dives for it, missing, and the batter races around first and keeps going, as the third base umpire throws out an arm to signal that it’s a fair ball. “A swing and a miss for strike three,” the announcer says on the radio. “That’s Ohtani’s second strikeout of the game.” You squint at the radio. “That’s not true,” you say, pointing at the field. “He’s sliding into second.” An usher comes running down the stairs. “Excuse me!” he shouts. “We have a zero-tolerance policy for disinformation! Do I need to call security?”
On October 4, the relentlessly appalling Anne Applebaum hosted a podcast at The Atlantic website on the topic of American freedom. . . .
Opening the discussion, Applebaum and co-host Peter Pomerantsev “explain” that there are two competing models of freedom in the American past. One model is adherence to American political norms, centered on submission to the authority of the federal government. Read this carefully: . . . Freedom is choosing who rules you.
Plus: “Just a few days ago, I argued that whole layers of high-status American political and cultural figures are ‘no longer culturally American.’ They don’t see the country, they don’t like the country, and they don’t have the most basic American instincts.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN (CONT’D): ‘Our martyrs’: Chicago college students rally for ‘Gaza:’ Pro-Palestinian activists are organizing walkouts and rallies in support of Israel’s attackers.
Remember, these groups are demonstrating, and often vandalizing and assaulting, in support of Hamas, a designated terror group that is currently holding Americans hostage.
REMINDER:
Two democrats have taken shots at Trump due to the rhetoric and language used by Democrats and yourself.
Yet when we accurately say that people have tried to kill him you blame him.
You are not a serious person.
— Ross Schumann (@RossSchumann) October 6, 2024
FROM YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT TO GOD’S EAR:
I can’t believe I’m saying this.
60 Minutes just ended Kamala Harris’ campaign
This is excruciating
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2024
There is no coming back from this.
CBS: You’re an illegitimate candidate
Kamala: I’m protecting democracy
CBS: You’re destroying democracy
Kamala: Just wait…pic.twitter.com/XIiWxBPl89
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2024
FAD ENDS, BUBBLE DEFLATES: Toyota Joins Ford and Other Major Companies Scaling Back DEI Commitments.
This is why the grifters — *cough* Ta-Nehisi Coates *cough* — are switching from “anti-racism” to the ever-popular anti-semitism. There’s always money in that. Especially these days.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT THESE STORIES WERE MISINFORMATION: A Troubled Place: In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.
IT’S COME TO THIS: FEMA hurricane aid stopped by ‘Road Closed’ sign? That’s Kamala Harris in a nutshell. “Yes, per on-the-ground reports out of tiny Bat Cave, NC, which was absolutely smashed by the storm, FEMA refused to enter the town because its workers are ‘not allowed’ to drive around a sign announcing a road closure. Even though the road was drivable, according to residents: just ‘officially’ closed. . . . Add in reports of authorities shutting down private-citizen rescue efforts — like that undertaken by heroic local helicopter pilot Jordan Seidhom.”
ANDREA WOULD DISENFRANCHISE BOTH IF SHE COULD: Liberal Media Scream: Andrea Mitchell whines men and business supporting Trump.
MATT TAIBBI: FOIA Files: Arizona State University: Our latest FOIA disclosures reveal that the Department of State was issuing grants to “anti-disinformation” researchers at ASU. Pretty clearly a domestic censorship scheme.
MEN ARE EXPENDABLE:
Call Her Daddy Girl: “Are there any laws that give the government control over a man’s body?”
Kamala Harris: “No”
The correct answer is the draft
pic.twitter.com/zEIUV9mMZN— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 6, 2024
ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Columbia Student Protesters Celebrate Hamas on Anniversary of Attack. “Here’s the pro-Hamas student group. I’m not hearing any chants for a ceasefire. They are chanting ‘Intifada, people’s war.’ These Columbia students support Hamas. Notice their faces are all covered.”
October 7, 2024
I NOTE, THOUGH, THAT NO ONE HAS SHOWN WHAT SHE SAID TO BE FALSE: NY Times Op-Ed: Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.