I was introduced to Allison a couple years ago, but only briefly. I really only got to know her a few days ago, at a Foresight event on lunar governance. I hadn’t realized that she was so interested in space.
Anyway, she is a brilliant and very charismatic young woman, as this video demonstrates.
It’s unsurprising that they would churn out dangerous leftists.
[Update a while later]
Bernie Sanders, the time-warp socialist.
…is destroying the planet. But, hey, at least it’s terrible for you, nutritionally.
…and asks for food.
Why can’t it produce national leaders any more?
Because it’s become a political loony bin?
No, there is no scientific reason to think that plant-based diets are healthier than meat-based ones, or healthy at all.
Our western self hatred.
Britain somehow carries on:
Ever since David Cameron announced a referendum on Britain’s EU membership in February 2016, the British people have been issued the direst imaginable warnings. Before the referendum, the then–chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, among others, predicted an immediate recession in the U.K. if the voters were unwise enough to disregard his instructions and vote to leave the EU. But we did disregard his instructions, as we did those of the prime minister and the heads of all the other major parties. We disregarded everybody, in fact, who warned us that our future would be darker, poorer, more ignorant, and more insular. In June 2016 we voted to leave the EU.
For a variety of reasons that arose after that decision (not least the ineptitude of Theresa May’s government and her minority rule after the 2017 election), the scare stories stepped up. The warned-of recession was claimed to have merely been deferred. And the financial threats were the least of it. The media and politicians on the Remain side upped the volume on all their dire warnings. Disappointment and rage about losing the referendum were transferred into a number of vitriolic behaviors, but most prominent amongst them was the claim of increased insularity.
Media, including a new, strange propaganda paper called the New European, offered the British public “farewell tours” to the Continent. Such publications strongly suggested that once Britain left the EU, we Brits would be unable to visit again. We would return to where we were before we entered the Common Market in 1975. And as centuries of literature and history attest, until 1975 nobody from Britain ever went to the Continent. In fact, prior to 1975 we had been a strange, hobbit-like people, famously incurious about abroad and choosing never to visit the place.
RTWT
A review from a friend:
***** and I went to the WW2 museum in New Orleans. Brand new, big, still expanding, expensive and boring. The Germans and Japanese were bad; Roosevelt was good; it was all very sad.
Nothing about the Hitler Stalin pact. Nothing about the role the CP played to keep us neutral, until Uncle Joe got attacked. And Roosevelt’s concentration camps? The American people did it, not Roosevelt’s executive order (funny how that works).
It was shallow, not much to look at (the captions and film shorts looked like they were written for Sesame Street), and relentlessly politically correct.
I usually think I will spend an hour or two in a museum, and end up spending the whole day; this time, we payed parking for the whole day, and left after two hours.
Not recommended.But, we had dinner in the Neon Pig restaurant in Tupelo. Best hamburger in the world!
Well, glad he enjoyed the burger.