You shoulda shoveled it for her. https://t.co/31m9zX4KS8
— Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) January 9, 2022
All posts by Rand Simberg
JWST
Deployment complete.
I’m glad it worked, but I would not have done it that way. I’d have used those billions to develop technology for assembling large space structures. This is the first, and probably last origami telescope. Future instruments will be built in space.
“Progressive” America
Is it coming to an end?
We can hope. I would note to Joel, though, that Greg Gutfeld isn’t a conservative; he’s a libertarian.
The Latest California Insanity
The Democrats want to double the taxes. Who in the world would they expect to want to do business there?
GETTR’s Moment
I’m going to open an account.
Corona virus And Sense Of Smell
The Absurd Melodrama Of 1/6
Thoughts from Instapundit and Glenn Greenwald.
I cannot figure out if Glenn Greenwald has changed, or I have, but I agree with him much more than I used to.
[Update a few minutes later]
Seven lies about the event.
Only seven?
[Update a few more minutes later]
[Update a while later]
Eight times leftists broke into government buildings and “assaulted democracy.”
[Update a while later]
I do not believe this story.
The Zero-Covid Problem
It never made sense, and they’re starting to recognize it (partly because they know how much failure to do so will accentuate the electoral disaster for the Democrats in ten months). But they’ll never apologize:
After two years of this exhausting disaster, it does finally seem as if the light is appearing through the dark fog. We are slouching our way to endemicity. Over time, too, the wisdom and reasonableness of the Great Barrington Declaration will be widely granted. Not yet but in time.
It’s too bad that we aren’t hearing apologies. We aren’t hearing people admit that they were wrong. We are seeing none of these experts who said they would give us a Covid-free world if we just let them control our lives and take our liberties. I do think such apologies right now would take the country and the world a long way down the path to healing.
What we have instead is a traumatized people who wonder what the heck hit them for the last two years. It’s bad enough to deal with a nasty virus. It’s far worse to deal with the sudden end of the stream of life as we know it and then have nothing to show for it.
One thing we may have to show for it is a dramatically new Congress.
[Update a while later]
The laptop class gets covid.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Dan Hannan: We must accept this as an endemic disease.
[Update Wednesday afternoon]
This Joe Rogan interview is amazing. The pharmas planned it. And our public-health authorities (and the media) are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands because they discouraged treatment.
[Bumped]
[Thursday-afternoon update]
As he notes, the primary task at this point is to regain our liberty, but I don’t trust the current government officials to allow it. We’ll simply have to take them back.
The Russian ASAT Debris
Approaching C?
This probably won’t work, but it’s worth taking a look at.