Category Archives: Social Commentary
Hey, Biden Voters?
Automakers
…are overstepping their boundaries.
“The entire pandemic has felt like an exercise in seeing just how much authority governments and corporations could gradually exert over everyone else.”
Indeed.
Why We Need Fusion
Thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
“We are not threatened by there being too many people. We are threatened by people who think there are too many people.”
Yes.
Why Jews Vote Left
“Follow The Science”
…even though much of it is wrong.
My estimation of people’s understanding of what science is (and their IQ) drops by a lot when I hear them say “I follow the science.”
California Models
I don’t generally care what models think, but in this case I approve this message.
A Cost/Benefit Analysis
…shows that the lockdowns weren’t worth it.
Surprising me not at all.
[Update a while later]
They need it to continue their tyranny.
Thanks, Facebook!
…for helping the Taliban overrun Afghanistan. And thanks to our brilliant intelligence community that did nothing to stop it.
The Latest Salvo Against Innovation
The usual suspects want to end the learning period for commercial spaceflight.
As George points out, it is not obvious that making people wear pressure suits doesn’t add more hazards than it reduces. We don’t make everyone on an airliner wear a parachute. We minimize the possibility that they’ll need one. Just design to vehicle to have a low probability of unexpectedly depressurizing. We know how to do this much better today than we did in the sixties.