More from Allison Duettmann, who is co-writing what looks to be an interesting new book with Mark Miller (who I haven’t seen in years).
If you have the time, the next in the playlist is a salon with her and Aubrey De Grey on the value of life extension, but it’s a little over an hour. Foresight has put a lot of videos on line recently from its Vision Weekend last year.
…is not over.
It will never be. It is too seductive an argument, and appeals to human nature in the ignorance of it.
As a resident, I can attest. Not sure how much longer we’ll stay here, though there are signs that perhaps the Democrats have overreached.
What they don’t tell you, of course, is that while the state is technically in surplus currently, it has unfunded liabilities of hundreds of billions in pensions. California is a poster child for what happens when you let uninformed innumerate idiots vote.
A major contractor for California’s HSR was told to shut up about its problems. I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am.
[Afternoon update]
Of course Joe Biden wants to take your guns away. Despite his own BS, he doesn’t support the Second Amendment.
An interesting comparison and the value of social distancing.
Thoughts on the evil of normalizing Marxism.
Bernie isn’t just misguided; he’s evil. There should be just as much opprobrium for having a Che poster or teeshirt as there would be for a Hitler poster or teeshirt, but the cultural Marxists’ Gramscian march through the institutions has been successful. At the suborbital researchers conference last week in Broomfield, CO, I was talking to a professor of physiology from Brandeis. She was a refusenik who managed to get out of Leningrad in the early eighties. She was appalled that the Democrats were on the verge of nominating a communist apologist.
Regular consumption of hard liquor may provide protection against the coronavirus.
It would be ironic if drinking Corona itself did so.