Ummmmm…no.
The media hysteria is also mistaken (as always) in imagining that NASA human spaceflight has (and has ever had) much to do with science.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Stormy Daniels
Well, this should be the final nail in the coffin of Avenatti’s presidential ambitions. How could he ever win without this great woman standing behind him?
The CDC
Its gun data is getting even moreless reliable.
That’s pretty bad, since it’s never been reliable, or trustworthy as a basis for policy.
Free-Market Meat
Some thoughts on the tradeoffs with animal cruelty. I would love to get pork in a cruelty-free way, and I’d vastly prefer factory-manufactured steak and bacon, if it was indistinguishable in every way from that obtained by killing cattle and pigs.
[Update a while later]
This seems related, somehow: Vegan “pork” rinds.
I disagree with this, though:
Apparently, the gourmands have discovered pork rinds. Yes, the deep-fried, not at all good for you, salt-laden, very high fat, treat found rarely if ever outside the US South or (as chicharones) where there is a sizeable Mexican consumer pool.
They’re actually quite keto, because low carb (close to zero). There’s nothing wrong with high fat, as long as it’s not seed oils.
Venezuela
The collapse is near.
Via Stephen Green, who writes: “We’re watching the last chapter of Atlas Shrugged play out in Venezuela in realtime.”
Yes, it was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaand the water plants have shut down.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Trump’s biggest challenge: Educating the kids on socialism. We shouldn’t have to do this, but the schools clearly haven’t. And unfortunately, that’s no accident.
The 737 Max 8 Crashes
They may have been caused by “safety” “features.”
Gee, someone should write a book about that sort of thing.
Oh, wait
[Update a while later]
That is to say, the learning period currently set to expire in 2023 (I think) for the FAA (or whoever) to not regulate mission assurance should be extended indefinitely. Guess I should op-ed that.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 12, 2019
[Mid-morning update]
And it's equally unclear at this point (at least to me) whether it's a bad design or a crew-training issue (did they RTFM?), though the fact that there have been no such incidents in the US suggests the latter.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 12, 2019
[Afternoon update]
An interesting perspective.
[Update a while later]
State owned @FijiAirways cannot afford to ground their #737MAX – they taken a billion dollars out of compulsory superannuation fund for their wish list. Grounding would bankrupt airline … even the state itself…. pic.twitter.com/SumhqSDRuM
— Michael Field (@MichaelFieldNZ) March 12, 2019
S3x Bucket Lists
This seems a little weird to me. I’ve never done it in a car, and if I did, it would have only been because it was the only place available (which was in fact the case for many teenagers in the mid-20th century). I also don’t get the “in a body of water” thing.
White House Behavior
Democrat presidents have behaved much worse than Trump. Yes.
A New Space Project To Mars
In New Zealand. Entirely by women. Hey, more power to them.
Welcome To Intersectional Brotherhood Week
It’s not much of an improvement on National Brotherhood Week, but everyone still hates the Jooz. And so the saga continues. It won’t end well.