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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Rover Update
Bob Zimmerman has the latest in activity on both the moon and Mars. Looks like we’ve lost an Opportunity, so to speak.
The Covington “Scandal”
What happened to the Covington kids is a signpost on how rapidly the Left, weaponized by social media, can come up with its latest Goldstein. Unfortunately, the face generated a lot more than two minutes of hate.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
Going on well over 20,000 days without advocating the punching of anyone. And this is another example of how when Leftists accuse sane people of being "hateful" and "violent" it's nothing but projection. https://t.co/omlC2l9jGh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
Let us all celebrate the life of the man who dreamed of a day that we judge people by not the color of their skin, but the content of their character, by hating young white males.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
[Mid-afternoon update]
More from Treacher.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Mark Steyn: The drumbeat of the mob.
[Update a few minutes later]
Robby Soave has viewed all of the video, and discovered who the real (ignorant) racist is:
The Native American man says, “Go back to Europe where you came from. This is not your land, you have been here two, three generations compared to us. We’ve been here a million fucking years.” The MAGA teen responds, “That’s not true. Let’s go all the way back to Africa,” and proceeds to tell the story of the land bridge that once connected Asia to North America, which allowed humans to settle these lands some thousands of years ago. (His opponent counters that this a “bullshit theory.”)
Keep in mind, the teen saying that all human beings originally came from Africa is a member of the group of young people initially described by countless pundits as obviously, undeniably racist.
Leftists have to have had their sense of irony excised at birth.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The 48-hour rule. Maybe it should be 72.
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[Update a while later]
What’s happening to those kids is vile.
It is. I was just listening to Glenn Beck on the way back dropping Patricia off at the bus stop. He was playing the audio of the horrific things that the “black Israelites” (or whatever the hell those monsters are) were saying about killing white people and raping women and making them their concubines, that no one in the media seems to think is a big deal. He made the point that Social Justice Warriors don’t give a damn about justice. They’re Social Vengeance Warriors.
[Update a while later]
Lawyer for Covington Catholic gives the media a 48-hour ultimatum.
And “Dear Covington boys: Everyone failed you.” Well, not everyone, but most.
Plus, Ross Douthat debates Ross Douthat.
The Stainless-Steel Starship
I would note, though, that the idea of transpiration cooling has been around for a long time. It’s just never been implemented. But I guess what he’s saying has never been proposed before is the structure also serving as heat shield.
[Update a while later]
New Glenn has been redesigned. Looks like the upper stage is expendable.
Looks like they were inspired in part by Falcon 9. It’s interesting that we’re starting to see spacecraft designs converging, as aircraft designs did in the thirties.
Star Trek Discovery
I haven’t seen it, but it looks like the first season was dreadful, because it had to be woke.
Mike’s Nature Trick
An explanation for Scott Adams (note Steve McIntyre’s suggestion in comments).
Ocean Warming
No, it’s probably not accelerating faster than we thought.
[Early-afternoon update]
Modern warming was driven primarily by “primarily natural” factors; the cooling has begun.
Eating Fatbergs
Here’s a yucky sewer story, but it doesn’t answer the first question that came to mind as I was reading it: What do these bacteria excrete?
Technological Progress
…and the global sex recession.
As the machines get better, this is just going to get worse.
Disagreeing With DC Conventional Wisdom
…isn’t a crime, let alone an impeachable offense. It is time to rethink NATO, perhaps past time.
NATO and the EU have been free riding for a long time. It was an organization for a different era and power structure. Putin’s Russia doesn’t have the resources to conquer Europe, especially if they start getting serious about their own defense.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Yes. Europe was never a true partner in its own defense. They had a (brief) excuse in the midst of the Marshall Plan, but we’ve been indulging them in their own socialism and unwillingness to spend on their own defense for the decades since recovery. Time to rethink it.
And for those who think that Trump is Putin’s “stooge,” did Putin order him to insist that Europeans spend more on their own defense and live up to their NATO obligations?
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