If there is so much racism in America, why do white people want to be not white? Why are they giving up their supposed “privilege”?
I heard an interview with Mike Shellenberger the other day in which he pointed out that if he declared himself to be a woman, his lefty friends would encourage him, but if he claimed to be black, they’d denigrate him. Yet (as he pointed out) he has a much more biologically in common with a black man than with any woman.
An interesting essay by Noah Smith.
This seems to me to be related to Haidt’s discovery that conservatives can predict leftist behavior/beliefs much better than vice versa.
“Ve haff vays uff getting you vaxed.”
Thoughts from Wretchard on the coming end of instantaneous communications.
We’re driving up to the Bay Area to attend this event this weekend. I’ll have the laptop, but probably not much time to post.
Glenn Reynolds says that we have to watch out for China.
I haven’t read the OIG report on commercial space stations yet, but Jeff Foust has.
I’m not as pessimistic. If Starship works as planned, it will completely change the way we’d build space facilities, and make them cheaper and faster.
Patricia heard a noise in the middle of the night that she described as “gnashing of teeth.” When I went out to look at the pond this morning, it was almost empty, with a couple of the large rocks that line the edge of it having fallen into it, and apparently having cut the liner. Likely it was a raccoon trying to get the fish, who tipped the rocks over and fell in. Fortunately, at least some of the fish, including the one koi, are still in the bottom, but I’m going to have to find and repair the leak before I can refill it, and with fish in it, I’m going to have to neutralize the chlorine when I add water. And it’s a chilly day to be dealing with it.
Late-afternoon update]
Well, if I have a leak, it isn’t in the pond. I added some water that had been sitting overnight in a bucket to evaporate off the chlorine, and it didn’t go down. If it doesn’t go down overnight, I’ll turn the stream back on and see if that’s where the leak is.
[Friday-morning update]
The pond didn’t go down overnight, but when I turned on the stream, I found the leak. It was backing up to the beginning of it, beyond the liner.