If your public school is telling you to attend a CRT struggle session, simply tell them that you don’t identify as white. Then watch them twist themselves into logical knots attempting to describe why they don’t believe you. It will drive them nuts, because the whole point of the exercise is to accuse you of white supremacy and white privilege, and if you deny being white, how can they do that without revealing their own intrinsic anti-white racism? After all, the only basis they have for it is the supposed color of your skin (these days, even if you’re Asian).
David Hogg’s Pillow Factory
You’d have to have a heart of stone to read this, and not laugh out loud.
NASA And The Rise Of Commercial space
This looks like an interesting symposium this week. Hard to believe that it’s been eight years since my book was published.
The “Covid Relief” Bill
…is (among many other things) an IRS assault on low-income people.
Meritocracy Versus Idiocracy
Why China is winning.
Not very encouraging.
De Jure And De Facto Censorship
Why we have to be worried about both.
Piano Problem
We have an older-model electronic Yamaha piano. While I had the living-room wall open for various wire run, I decided to run an RCA cable from the piano location to our home-theater receiver, so we could hear the piano output in the home-theater speakers, instead of the built-in ones.
Lo and behold, though, when I plugged it into the headphone jack on the instrument, there was a distinct delay between hitting the key and hearing the sound, which makes it difficult to play. Why would there be any latency? This seems like it would be a problem using headphones with it as well. It seems like the only solution may be hack into the thing, to tap the speaker wires directly, and match the impedance somehow, maybe with transformers.
21st-Century Problems
Remote hijacking of “smart” sex toys?
The Key To Immortality
As always, I’ll note that I don’t want to be immortal; I just want to live as long as I want to live.
System Engineers
What happens when they don’t negotiate requirements:
Read the thread for other examples.