Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts, and suggestions for improving it.
Trump Defenders
No, it’s not “treason,” and it’s probably not even illegal, but yes, it was wrong.
But then…
It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that the Trump family is extremely ethics challenged. They are, after all, lifelong Democrats.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 12, 2017
“Male Feminist Gamers”
Really, “male” “feminist” gamers. They keep using those words together. I’m not sure they mean what they think they mean.
Graphics Cards
This is interesting. I hadn’t realized that demand for them has been driven by cryptocurrency miners, not gamers.
That SFO Near-Disaster
Wow, four wide bodies on the taxi-way. This could have been worse than Tenerife. Hard to believe that was four decades ago.
Neutralizing North Korea
Trump’s six options for dealing with it. They’re all terrible.
The Last Astronaut Class?
A. J. Mackenzie has run the numbers on the probability of the new hires flying, given NASA’s current (lack of) plans.
The cynic in me says that the only reason to apply is for a chance to get some training to fly in the private sector.
Defeating Aging
…using AI?
Faster, please.
Sweden
The terrifying way in which it’s killing itself:
This is a country where rapes by Muslim men are systematically ignored by the authorities or responded to with minimal punishment. Routinely, Swedish courts refuse to return these monsters – some of whom have repeatedly subjected small boys and girls to violent sexual abuse – to their home countries for fear that they’ll be put in danger. In other words, Swedish judges care more about the safety of foreign rapists than that of Swedish children.
Across the straights, Denmark seems to be trying to be more sensible.
The War Of Ideas
The Democrats and the Left are losing it, because they don’t have any ammunition. And really, have they come up with any new ideas in the past half century? Governments running peoples’ lives is as old as civilization itself.
[Late-morning update]
Who killed the Left?
The only thing one can be sure of is that the Republican Party didn’t cause it; nor did their tame and feeble publications. In fact, not even publications like Breitbart, valiant though their efforts were, can claim credit. Trump couldn’t have done it either, since the proud tower that Gerlenter describes would have been impervious to the mere touch of the orange-hued real estate mogul without some other factor in play.
Yet most of us know who did it, though we hesitate to name the obvious suspect. The Left, even in its downfall, has stilled our tongues. The word comes to the edge of our lips before we choke it back, fearful even now of the ridicule and abuse we will get should we blurt it. That word is God. God killed the Left. Of course one could legitimately use some other term. “Reality,” “consequences,” the “laws of nature,” “economics,” even “truth” will do. Through some process of increasing entropy, failed memory management, or unanticipated side effects, the status quo — the one dominated by the Left — is collapsing.
Not fast enough. And sadly, there is something in human nature, in our envy, our greed, our self righteousness, our lust for power, to which their toxic ideas appeal.