People have gone insane. Maybe the new vaccines are totally safe and this guy is a lunatic. But for you younger folks, this guy has a historical analog in the Challenger explosion. In that, a dude named Allan MacDonald told everyone that it was dangerous to launch the shuttle in really cold weather because the rocket boosters were held together with rubber o-rings that shrank when the weather was cold. He was dismissed. And we all saw the results.
Some of you folks may be too young to remember this, but in 2006 there was a case at Duke where a stripper claimed she was raped by 3 men at a Duke Lacrosse party attended by 30 people. Everyone there said it didn’t happen. The DA, Mike Nifong, was in an election and falsified evidence and used that to arrest 3 men. These men were paraded out in front of a gaggle of cameras for televised perp walks and called vile things by the MSM.
88 Duke professors signed a petition with a list of insane demands.
It was an utter shitshow. The DNA evidence was totally false. A judge let the men go. Nifong actually got arrested and disbarred. The media ran with nothing but a narrative for an extended period and then when it fell apart it was like “welp, nothing to see here.”
I worked at a soul crushing white collar job in a big city most of my 20s and 30s. 90% of the men had married a college or grad school sweetheart. Only 20% of the working women were married. As my contemporaries and I hit our early to mid 30s, the batshit insanity of the single women jumped off the charts.
It was unbelievable. I went out occasionally with a few of them and they’d say “oh, I want a good guy and looks or a job aren’t that important” and then if I tried to shoot the shit with some dude and make an introduction it’d be “OMG, he’s so short” or some similar nonsense. I remember explaining “The Wall” to one of them and she stopped talking to me for like a year and then came into my office out of the blue and had a meltdown. “I’m meeting plenty of guys on Tinder but none of them want to commit. What is wrong with them?!?!?!?”
Unless Exxon or someone else can figure out that algae based fuel, bio fuels are a non-starter. Anything produced at scale will require an unfathomable amount of corn or other sugar source. Farming that stuff and moving the product is a very energy intensive process. Refining it is also energy intensive. Then there’s the inconvenient fact that bio fuels are less energy dense than petrochemical fuels so you need to burn 10-20% more to release the same amount of energy. I’d be shocked if this sort of system didn’t produce at least 10% higher emissions than traditional hydrocarbon sources.
Oh, for roughly 30-ish years. There are some people who have heart conditions who legitimately need to reduce fat. But there are 100x more normies who think “low fat” = “healthy.” Look into it at the grocery store. Observe for a while. You’ll see land whales buying everything low fat. Especially ice cream.
And shit that isn’t even low fat is marketed as “1/3rd less fat” or something similar.
The food pyramid. “Low fat” diets. Margarine being pushed in the 70’s-‘90’s that was later determined to be way worse than butter. The whole tobacco business until the 1980’s. Asbestos.
If you want to dig further back the movie Radio Bikini about the men the government sent in to check the aftermath of the nuke tests at Bikini Atoll is pretty enlightening. It’s on YouTube.
It truly is amazing. We need to embrace it. When a biological male wants to infiltrate lesbian groups, we need to cheer that guy on. When a biological male shatters female weightlifting and running records, that guy needs to be praised. Those who complain need to be shouted down. There is no such thing as a slippery slope.
“Your update will be $600 this year. The update includes an extension on the license agreement governing prior vaccinations you received and if you skip the update we will sue you for infringement of our intellectual property.”
Good post. Above my knowledge in many respects so I can’t give a full substantive critique. Ultimately, what it boils down to, IMHO, is that climate is a really complicated multivariate model and we have no clue what the variables are or how adjusting one changes the output in the model. Anyone strenuously claiming otherwise is a fucking charlatan.
The isolation of one or two gases as the main driver of “climate change” and the cacophony of support for it is by no means scientific. It strikes me as almost wholly political.
The average person has no idea what percentage of the atmosphere is CO2 and I’ve heard people when asked on the spot saying anywhere from 20% to 80%. Naturally these are all “I trust the science” people.
Man influences the climate, but man-created water vapor and the widespread use of concrete and asphalt that lock heat in and dissipate it overnight are probably magnitudes more relevant in human impact than CO2 and CH4.
Agreed. Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP have been neutered. They all have a nice amount of proved reserves and have about another decade of production. As courts, regulators and these ESG lunatics shift the companies toward “green” R&D and away from exploration and drilling, Saudi and Russian oil companies are going to fucking mint money. And the Chinese companies will have no global competitors with the scale to exploit the projects outside the OPEC zone.
In 10 years we’re gonna see $150/bbl oil. Maybe higher. It will crush the living standards of the poor.
Microsoft knows to an absolute certainty that their development process would grind to an absolute halt without South Asian, Northeast Asian and white males. Once they realized they weren’t gonna get brownie points for the thousands of cubicles full of Indian dudes, they probably had a meeting and said “fuck it.” I’m sure they have a bunch of programs internally to hire women and blacks, but they’re not gonna let that get anywhere near a material part of the operation.
I spent time there 20-ish years ago and still follow the news a bit. The departure of Abe as PM is a big deal. Abe was an ardent nationalist and the new guy is globo-cuck to the nth degree.
On my last biz trip over there a guy who works for a big industrial company explained their relationships in Asia along these lines: “Every time we negotiate a deal in Korea or China, the counterparty demands concessions as reparations for Japan’s role in WWII. So we had to raise the sticker price 20% so we have something to give, but then we were outside the scope on RFPs. Then, if there is a problem we have to go to their courts and we always lose no matter what and no international trade courts will ever do anything to stop China. Now before we even take a RFP it has to say they won’t negotiate price based on war and that if there is a dispute it has to be resolved in arbitration in neutral venues. Offering any conciliation to China and Korea was the biggest mistake we ever made, even worse than Pearl Harbor, because once people are given something for being a victim they expect something every time they complain which just leads to more and more complaints.”
This dude went to a top school in Japan and a M7 b-school so he’s no dumbass and he didn’t even open up until I told him point blank that I was a huge Orange Man backer and that the “hate” for him was vastly manufactured and overstated by fake news.
He said that among the people who understand the level of subversion going on there is ardent nationalism because they understand how bad Japan is getting screwed by doling out money every time the Koreans or Chinese bitch, but supposedly the younger folks are getting further blue pilled by constant guilt trips and think evergreen payouts will make them stop.
Interesting. I guess if they modified corporate law to eliminate fund-owned shares in calculating voting thresholds that might work. Problem with passing through voting rights is your guy with eight grand in an SPY fund would get at least 500 proxies per year.
I’d let active funds vote because there are alternatives to them and some of them actually want to be activist. But the passive funds, which own a massive amount of the aggregate market cap, are just supposed to be along for the ride.
Nope. Tobacco didn’t have a legal shield until they negotiated the global settlement back when smokes went from like $2 a pack to $4 overnight. It killed all the tertiary companies and the big boys just doubled prices and started funneling cash straight to the states.
Vaccines have wide legal immunity already. You cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer anywhere in the developed world. They pitched it as “hey, when you have a bad disease you’ll need us to take a moonshot and if you’re gonna hold us liable if something goes wrong we aren’t gonna make vaccines.” There is some amount set aside from each vaccine sale that goes into a resolution fund the government runs and if you get fucked up by a vaccine your sole recourse is a claim against that fund.