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     Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/ano ther-horrible-food-idea.php When the scientists that created this zombie chimera from mixing mammoth and elephant DNA, say they won't eat it because they don't know what a human immune system will do... Aka, we don't want to die... Then I don't think you have a viable commercial product. Nifty piece of work, though! I'm all for bringing back the Mammoth. They coexisted with man for a long time. There were mammoths walking around and occasionally being diner for a whole tribe, when an Egyptian scientist figured out not only that the Earth was a ball, but fairly accurately figured out how big. Just to be cautious, I wouldn't start raising mammoths in Africa or India, where modern elephants live. Cross breeds may be...problematic. But, sure, raise some in Nebraska and the Dakotas, and I'll try a mammoth steak. I figure they're delicious, for obvious reasons. I'll pre order some jerky if you got a kickstarter! But I'm going to wait until vat grown meat is well proven, tested, and the FDA has sanitation and processing standards. My grandfather was a butcher. It's an important job. Food safety is serious. ( there are restaurant chains I won't eat at because their suppliers repeatedly shipped feces contaminated lettuce. ) I'll further PREDICT that someone is going to be allergic to mammoth, just as some are allergic to Impossible Burgers, and some are allergic to penicillin. Does Not mean we should not have these things. It's just a fact you have to accept and take into account. Oh, and don't bring back dinosaurs. How many movies now? | ||
| Ratbuell |
and the FDA has sanitation and processing standards. Not for me, thanks. These are the people who want to start jabbing our FOOD with mRNA covid 'vaccine', to infect those of us who remain pureblooded. Screw that. I'll shop locally, thanks. | ||
| Aesquire |
Locally? So they don't wash their hands after going to the restroom and then prepare your food? That's what I mean by FDA sanitation standards. Don't let feces get on your steaks. Sterilize the milk pasteurization tank between batches. Don't sneeze in the chicken breast you're stuffing for the frozen food aisle... Now, as to contaminating our food with drugs on purpose ( I'm not talking treating cows with antibiotics, which is a separate issue perhaps worth comment ) I'm on your side, F#$% that. Especially an experimental gene altering drug that needs a lot of study on side effects, now that millions of humans have been made test gerbils. I'm not the biggest fan of any Federal Agency, but I'm for RATIONAL rules on cleanliness in food and drug production. And ( arguing against myself, maybe ) I'm aware that the Pennsylvania State food agency was run by some dick that hated the Amish. And banned not homogenized milk. So I can't buy my favorite chocolate milk. | ||
| Ratbuell |
So you're assuming that locals don't have the common sense to wash hands and keep facilities clean? That's a pretty big leap, there... I don't know about you, but locals where *I* am take HUGE pride in what they do, and they do it RIGHT. Food, construction, agriculture, whatever. I trust locals more than ANY government agency. knock-knock. "We're from the government, and we're here to help." SLAM. | ||
| Aesquire |
I failed to be clear, sorry. I just mean I like sewers, some rational regulation so it's not like China or Libya when You can buy slaves and organs from political prisoners. That's the extreme, of course, but Wuhan wet markets, who got slandered a... Little bit by the Panicdemic liars. Be nice if the sanitation in the food chain was better, where we get our annual Flu. ( which generally comes from animal feces dried and inhaled, not like, but same Sh#$ as the usual pre washed lettuce recalls for e-coli. ) My "they don't wash their hands" comment wasn't a slam on local businesses, but on rejecting the rational and smart, if rare, actions of government. You want to rip the FDA for some insanity, feel free. Ditto FBI, but just because half of upper management deserves prison doesn't mean kidnapping shouldn't be a Federal Crime so bad guys can't evade justice by crossing an arbitrary jurisdiction boundry.  | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/second-giant-hole-app ears-on-sun-solar-winds-to-hit-earth-this-week | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the -week-in-energy-california-follies-chapter-12186.p hp | ||
| Ratbuell |
Hm. So, climate alarmists...how much tax money will fix THIS??? But as the Sun is gearing up to a peak in activity, which happens about every 11 years, What that says is, the sun has varying output. Which, we have known for quite a while. Put a pizza in the oven. Set it for 350. Then change it to 375. Then 425. Then back to 350. WE, are the pizza - WE will feel different amounts of heat, when the SOURCE of the heat has different levels of output. Duh. So...how is THIS the fault of the human race? Of our cars? Of our "fossil fuel" use (which, in reality, aren't "fossil fuels" but actually MINERALS...). | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/03/29/nasa-b rightest-gamma-ray-burst/4121680137073/ According to the then head of the UNIPCC, the science is not the point. It's changing the economic system. To be clear the Goal is not related to weather, climate, or science. Officially. And by changing the economic system, he means an end to private ownership and rights. Authoritarian rule by the Elite. Period. Re: BOAT, brightest of all time. Glad that was in A different galaxy, this time, not just a few hundred light years away. That's energetic enough to kill all surface life on about 1/3+ the planet. Critters in caves and the ocean floor are probably ok, and the dark hemisphere is probably ok. Really depends on angles. If the gamma radiation comes when the Pacific is facing it, that's a lot of oxygen production killed but relatively few humans, in minutes. 180 degrees opposite, and it's most of the human species. I do "love" how the guesstimate is "a one in the thousand year event". On One hand, we've only been detecting these events for a few decades, at most. Otoh, looking through space is looking back in time, so I suppose you might estimate by observation over a tiny fraction of time. But my bet is it's a "don't panic" choice. And don't panic. There's zip all you can do about it, except study the cosmos until you can predict black hole formation, since the first indication that you're hit by a light speed gamma burst is flashing lights in your head from the nerves being zapped. Way too late to duck. Gamma bursts are a convenient explanation for those mass extinction events that don't line up with an asteroid impact or volcanic eruptions. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/how -to-handle-a-senate-demagogue.php The gloves came off years ago. Climate Crisis is Total Lies. Period. If solving problems was the goal, instead of faking a crisis to steal your money and freedom, then we'd be building Thorium reactors on an assembly line and grid improvement would be the #1 priority, so when everyone drives electric cars, the system would actually work. Also, we'd be exporting them like Japan does pocky. Instead, Joe* is feeding more & more of your children's wealth ( and yours ) to China to please his real employers. And what he's buying is unreliable, short lived "renewable" power generation crud that will be toxic waste here in a depressingly short time. I'll post pics as soon as the Swamp in front of my eyes dries out enough to pull my gasoline powered freedom machine out. Speaking of Chinese crud, you hear about the Belt & Road scam big dam program? Apparently poor QC means more than one may fail catastrophically in a few years. Probably with deaths in the millions. ( developing story ignored by Party Media ) | ||
| Aesquire |
Meanwhile, reality keeps happening. https://www.sciencealert.com/extreme-x-class-solar -flare-hits-earth-causing-radio-blackout Not a big deal for most. I'm waiting for the real apocalypse. "The Neutrinos are mutating!" | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/tim e-for-ev-class-actions.php Disagree, but not to the facts. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/free-markets -or-net-zero-choose-one-britains-car-rationing-edi tion/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Just watched a bit about obscure history. The Captain of the U.S.S. Houston sent one of the first reports on the Japanese Long Lance torpedo. His reports were not ignored, but explained away. ( deja vu ) When faced with the prospect of a foe (that propaganda and a bit of racism had poisoned their objectivity about) with more advanced weapons, they went for the improbable, but more palatable, idea that the torpedoes reported had to come from submarines close in, rather than the enemy ships having absurdly long range super torpedoes. Which, unfortunately, they did. The intelligence failures in Japan prior to Pearl Harbor were, in retrospect, a combination of a few biased officers, some really on the ball guys who got ignored by the Establishment Intelligence Community, ( Deja vu ) and some wicked spycraft. Racism, preconceived ... Prejudgeing, wasn't the only thing that failed to prevent/predict the war, but it was a real factor in underestimating the enemy. That cost a lot of lives. In conclusion, don't blindly buy into opinions on the capabilities of our potential enemies. Especially when the underlying premise is something like "They're good at copying our stuff, but aren't as creative..." which you should consider a tell. China, for example, is a spacefaring high technology society with incredible human and natural resources. And a brand new industrial infrastructure, that mostly doesn't suck, because American and European companies built it. Sure, that comes with high cost to the subjects of the CCP, but it's a big place with lots of smart people. And a further history note. If you look at WW2 Japanese aircraft engines, many have an eagle emblem from Pratt & Whitney on the nose case. Before the war, they bought production rights for an engine, and the P&W reduction gear case was built for later generations of engines, the eagle logo was a trusted product. It'll be no surprise if drones sold by China have chips designed by a U.S. company. ( deja vu ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/lib erals-try-to-make-peoples-lives-worse.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-actually-it-is -blah-blah-blah/ They've taken the tiniest slice of planetary history that they could (their own short, pampered, transient lifetimes) and extrapolated doom. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/04/how-climate-ala rmism-killed-real-environmentalism/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/04/have-we-r eached-peak-green/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
Did my part yesterday. Took my 1970 Charger to the alignment shop (I rebuilt the front end last winter with all new bushings, arms, and rods), and once it was pointed the right direction I took a 65 mile "long way" home. Carbureted muscle cars RULE. | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/04/06/ kiss-your-gas-goodbye-n542163 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-hair-reveals- traces-of-hallucinogenic-drugs-taken-3600-years-ag o I watched a Joe Rogan show with a "radical" archaeology guy, who besides talking about lost civilizations, ( real ones are discovered as we speak as they burn down the Amazon rainforest for agriculture and biofuel ) talked about hallucinogenic drugs used by South American tribes. Interesting, even if I won't take them myself, ( to quote Sergeant Murtaugh, "I'm too old for this S%&$" ) and civilization built around psychoactive drugs seems to be an ongoing discussion in anthropology. I'm drinking my morning coffee from Columbia as I write this. And a dark chocolate mini bar for desert. ( closely related drugs ) Imho, anthropologists, as a Group, are hyper conformist idiots, big on canceling ideas outside their box. But not all of them. And you need a sense of humor. Current anthro-political dreck is jumping on the "everything is racist" money train, condemning coffee drinking as white supremacy. ( which is actually pretty fair, historically, though Tea is the big example, ask China ) While the older Establishment soft science guys point out that stimulants, like caffeine and cocaine are marks of "advanced" civilization and hallucinogenic drugs are the mark of "primitive" ones. You might imagine the arguments in the field on those ideas! I don't know about Atlantis, but the Amazon basin lost cities now being uncovered by deforestation are interesting mysteries. It took very efficient agriculture to feed cities the size of medieval European ones like London, in poor soil areas. The Agricultural science guys are just beginning to scratch the surface on this. The actual culture, religion, societies, are utter mystery. The visitors from Europe brought plagues that wiped out... The critical minimum to sustain civilization, so Everybody died. All that remains is earthworks and soils built with massive labor by now vanished people. An interesting and scary thing that nature ( and immigration brought plagues ) can erase so much in so short a time. In a single century entire cities forgotten. Just decades and even less between the Lewis and Clark expedition visiting North American city states and empty lands. Mass Migration and wars fought by Native American tribes totally unknown to the European colonists on the East and Gulf coast. The history of mankind is longer, more complex, and more scary than they teach in schools back when they taught history. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.inverse.com/science/now-we-know-how-a- solar-storm-took-out-a-fleet-of-starlinks | ||
| Aesquire |
https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/debunkers-retur n-to-the-soft-targets?utm_source=direct&utm_campai gn=post&utm_medium=web There's a difference between debunking myths and following politicians unquestioningly. As an example, a few years back, Vitamin D was The New Big Thing, advertised in heavy rotation. One local talk radio station doesn't have the budget to buy all the content they'd like, so runs infomercials for the ( usually scam ) supplement of the week. And a lot of radio pundits sell "gold investment" and supplement stuff. ( my favorite is beet gummies for people who don't like beets but want their magic power, or health benefits, whatever ) Now, Vitamin D is a real thing. Some people can greatly benefit from a supplement if They don't go outside and expose some skin to sunlight... It's why the pale blue Northern Peoples like me have severe melanin deficiency issues in summer. ( burn & peel! ) As natural selection chose near transparent skin to get enough D when only a small percentage of skin is exposed in severe cold weather. Your body doesn't store much. But for most, extra D is unnecessary, and for some, actually harmful. Human variability is a real thing. As it turns out, Vitamin D is/may be an important factor in resisting Covid, or a part of the treatment to minimize illness along with other drugs. That doesn't mean the paragraphs above are mutually exclusive. Absolutes are always wrong. Including this one. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/cli mate-change-dingers.php Sure, it's almost total propaganda, but... It only takes a few degrees to change the air density enough to make a difference in low powered competitions. Not to knock baseball, but it's a human arm with a bat, moving that ball, not gunpowder or a rail gun. Steroids, & nutrition, sure, probably bigger factors than air density, but it doesn't take much. A record attempt on the "hour record" in bicycling a few years ago failed, barely, ( how many meters a person can ride in one hour ) and after the attempt the team that worked on training determined that it they'd had been able to turn the heaters in the velodrome up the night before, the temperature/humidity/air density would have been enough to beat the record. In motor sports, the colder/higher density air at a race can allow an engine to make more horsepower by allowing more fuel burn and overcome the drag from the denser air, but within a certain temperature range human power output doesn't change more than the drag. So, sure there may well be a statistical relationship between the last century's natural average degree+ of temperature rise, and the extra few feet to turn a caught ball into a missed catch. All the more reason for sports fans to demand the end of the Climate Cult! | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.bworldonline.com/opinion/2023/04/09/51 5543/the-aliens-have-landed-and-we-created-them/ How can you tell I'm not an AI? The Machine Stops wasn't a prediction, it was a warning. I point out that we now have AIs that can pass a Turing Test, and a President and Vice President that cannot. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/04/13/cascadia-f ault-line-could-be-ready-to-shift-and-that-would-b e-very-bad-n543592? There's some excellent videos on the geology of the Pacific northwest that cover some of the major cataclysmic events there since the Ice Age. The Cascadia fault caused tsunamis are periodic, massive and due. It's not just the politics that make life there risky. I grew up in tornado country, where a narrow random swath of destruction was always possible to be in the way of. Narrow, localized. Everyone West of the mountains is in the way of a mega tsunami. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/a-t ime-for-charging.php The difference between voluntary and mandatory is the difference between freedom and dictatorial regime. |
