Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 - 11:20 am:
The left is not as bad as you think they are and neither is the right as bad as some on the left would have you believe.
I'm going to respectfully disagree.
There are a few right wing loons who should not be allowed near children and who's ideas need to be argued against with great fervor. In our American population of 300 million citizens and 50 million illegal immigrants, there must be dozens. Right wing, as I knew it in the 1970s just doesn't matter today.
And the Left is directly responsible, actually murdering the subjects of the neo-marxist states, for most unnatural deaths since 1900. More than war. More than cancer. Deliberate murder. Fundamental Dishonesty. Racist Divisiveness. Miseducational fraud. Deliberate and systemic.
Feel free to be angry at the megacorporations like the Disney Agitprop conglomerate and Pfizer that take advantage of the Leftist government greed and fascist, aka government control of "the means of production" by picking their "friends" aka the biggest briber, for success and monopoly. ( Obama and Mussolini have near identical economic/political patterns. )
And sure, there's plenty of hypester bloviating for clickbait! Powerline blog and Tucker whatshisname are great examples of that.
As to agribusiness pollution? Absolutely needs to be mentioned. But climate impact? With a Zero success rate in predictions for 45 years and the increasing admissions by, for, example, the UNIPCC & WEF that it's all about "changing the system" and Power, that's a solidly disproved political anti science cult. Tied with bonds of cash and blood to the CCP, Hamas, and the old Soviet KGB, aka Putin's Russia today.
It's perfectly legitimate to argue against over use of chemical fertilizer. To demand the shut down of farming for fear of "excessive nitrogen emissions" ( the largest component of our atmosphere ) and demanding killing all the farting cows to save the Planet, as the E.U. has, is not science based policy. At all. Pure power greed through fear mongering lies, and pathological busybody insanity. With guns. And Secret Police.
Today I was rear ended by an electric car in non moving traffic on the traffic light. The driver pressed acceleration pedal instead of brake pedal. Those clutchless gearless 2 buttons control EVs are really dangerous. People lost focus when they need to operate just a single button.
Thanks that thick beefy 240mm rear wheel tire, that probably saved my life absorbing the most energy.
Glad you are OK TP. Does not really matter what kind of car they were driving though. Idiots can mash the gas instead of the brake in a gas car, too. And they do.
I have no damage, the bike does. The left side peg, the gear shift lever, the bar end turn signal, the bar end mirror,the highway footpeg and the TRex rear axle slider.
The TRex axle slider and the highway footpeg bracket saved the frame and the engine. The Knight Design gear shift lever snapped at the horizontal bar and I guess it saved the transmission and engine case from damage.
I got hit in my Toyota last week, it's in the shop. Scratch on my hand, no big. It was a head on collision with college kids, exactly like so many dashcam videos out of India. I stopped and they ran head on into me at relatively slow speed with zero braking or course change. Totally Cliche!
I did tell his passengers to mock him mercilessly for being told by a Senior Citizen his reflexes are slow.
Lovely weather for Christmas day after heavy fog on the Eve.
I keep telling people. I'm not a Climate Change Denier. It's actually one of my interests, studied for decades, & I bet I can give more true examples in history than most.
I'm pro Global Warming. It's still colder out there, on average, than when Joseph and Mary couldn't get a room because of the Roman Census rush. ( it wasn't the Christmas rush until much later, obviously ) And not as warm as the Medieval Climate Optimum. Or 1928.
No, what I am is an unrepentant counter revolutionary and weather dependent activities guy. ( sailing, soaring, biking )
I'm willing to bet the professional sailors that gave Saint Greta of Thunberg a free ride across the Atlantic share my understanding of the Lies their millionaire employer sell as grand theft psychodrama. ( or they'd be missing at sea ) But totally understand that being a yacht crew requires not offending the rich guy that hires you to run their nice boat.
They had to cancel this one so they can regroup and come up with plans for their next boondoggle. Bidenomics is working. They are simply lying about what its goals are.
I'm skeptical about the Dark Matter/Energy notions. I think we're missing some important aspect of "the fabric of space time" and gravity, possibly as old as Aristotle.
But I'm not a mathematical genius and haven't tried to keep up with string loop yoyo theory.
One idea to make up the apparently missing mass of the Universe is a Lot of primordial black holes. But I thought Steven Hawking made them obsolete?!
In oversimplified terms, the movement of galaxies either shows we got the wrong guess as to the mass of everything, or we don't understand gravity correctly yet.
Both of those are Heresy, for some reason, as the Global Warming Cult substitutes Dogma for Questioning.
One current hypothesis is there is a limit to our observations. As you get further away, the galaxies recede faster and faster until they are going faster than light to our perspective and we can't see them. To me this seems to violate aspects of Relativity, but it does make sense if we live inside a galaxy sized or bigger black hole. Kinda. And the existence of Lots of Huge black holes might fit the math.
But I'm thinking we are still missing a fundamental aspect of gravity itself.
It's a super massive mistake to assume you know everything, much like a Galactic sized black hole.
You are on to something there. Hawking calls it a light cone effect, in A Brief History of Time. Events that occur outside of your light cone cannot affect you. All that missing matter may be outside our light cone and may as well no longer exist.
On the one hand, I want to misquote the chaos theory scientist from Jurassic Park, "Life finds a way", since evolutionary pressure from antibiotics breeds resistant bacteria.
On the other hand, this is interesting because we didn't think genes acted like that, with changes outside reproductive shuffling. Aka, "everything we know is wrong" moment.
I don't think this will validate Lysenko, (1) but it's a hint that we should be looking at some old ideas in science that were ( properly, and/or politically, ) rejected when disproved by some evidence or dogma that turns out to have been mistaken. ( I'm rooting for Aether )
(1) Russian scientist who had evolution/genetic/racial/agricultural theories that, uh, were apparently wrong, since his policies caused a major famine.
Arguably the Fauci of his day, Lysenko was connected and a great bull$%&- artist. He had a lot of bad influence on science in the USSR. They're both authoritarian regime/cult examples, IMHO, and Lysenko is worth a quick study of his results, politically/intellectual speaking, on Soviet science etc.