39 Replies to “September 30, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. Here’s a tip. Chris Wallace is an asshole. Mind you I think that s pretty common knowledge to anyone even remotely politically aware.

  2. Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest

    MIT may have a working reactor in 3 or 4 years. Meanwhile back in France, the multinational fusion reactor started in 2013 is expected to work in 2035:
    “Construction of a reactor, called Sparc, which is being developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a spinoff company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, is expected to begin next spring and take three or four years,”

    “The Journal of Plasma Physics, researchers laid out the evidence that Sparc would succeed and produce as much as 10 times the energy it consumes.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html?auth=linked-facebook

    For easier access and better graphics go to MIT web site:
    https://news.mit.edu/2020/physics-fusion-studies-0929

    1. Paul.

      “Compact” Nuke reactor will actually work…well yea..!! Say it aint so….ffs.
      What exactly has been powering Nuclear Subs for the last 60 years..?? Compared to 3 Mile island, I’d say those power plants were definitely miniaturized….no.?

      We have taken the Vacuum Tube and miniaturized its capability to Nano size, Yet for some unfathomable reason we have yet to do similar with miniaturizing a Nuclear power plant for a truck or car.??

      Gee, I wonder why that is eh.??

      1. Keep in mind that the reactors in nuclear vessels are based on fission while the article is about fusion systems. The physics for each are different.

      2. The critical mass needed to achieve chain nuclear fission reaction produces way too much energy for a car, laughing out loud. Let alone the diligent control needed.
        Nuclear reaction gains energy because there is actually less mass after the reaction. The missing mass has been converted to pure energy. When a nucleus breaks down, it’s called fission. When two nuclei become one, it’s called fusion. The former involves the heaviest elements on the periodic table, the latter the lightest. It’s a completely different technology. If successful, fusion reactors have all kinds of theoretical advantages, but sustained reaction has not been achieved. For half a century, I have heard promises that controlled fusion is only a decade away. I’ll believe it when I see it.
        Semiconductors are a completely different technology than vacuum tubes. They did not miniaturize the vacuum tube, they invented something else entirely.

        1. Actually, vacuum devices are still used, but they’re not the same type as the ones in the old days.

          Even one’s microwave oven uses one, namely the cavity magnetron. Roughly speaking, an element at one end of the device is heated to produce an electron beam. The electrons are directed by magnets past a set of precisely-machined cavities, which start resonating at microwave frequencies. The resulting waves are directed out of the device into the oven itself by means of a waveguide at the other end.

          Cavity magnetrons were invented nearly 100 years ago, but probably their first practical use was in the development of radar. They were used to produce the signals that had wavelengths short enough to give enough resolution to identify targets. That’s one reason why the early ovens were often referred to as “radar ranges”.

    1. I’ve been listening since 2014….when it was first brought up…alongside a proposal to ship syncrude North from Ft Mac to join up with the Trans Alaskan Pipeline system. Seems the Alaska Govt was 100% in Favour of this due to diminishing returns in Alaska oil wells.

      Just think – our Crude shipped to Valdez – a yr round deep water port capable of handling ULCC and other dbl hulled tankers ….. 2-3 48″ pipelines north. twood be awesome.!!

      Why we MUST WEXIT.

      …and BC can suck the hind teat.

      1. …and BC can suck the hind teat.
        So can Queebec and the rest of Eastern Kanukistan.
        Let those blood suckers eat their own

  3. Great Leader Kim Sung Trudeau is spending another morning prancing virtually at the UN. Today he will be talking about bio-diversity. In other news this morning, Canadians are racist bastards.

  4. A Capital Crime.
    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/protest-camp-at-national-war-memorial-lingers-as-city-police-await-direction-from-federal-government
    The article says a few months but ecotards were loaded up there last year.
    The cowardice of the federal government is on full display at the War Memorial of all places.
    Side note: its not shown but I walked past last week and the ceremonial guards in front of the memorial are wearing masks. Brutal.

  5. Blacklock reports that home heating costs will rise 60% under Adolf’s new environmental regulations.

  6. Still nothing on CTV,CBC etc about a liberal cabinet minister eating some child’s pet dog or her watching and paying to watch two roosters forced to kill one another Hard to believe there isn’t one reporter out there with the guts to report this

  7. Still tune in to BNN-Bloomberg and CNBC business networks as “safe havens” from the relentless propaganda offered by the other news networks. But the Bloomberg portion of the former network is becoming more and more woke, during this election campaign.

    And over at CNBC, today , right after the first debate, the network premiers a new one-hour segment, called “The News”, with host Shepard Smith. Recall that FOX News gave the reporter the heave ho, once he decided to convert his late-afternoon show there into a CNN attack-Trump clone.

    What has been interesting, though, is the endlessly repetitive promo CNBC commercials hyping Smith’s new show. It has the PC host decribing his show as “honest”, “real news”, “the facts” and “news that can you help you out”, and other such drivel. This reminds me of the repetitive promos, a few years ago, for Lisa Laflamme’s CTV show. The news networks all use the same adjectives to misleading imply honest journalism, whereas in reality it is the same biased fluff.

    Btw, I accidently channel-surfed onto Laflamme’s national news dhoe. Didn’t realize she now has grey hair.

    1. HA! You missed “the change”. A process that took about a month, from sudden grey highlights, to suddenly full blown Silverback. She just has to change her sleeve length to complete the job. She’s broadcasting from her backyard these days…the rose bush keeps moving around, though. We take a break from FOX to catch her show. The Kan-eh-jian perspective, direst from Zentrul Kontrul….Tronna, Zentre off Der Univurse.

  8. Helen Reddy singer and an icon of the woman’s liberation movement has passed away.

    In the early 70’s Reddy wrote and performed, ‘I am Woman’ which became the anthem of a generation of women. It propelled Reddy to stardom. It’s not a tune that I care about one way or another but I do for the most part like Reddy’s volume of work.

    There is another song though that made it’s way up the charts in the 70’s that was along the same theme as Reddy’s but had the opposite message. ‘I’m a Woman’, by Maria Muldaur had lines like, ” I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you.” You know she can and would! Best version is from ‘Waitress in a Donut Shop’ LP with Paul Butterfield on the Mississippi saxophone.

    1. Helen Reddy’s reputation was largely dependent on that one song. Roughly 10 years after it was on the charts, it appeared that her popularity had faded.

      When I was still working on my first master’s degree, I shared an office with a group of foreign students, one of whom was an Aussie. During one of our lunchtime bull sessions, he mentioned that at one of her concerts, presumably in Australia, she was booed off the stage. Then again, I don’t remember him having a high opinion of her.

      1. I’m not trying to make the case for HR. She had a good career given that she had kids when she got started. She was pretty low key…to use a poor choice of words. 10 years is a career in show business. Many artists have a hit and are never heard from again.

        Reddy had a life outside of the spotlight. She left on her terms.

        She had a number of songs that hit the top 40 and some made number 1. Somebody in the public must have liked her. Aussies booing her off the stage…..there’s a number of ways you could look at that. Hell people booed Ronstadt.

        Ok I guess I am making the case for HR – ha. Not sure why as I never owned anything she recorded or was a fan of the women’s lib movement she was a champion of. Like I said above Maria Muldaur’s music is more to my liking.

        1. I was surprised when I heard the booing story. I thought she was considerably more popular.

  9. Reply to Larry: WOW I have been hearing about false positive Covid tests. Your video says a false positive from .8% to just under 4%. But this percentage should be applied to total tests (in Alberta about 7,000 to 11,000 daily) not just to the positive numbers (in Alberta 100 to 170) Thus an average of 2% of 7,000 is 140. If you take even the high 170 positive cases and subtract 2% (140) you only have 30 real cases. I find this fascinating.

  10. Canadian politicians of all stripes are constantly singing the virtues of public transit, although none of them take public transit – it is for everyone else to endure the crowding, delays, discomforts and risks. Fares paid by users of public transit cover only a small portion of building, operating and maintaining public transit systems, which means taxpayers are forced to provide $billions in annual subsidies (in part to pay ticket sellers in Toronto Transit over $100,000 a year).

    Since the mainstream media don’t cover the story, you may wonder what has happened to public transit since the Wu Flu lock downs came into effect. Statistics Canada, at least, is reporting the big picture. In July:

    “On a year-over-year basis, the number of transit passengers fell by 65.5% to 50.8 million passenger trips.”

    With such a massive decline in ridership, shouldn’t there have been a significant number of lay-offs in public transit systems? Oh that’s right; the key word is “public”. Public sector workers are not subject to layoffs even when the work they are supposed to do has disappeared.

    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200930/dq200930d-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan

    1. Yep…Trains run on schedule with no one in em….

      But “Y’all keep better keep on believing that BS about a Pandemic.”
      We don’t have a Pandemic – We have a CASE DEMIC….of mostly FALSE Positives.
      Lying Mofo’s at every level of govt in this utterly Fkd up country.

      The IDIOCY is virulent and contagious….as can be seen by utter fools driving or walking down the street wearing masks.

    2. Those cunned stunts in Ottawa – specifically Jim Sore Arse Watson – purposely excluded public washrooms in the light rail system tunnel if not the whole system. It beggars belief. Meanwhile huge delays are common. That’s a piss drenched result and an embarrassment for a modern nation’s capital. There are NO public washrooms anywhere downtown.

      All I see are empty buses driving around.

      Another Ottawa case of the joke this country has become is shown by the National Arts Center. The orchestra players have all maintained their salaries and not one employee outside of the stage people who are a private sector union has been laid off. There are NO show or plays or live entertainment and haven’t been since mid-march!

  11. And now your whiny indian stories for today. Brought to you by the Liquor Stores Of Ontario. The Liberal Party’s Toronto Star complains about how medical colonialism is killing indians. Mayor Jello of Toronto held a press conference wearing an orange shirt to support the establishment of a whiny indian day. He explained that Canadians are racist bastards. And Shree at the Star rants about the law college at the University of Toronto being racist against indians or something.

  12. Anything is allowed, including stretching the defn of marriage, if it will bring in more fake refugees?!?

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/gay-man-and-straight-woman-can-form-a-conjugal-relationship-canadian-court-rules-1.5125477

    To get out of any-where-a-stan you simply say you were being persecuted for being gay. Now only in Canada you can come in and simultaneously bring your female wife and baby. Because nothing says being persecuted for being gay like having a wife and baby!

    1. You’ll know we’ve turned the corner when Canada’s own perverts are taking the hint to prey on children somewhere else—like Boygangrapistan, where you’re only a queer if you’re the one being sodomized by the imam and his boyfriends.

      None is too many when Muslims and perverts are concerned.

      1. It’s Kan-eh-duh, anything is possible. What’s that quip “click your and pretty soon you’re in Kansas”, no wait….Tronna?

  13. And here’s the original article, sound familiar to you folks north of 49? How about that “new” improved and expensive Sock Buoy, KARBUN TAX? Soon to suck at your wallet and end up in the Trudeau Foundation. Betcha.
    https://www.cfact.org/2020/09/29/climate-emergency-means-house-arrest/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-emergency-means-house-arrest
    And don’t forget Mr. Sore-Arse and his pal Buttsky and the Little Trollette in this.

  14. Trump just joked about doing another 16 years at his rally – but he should!

    If he does 20 years as Commander in Chief he can collect a military pension!

    (It’s 25 in Canada, so our Governor General would have to serve a few more to collect her pension as Commander in Chief… yay… )

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