64 Replies to “December 24, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. Settled science – Nothing travels faster than light. Except information over a quantum network.

    NASA scientists achieve long-distance ‘quantum teleportation’ over 27 miles for the first time – paving the way for unhackable networks that transfer data faster than the speed of light.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9078855/NASA-scientists-achieve-long-distance-quantum-teleportation-time.html

    “‘a viable quantum internet … would transform the fields of data storage, precision sensing and computing, ushering in a new era of communication,’ says the team behind the project, which includes researchers at fermilab, AT&T, caltech, harvard university, NASA jet propulsion laboratory, and university of calgary
    https://www.designboom.com/technology/nasa-long-distance-quantum-teleportation-12-22-2020/

      1. LOL…VOWG I always enjoy your posts. And if we were allowed to go someplace for a beer, I would buy!

      2. We already receive it the speed of light,VOWG, this will enable us to receive the bullshit before it arrives.

    1. Sounds pretty cool. And like everything cool about the Internet anymore, the technology will soon be weaponized against conservatives by our technofascist anti free speech oligarchs.

    2. I’m reminded of the following limerick, which I first read while I was still in junior high school:

      There was a young lady named Bright
      Whose speed was far faster than light.
      She set out one day
      In a relative way
      And returned on the previous night.

    1. Xian H-6 N model bombers can carry six cruise missiles, including anti-ship “carrier killers”.

      Best estimate is that they have about 200 H-6 bombers in the inventory – twice as many as Russia.

      Russia has TU-95 Bears of course, and some supersonic Blackjacks, and China has only a few N models now, but they’re both upgrading capabilities.

      China can win a regional shooting war right now and there’s little anyone could do about it with conventional means. But after seeing how easy it is to win a war with unconventional means, a virus, China may hold its fire, aren’t we lucky…

      1. With Biden pesident, they won’t need a shooting war, he’ll say “One China Policy” and in they’ll go.

  2. A Communist Christmas
    AwakenWithJP
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAYITZRdJk&ab_channel=AwakenWithJP
    ———————————————————————————————————————————
    L- Lockdowns, Reset, de-industrialization, destruction of a free and democratic society…
    all the presents of Marxism going viral.

    This classic might uplift your spirit.
    Kaylee Rodgers Singing Hallelujah
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmx–WjeN7o

    1. Logic and planning government style. Years ago in Sudbury there was a local bylaw that prohibited bicycles on the road in winter, because, it is Canada and only the mentally ill try and drive a bike in sub zero weather in a couple of feet of snow. I imagine Sudbury has joined the ranks of the terminally stupid these days.

    2. That sounds like Fort St. John. As a homeowner, I’m responsible for making sure that the sidewalk along the street in front of my house is clear and safe to walk on. I get down to bare concrete, free of ice, and what happens? The municipal snowplow comes along, puts a thin layer of snow back all over the sidewalk, and then it has to be cleared off again.

      During the winter, I should change my name to Sisyphus.

    3. I call the downtown Calgary city bike lanes the “goods and services” lanes. The ‘Patch’ may have dwindled but the downtown area is not 100% dead. Many who use the bike lanes work for a Courier service. I believe law firms and others use it because the service is very efficient. I’ve seen these people on bikes wearing pack sacks, they zoom by so fast that one has to get out of their way. Or else!

      Don’t forget the fees, they all charge G.S.T.
      Time is money, and the City Mayor knows it.

    4. Don’t forget the paths in the parks. They are plowed out long before any other route.

      Unlike Eastern cities, in Calgary we don’t remove most of the snow. We pay to push snow around and pray for Chinooks.

      For this one they didn’t even put in a snow ban, ‘cause it’s a lockdown Chinook Xmas.

      Went for a long walk last night, every single sidewalk had been shoveled. 30 years in Calgary there is always one elder or lazy doofus on every block who lets the sidewalk go. Last night 100% of frontage cleared. I guess folks must be getting tired of Netflix.

      Oh and we got the ubiquitous; “we may not have the capacity to deal with all the shoveling heart attacks and slipping related injuries.” story on the news. We must have one fragile health care system.

      1. We must have one fragile health care system.

        Of course we do. One phony-baloney plague and the whole thing shuts down. I spoke with my elderly aunt about it on the telephone last night. According to her, the hospital in her part of Vancouver Island is overflowing with virus emergencies and the staff are dropping like flies.

    5. Went out for a walk this PM. My street, on a steep hill, still hasn’t been plowed.

      Watched a city sanding truck try unsuccessfully to get up the hill.

      Hint for city road staff; plow the snow, then sand the road.

  3. The latest government COVID hypocrites………….

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9080743/Nicola-Sturgeon-apologises-spotted-pub-without-wearing-face-mask.html
    Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon caught without a mask at a wake in Edinburgh’s Stable Bar & Restaurant.
    “Failing to wear a face mask in Scotland can lead to a £60 fine, but it is unclear if Ms Sturgeon will face any action.”

    https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-birx-retirement-20201222-ennuzobmojfoje47gpaqf36faq-story.html
    Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force leader, announced Tuesday that she will retire just days after she was accused of bending her own rules with a Thanksgiving weekend gathering at a beach house.
    Birx visited the beach home over the holiday weekend with members of more than one household in apparent violation of Centers for Disease Control restrictions, the Associated Press reported.

    1. We’re all in it together, except, of course, that we’re not.

      “Birx — who has a home in Washington D.C. and another in Potomac, Maryland — defended the trip saying that she needed to take care of winterizing the property before a potential sale.
      “I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving,” Birx said in a statement.
      She argued the members of the trip belong to her “immediate household,” though acknowledged that they live in separate homes.
      https://ricochet.com/849044/if-birx-didnt-cancel-thanksgiving-do-we-have-to-cancel-christmas/

    2. ‘I am kicking myself harder than my worst critic ever could’
      Nah. I could drop kick the witch right into next week, but on the other hand, she can be forgiven the lapse. Not everyone succeeds as a scam artist.

  4. https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16454
    New Mexico walks back ‘free’ college tuition promise, can no longer afford it. Plans to use oil profits to pay for the Opportunity Scholarship are now on hold, however, due to the decrease in oil prices.

    Activist and attorney Jorge Galicia, a Venezuelan who fled his home country due to the economic collapse from socialism imparts some hard-earned wisdom…..

    “Galicia explains that this exact situation happened in Venezuela, forcing him and millions of others to flee to America.”
    “Galicia also emphasized the need for America to decrease public spending. He stated that the U.S. needs to take these issues more seriously before America suffers an economic collapse like Venezuela.”

  5. Even though Adolf’s roll out of vaccines is a total failure, his bought and paid for media continues this morning to praise him for saving Canada from the China virus.

  6. There is going to be a lot of rotting vaccines in frigid warehouses because sane people do not trust the government and big pharma not to kill them with a pretend cure for a mere corona virus that 99.5% survive.

    These vaccines contain DNA altering chemicals. DNA! … there very thing that makes you, you.

    And you are going to let people like Bill Gates push you into accepting this poison? He already conned millions into accepting his inferior operating system …. Apple is much much better even though the company is infested with scum-bag commies.

      1. I have to admit that I’ve never tried kissing a YouTube video, a Christmas tree, or a raccoon. I know, I’ve led a deprived life…..

    1. Yes, great summary. Someone should put this into a “video” info-graphic.

      I find this point to be interesting:
      “Common sense tells us that no candidate so pathetically inept and so deeply unappealing, could possibly have inspired 15.4 million more people to vote for him, than had voted for Democrat icon Barack Obama in 2012.[11]”

      So, if you actually believe that Biden got 15.4 million votes that Obama wouldn’t it follow that perhaps Obama wasn’t all that popular? Isn’t it then “obvious” that President Obama could not have achieved anything without riding Vice President Joe Biden’s coat-tails? Was Obama was nothing more than, as the LA Times articles suggestions, a “magic negro”?
      https://www.latimes.com/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19-story.html
      Biden was the real “genius” behind Obama…it must be so…either that or he cheated…take your pick.

    2. Good summary. Congress has the last chance to at least look at some of this.
      “….Dennis Prager has written that “the rarest of all the positive human traits” is courage………Right now, not tomorrow, is the time for ordinary men and women to reach deep inside themselves, summon up a measure of courage that they may never have realized they possess, and do some extraordinary things. If fear can destroy a civilization, courage can save it”

    3. Yes that is what is truly disturbing, how shameless the fraud was, right out there in the open and the establishment says nothing to see here. Talk about sticking it to the American People. I see nothing good coming from thiscynicism.

      1. Yes, there’ll be a civil war or else balkanization in the USA. Hope it happens in Canada too. Communism always goes kaput.

  7. Why is Jordan Peterson trending on twitter?
    I checked the tweets but the nasties are prevalent so I choose to ignore their garbage.

  8. I just checked on the Rebel News loan payment campaign. Over $295,000 raised so far.

  9. Post Millennial reports on how Politico has addressed the most important issue facing Canadians. How Adolf’s beard makes him more distinguished and wise looking with age.

    1. How Adolf’s beard makes him more distinguished and wise looking with age.

      Because putting lipstick on that pig would have been considered undignified?

      1. I’ve seen better looking winos. The “beard” was born on his drunken/stoned bender down south a year or so ago. Probably after Sophie found him in an indelicate pose.

  10. Excellent article by Chris Selley in the National Post on how governments are violating our charter rights, but refusing to release data on how and where the China virus spreads because privacy rights must be protected.

    “As the exposure risk is confined to the workplace and there is a complete list of employees for follow-up, there is no need to publicly disclose the name or address of the workplace,” Peel Region’s medical officer of health, Dr. Jessica Hopkins, said on the subject of a 75-strong outbreak back in March. “This longstanding public health approach protects the privacy and security of those involved.”

    It’s almost funny, it’s so ludicrous. We’re meant to accept that our most basic Charter rights are subject to abridgement — mobility, assembly, association, religious observance — but that “longstanding public health approach(es)” are immutable with respect to corporations and their employees, even when balanced against a consumer’s right not to patronize an establishment that can’t keep COVID-19 under control. Alas, it’s entirely of a piece with Canadian officialdom’s principled objection to providing the peasants any information at all.”

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-walmart-is-more-forthcoming-about-covid-19-outbreaks-than-most-governments-thats-outrageous

  11. Granting pardons is particularly distasteful to me.

    Why is it that the friends of those in high places can be exempted from their crimes. Many are crimes against the proles themselves.

    It’s a practice that diminishes the office of the president and it should cease.

    The divine right of kings is something the founders were opposed to. How is this allowed?

    1. I am in absolute agreement. The trappings of a king.

      Wouldn’t need them if the system was fair. If the pardons reversed that corruption somehow I might argue fairness but I’m not prepared to take that side.

  12. Here’s a little something for all the gang at SDA…A link to a funny “The United Spot” video, for those not familiar they are all pro Trump, bitting and deadly accurate. Enjoy and a very Merry Christmas to all!

    https://youtu.be/wPnjvFNY83g

  13. Just because it’s Christmas, the critters shouldn’t be left out. Earlier this evening, I went my immediate neighbourhood and left some birdseed in a number of places , as well a big bunch of carrots for the rabbits in their regular feeding spot.

    I’m sure they’ll all stuff themselves full over the next few days.

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