A federal censorship bill will be useful in prosecuting bloggers and Facebook subscribers, an RCMP specialist said last night. Bill C-36 will “see more things through to charges,” a webinar was told: “There is no such thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression.”
We can lay lotsa charges with #C36 censorship bill, say @RCMPGRC police; bloggers & tweeters face $70K fines or house arrest for offensive words.
Today in Corona-stan
Interesting article in The Guardian regarding seasonality and epidemic equilibrium. Berenson is of the opinion that the vaccines work for 3-4 months . And…
Something really odd is going on: In Europe we are seeing surges at many places where most of the population has already been vaccinated. At the same time, the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face any problem. (long twitter thread, follow it down)
Side note: From time to time there are complaints about using things here from twitter, youtube, facebook, etc. like I just did. Believe me I understand the argument, they are bad actors causing problems and as such should not be rewarded. Having said that if there’s good or useful information being shared on these platforms that can’t be found elsewhere ignoring it just makes us dumber. That’s the trade off. I don’t particularly like it either but I’d rather have the information.
As always, suggestions or tips on how to get around any of this are welcome. I’ve picked up a few in the comment sections since I started here and they are appreciated. As are spelling and grammar corrections.
5 Minutes with a Climate Sceptic
So what’s wrong with this narrative? In a nutshell, we’ve vastly oversimplified both the problem and its solutions. The complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity of the existing knowledge about climate change is being kept away from the policy and public debate. The solutions that have been proposed are technologically and politically infeasible on a global scale.
Thank-You For Your Service
Take a look at people who think they are smart, where Jack Dorsey in the tradition of computer science entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, also dropped out of college before receiving his degree. Apparently, these guys were all so involved in coding, they never bothered to listen in history class. I warned before, they may have thought they were the golden boys of the Democrats for taking down Trump. That kind of power in the hands of anyone outside of Washington is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Biden’s new executive order was signed on Friday before these fools could realize, that they are no longer needed. Biden signed a new executive order to crack down on Big Tech, under the name of capitalism to boost competition across the board. Biden signed this new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor, and numerous other sectors. There are 72 actions and recommendations that involve a dozen federal agencies, that are intended to reshape the thinking around corporate consolidation and antitrust laws.
One Family’s Story
Our Family Got Vaccinated. Then We all Got COVID.
Two weeks ago, we took a family trip out of state, our first in eighteen months.
Three-quarters of us had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer shot, with the exception being our 11-year old daughter. We’d been extremely diligent for a year and half (often militant) in taking precautions: isolating and masking and distancing since March of 2020.
My wife, 16-year old son, and I all registered for vaccines the first day we were eligible in order to give our family the best chance at protection moving forward. I was ecstatic to get jabbed. We all were. It felt like we could exhale for the first time in a long time.
Yous People Never Shuts Up
At some point in the coming days, SDA will record our 1.5 millionth comment.
Seriously, thanks so much. Reader engagement is the driving force behind the success of SDA. Thank you all for your contributions!
No guarantees, but I’ll try to identify who logged Comment 1.5M after we cross the threshold. So keep that in mind and try to make it a good one.
Update: Well, that was brain fog of a different order. All day I read the figure as 1,499,662… Jesus Murphy, I must get more sleep. But we’ll get there soon enough.
Unprecedented Increase
Secondly, since we don’t have good global energy imbalance measurements before this period, there is no justification for the claim, “the magnitude of the increase is unprecedented.” To expect the natural energy flows in the climate system to stay stable to 1 part in 300 over thousands of years has no scientific basis, and is merely a statement of faith. We have no idea whether such changes have occurred in centuries past.
Getting What You Voted For
Good and hard.
Cat Videos Are Next
It’s not looking good for dog ones either.
Not Just Big Tech: Government Memo Shows Bill C-10 Targets News Sites, Podcast and Workout Apps, Adult Websites, Audiobooks, and Sports Streamers for CRTC Regulation
According to an internal government memo to Guilbeault signed by former Heritage Deputy Minister Hélène Laurendeau released under the Access to Information Act, the department has for months envisioned a far broader regulatory reach. The memo identifies a wide range of targets, including podcast apps such as Stitcher and Pocket Casts, audiobook services such as Audible, home workout apps, adult websites, sports streaming services such as MLB.TV and DAZN, niche video services such as Britbox, and even news sites such as the BBC and CPAC.
It’s a long list. Take a look
Progressive Justice
Eliminating Reasonable Doubt
That’s the goal of the prosecution in the Chauvin trail and they’ve just about finished making their case. Then the defense gets their turn.
The Law of Self Defense Blog Day 11
First, the state has to prove that Chauvin’s conduct was a significant contributory cause of Floyd’s death—that would be sufficient for the third-degree murder charge. Even the other charges do not require that Chauvin intentionally killed Floyd. Apparently not even the prosecution believes this was an act of intentional RACISTPOLICEMURDER!!! Or we would see an intentional killing charge in this case, and we do not.
A second condition that must also be met in order for that conduct that may have made a significant contribution to Floyd’s death to be a crime—the conduct itself must in some manner be legally wrongful. If the conduct was lawful, it cannot be the basis for criminal liability.
It’s a good recap of what’s been going on. Have a look.
Old Montreal Curfew Protest
The Coming Riots
Should Chauvin be cleared based on the evidence who should be blamed for the resulting riots? Scott Adam’s has an opinion. If you’re looking to catch up with what’s been going on The Law of Self Defence blog has a good day by day breakdown.
Update (from Kate): “I ate too many drugs”
Trumps new website
I Want A New Country
… and a new computer.
My twelve year old desktop died last night, and that leaves me with a twitchy old laptop as backup. Blogging will be slow at my end until Lance can perform transplant surgery on the old box, or failing that, I have to buy a new one. Ugh. Not so good.
Until then, you’re in the capable hands of the guest bloggers and our new constitutional subordination to the “national interest”. Rage on.
Social Disease
Social media platforms will not last. — good observations from “old school internet nerd” Cal Newport, with Lex Fridman.
Related: Liberals cannot stop the self-destruction Twitter encourages.
Blog Notes
I shouldn’t have to remind you of this, but if you insist on posting comments with three, four, five links… they’re diverted to spam or moderation by the software, and subsequently deleted. Don’t do it. I will not rescue them.
Steyn
Anyone looking to keep up with Mark Steyn should head on over to his website steynonline.com.
Of particular note is the audio version of the Mark Steyn show which you can listen to here.
Yesterday’s episode is a good one. You can listen to it straight from that page or as I like to do download it to your phone or device so you can listen to it anywhere. Link here.
Fun fact, Steyn regularly looks in on Small Dead Animals to see what’s catching our eye and what we’re saying about it.
The Abyss of Infinite Lunacy
The Gadfather has a list…
The rate at which our society is sinking into madness is truly bewildering:
1) It is now racist for a white person to translate the work of a black person
2) It is now homophobic for a straight actor to play a gay character
3) It is now racist for a white therapist to treat a black client
4) It is now racist to have advanced high school programs
5) It is now transphobic for biological females to reject having to compete against trans women (biological males)
There’s lots more.
And a big red pill here.
Blog Notes
The server that SDA is hosted on continues to be compromised by load problems, so I’m in discussion with the support people about an upgrade. Not sure of a timeline on this, or if there will be any significant downtime, but if the site continues to be erratic please be patient — we’re working on it.
As an aside, I’m now on Gab.com as @Katewerk, so if anything disastrous or permanent does occur, that’s where I’ll post news. (Gab is still struggling to cope with the massive influx of new accounts and traffic, so access is slow and sporadic.)