Here's a good example of why AI will be made illegal. Notice ChatGPT leaves out of its answer Trump's quote "…peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard today."
Far more dangerous than TikTok. pic.twitter.com/s6i1UZablF
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 27, 2023
Predictably, the failure of Silicon Valley Bank has triggered the usual chorus of cries that “deregulation” is the culprit. In other words, investors just had too damned much freedom, presumably, to commit financial suicide. In some circles, this goes as far as to name Donald Trump as the orchestrator of the collapse.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other similarly sized banks in recent days has put a spotlight on Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law, which was signed by then-President Donald Trump.
I have yet to see one solitary explanation of what regulatory measure would have prevented the collapse, other than to have impossibly perfect foresight. No one can yet explain what kind of hedging mechanism would have worked in this case or by what means. After getting the smear campaign out of the way, the author can’t answer these questions either and basically throws in the towel:
It’s not clear that more oversight would have foreseen those problems and mitigated SVB’s risk exposure. But it probably wouldn’t have hurt.
Rather than reconsider the usefulness of skyrocketing borrowing for Covid stimulus, overpriced pipelines, battery plant subsidies and a war in the Ukraine, among many other programs, the federal government seems intent on making sure that productive individuals pay far more tax than they already do.
If these measures don’t trigger a recession, nothing will.
If enacted, this could bring the top combined marginal tax rate, once provincial tax is factored in, to approximately 56 per cent in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, and to 57 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Along the lines of what Dr. John Campbell has been saying regarding the importance of aspiration when administering vaccines, medical researcher Marc Girardot has developed a hypothesis about what might happen when the vaccine is injected into a vein instead of a muscle. His hypothesis goes a long way to explaining the variety of reactions to the vaccine ranging from none at all to sudden death.
The article is well worth the read and comes with a lot of visual aids.
In some instances, the needle might hit a small vessel and only inject a fraction of the standard doses. In other cases, a large portion, if not the entire dose, might be injected, leading to a much greater transfection potential of the endothelial linings of the blood vessels.
When the immune hit is one single cell, a neighbouring cell will duplicate to replace the missing cell, and the endothelial wall will repair perfectly. When multiple cells are hit simultaneously in a concentrated fashion, the natural process of repair no longer works.
We’d still live in caves, but with really really fancy curtains.
Sometimes a single incident efficiently summarizes a larger trend. So it is with New York University’s selection of its new president, Linda Mills, a licensed clinical social worker and an NYU social work professor. She researches trauma and bias, as well as race and gender in the legal academy. She is a documentary filmmaker and teaches advocacy filmmaking. She serves as an NYU vice chancellor and as a senior vice provost for Global Programs and University Life. In all these roles, Mills is the very embodiment of the contemporary academy. The most significant part of her identity, however, and the one that ties the rest of her curriculum vitae together, is that she is female, and thus overdetermined as NYU’s next president.
Mills is part of the Great Feminization of the American university, an epochal change whose consequences have yet to be recognized. Seventy-five percent of Ivy League presidents are now female. Nearly half of the 20 universities ranked highest by Forbes will have a female president this fall, including MIT, Harvard, and Columbia. Of course, feminist bean-counters in the media and advocacy world are not impressed, noting that “only” 5 percent of the 130 top U.S. research universities are headed by a black female and “only” 22 percent of those federal grant-magnets have a non-intersectional (i.e., white) female head.
Truthfully, I’m not sure we’d have curtains.
Female students and administrators often exist in a co-dependent relationship, united by the concepts of victim identity and of trauma. For university females, there is not, apparently, strength in numbers. The more females’ ranks increase, the more we hear about a mass nervous breakdown on campus. Female students disproportionately patronize the burgeoning university wellness centers, massage therapies, relaxation oases, calming corners, and healing circles.
I quote myself: Militant feminism arose as compensation for female inadequacy.
On March 8, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule regarding the chemical phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1) (PIP (3:1)) (CASRN 68937-41-7) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which prohibited the processing and distribution in commerce, including sales, of the chemical and products containing the chemical. EPA also issued an enforcement policy on the same day stating that it will not enforce the ban on processing and distribution until September 5, 2021.
A miniscule amount (less than 0.0003%) of PIP (3:1) is present within the layers of FUJICHROME Velvia 100 Professional films. Fujifilm believes that the trace amount of PIP (3:1) in the FUJICHROME Velvia 100 Professional films pose no risk to the environment.
As a global leader in imaging, Fujifilm is committed to acting sustainably, and complying with all country regulations. As such, Fujifilm will discontinue FUJICHROME Velvia 100 Professional film in the U.S. effective immediately (July 6, 2021).
h/t Cal
Representative Jerry Newton (D-Coon Rapids) and Representative Heather Edelson (D-Edina), introduced new legislation that would adopt a California-style ban on the sale of new gas-powered lawn equipment in Minnesota by January 1, 2025. The bill applies to lawnmowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, lawn edgers, string trimmers, and brush cutters if the engine is smaller than 25 horsepower.
According to Bob Vila’s website, this would effectively outlaw any push-mower that is gas-powered, and it would impact most riding lawnmowers, which use engines topping out at 24 horsepower, as well.
So your main political party spent decades promoting plans to “nationalize the mines, banks and monopoly industry”? How’s that working out for you these days?
South Africa has reached an unprecedented level of rotational power cuts.
According to Mantshantsha, South Africa’s total demand at 19:25 on Tuesday evening was 30,480MW, while the available generation capacity was 23,289MW.
Virtual Energy and Power director Clyde Mallinson noted that only 40% of Eskom’s coal fleet is currently operational. Based on current performance, he said there could be stage 7 power cuts in February and stage 11 by June or July.
A nation run by “comrades” whose main concern seems to be the fate of the Lumpenproletariat.
O, great and kind journalism! We are not worthy! Worried about your gas stove? This comic will show you other ways to cook.
Another installment in a long running series: You Get The City You Vote For.
Downtown Edmonton. Thanks Edmonton City Council. Your progressive policies are working. Why we need to ensure the NDP leave in May. pic.twitter.com/A2u8fGCywT
— OneTermNotley (@onetermnotley) February 12, 2023
Better late than never is progress, one supposes, when it comes to the left-wing corporate media. The mantra of “listen to the experts” has less to do with informed consent and more to do with unquestioning obedience coupled with the gaslighting of dissenters. In the end, “team science” just succeeded in wrecking their own credibility.
What we did not properly appreciate is that preferences determine how scientific expertise is used, and that our preferences might be—indeed, our preferences were—very different from many of the people that we serve. We created policy based on our preferences, then justified it using data. And then we portrayed those opposing our efforts as misguided, ignorant, selfish, and evil.
We made science a team sport, and in so doing, we made it no longer science. It became us versus them, and “they” responded the only way anyone might expect them to: by resisting.
Yeah, I know. It’s just an anecdote. No triple blind whirling somersault study to back it up. But it’s interesting nonetheless as it comes from someone who has been an unrelenting cheerleader for the mass vaccination program. It’s just not working out as well as hoped for, on a personal level.
….Vossoughian had mysterious aches in her chest for 10 days, culminating in chest and shoulder pain so severe that she wound up in the emergency room.
She was held for four nights before being discharged. But three days after that, she felt a “a butterfly” in her heart – or, less poetically, an arrhythmia – and was hospitalized again, with myocarditis, for five more nights, and was given a “battery” of tests before being released.Even Dr. Rochelle Walensky would not call a case of myopericarditis that required nine days of hospitalization “mild.”
Yes, she’s jabbed.
What’s not to like about providing financial incentives to arrive at a particular conclusion? What could possibly go wrong? I have to disagree with the authors on one point: there’s nothing “well-intended” about any of this.
This well-intended gesture has created a strong incentive to conflate dying from COVID-19 with passing incidentally while infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
One reason is the added incentive for hospitals to screen nearly every hospitalized patient for COVID, no matter what the underlying diagnosis, whether it is a broken tibia or a gallstone, even for patients with no COVID-like symptoms. Sec. 3710 of the CARES Act stipulates when a Medicare patient tests positive for COVID-19, the facility receives a 20 percent add-on reimbursement as long as there is a National Emergency.
Like any government program that intervenes in a sphere in which the state should not be meddling in the first place, government run pensions are basically doomed to fail. It’s time to wind down the ones we have and let individuals choose their own retirement options.
Indeed, the Social Security scheme is an excellent example of how government programs, once established, gradually become far more costly—in real per capita terms, not just aggregate terms—as time goes by. Many recipients now spend decades collecting benefits on a program that had been sold as a program only for people who were too old, exhausted, and injured to work at all. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer workers are called upon to foot the inflated bill.
These growing commitments from Social Security are further aggravated by the fact that while the retiree population is growing, growth in the work force is stagnating. Since 1960, the total number of Social Security recipients has increased by 364 percent. Meanwhile, the prime age population (age 25-54) has grown by only 90 percent. Put another way, in 1960, there were 4.6 prime age workers per Social Security recipient. In 2020, that number was 1.9.
Too bad it took so long, but one of the greatest foes of liberty in the Western World is finally relinquishing power.
“I no longer have enough in the tank” – an emotional Jacinda Ardern says she will quit next month as New Zealand PM.
As if there weren’t enough places for tax dollars to get flushed away, along comes this.
Having failed to eradicate a virus, the public health agency will now try to eradicate viral ideas.
Remember PREDICT, the research programme funded by the US Agency for International Development and carried out in partnership with EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota, with the goal of identifying potential emerging pandemic pathogens?
Well, the Centers for Disease Control now propose to take a similar approach to our thoughts. They’ve solicited grant applications from researchers pledging to “develop a public health tool to predict the virality of vaccine misinformation narratives.”
A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution, which can cause health and respiratory problems.
“This is a hidden hazard,” Richard Trumka Jr., an agency commissioner, said in an interview. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
As an intellectual exercise for a Sunday afternoon, try listing all the fallacies contained in this random Facebook post pertaining to pandemic policy. There could be enough to fill a small library. Whoever this person is, she’s not alone in promoting the fallacy that consensus is the measure of truth, and that dominant paradigms are only ever opposed by “a couple of discredited doctors” anyway.
The inevitable result of a philosophy that enshrines intellectual helplessness is a society in which nearly everyone unthinkingly accepts the ideas of the dominant authority figures no matter where they lead.
Coming soon.
Katie Hopkins explains the Oxford Council's approved plan to introduce climate lockdowns in 2024. This includes restricting travel into one of 6 zones. To leave a zone, you must ask permission from the council or face fines. Coming soon to a city near you. pic.twitter.com/uVinlnw7pJ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 2, 2023
The Reuters fact check- Oxfordshire County Council to trial congestion-reducing traffic filters, not a ‘climate lockdown’
Full video here. h/t Antenor