Category: New Rules

Sparky Cars Go Boom

The Telegraph- Damaged electric cars ‘quarantined’ over fears they will explode

Electric cars that sustain minor bumps are being kept 15 meters apart in repair yards over fears they might explode, adding to insurance bills.

Government guidelines recommend electric vehicles with damaged batteries should be “quarantined” from other vehicles due to the risk of battery fires. Damaged batteries pose a risk of “thermal runaway” where the energy stored in the battery releases rapidly, creating temperatures of up to 400C.
But the practice threatens to increase costs for the insurance industry by more than £600m, costs which ultimately could be passed onto drivers in increased premiums, according to a report by automotive risk firm Thatcham Research.

Competence Is Problematic

I’ll give you one example [of ‘equity’ double standards] that came across my desk, and which is so typical. The American Board of Internal Medicine is a sophisticated organisation that licenses and gives exams to people who want to become board-ready doctors in internal medicine. It’s a very difficult, long exam, traditionally, [but] now has this “diversity” initiative – they are going to go through all of the exams they administer and get rid of the questions that do not give equal outcomes for [all racial] groups, on the theory that these questions don’t recognise the “latent equality” of all groups.

On self-flattering fantasies; on a bedlamite horror story; and on ‘equity’ versus competence.

Showing Up To Riot

Still true.

Matt’s response to his critics is a master class in addressing the timeless refrain that we must moderate our speech in order to win over those offended by unvarnished truths — and not a single response to his answering to their complaints is in the least bit persuasive. In fact, many of those Walsh answered quite ostentatiously walked back their earlier criticism, or tried rather transparently to defend it while simultaneously proclaiming that they stood with Walsh from the get go.

This, I submit, is a major step forward.

Your Competence Is Problematic

We’ve gone through endless challenges to, and jettisoning of, entrance exams for police and firefighting in this country on disparate impact grounds. In New York City, there were decades of litigation brought against the firefighters’ exam, which expected firefighters to be able to read instructions on their gear, to be able to understand the chemical components of various firefighting foams and whatnot, and blacks failed that test of reading and cognitive skill at much higher rates than whites. So, the test had a disparate impact on blacks, even though the test was not discriminatory… But it was thrown out because it had a disparate impact.

On “diversity” versus competence, and the stupefying effects of “disparate impact” ideology.

New Rules

Axios;

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.

What more can Saskatchewan do to keep the lights on?

Saskatchewan power production on Jan. 15. SaskPower

Premier Scott Moe said on Monday that federal electricity regulations will soon mean that even with carbon capture, neither coal (in 2030) or natural gas (in 2035) will be allowed.

On Sunday, 42% of our power came from natural gas, and 41% came from coal. Another 12% came from hydro.

1% came from wind

Ottawa, we have a problem.

Revolutionary violence

If prosecutors had devoted half the resources they must have consumed in an attempt to deny bail to Tamara Lich, maybe this guy would still be in custody and that police officer might still be alive.

A man charged in the shooting death of a Southwestern Ontario OPP officer was released on bail six months ago while facing charges including assaulting a police officer and possessing a handgun, court records show.

McKenzie, of no fixed address at the time, was arrested on Dec. 1, 2021, and charged with a dozen offences including assault with a weapon, assaulting a peace officer, assault, possession of a firearm without a licence, carrying a concealed weapon, mischief and possession of counterfeit money.

Woke Hockey

AP News- NHL, its workforce 84% white, sets baseline to up diversity

“The whole purpose behind doing a workforce study is to provide a baseline: a fact-based baseline so that you can begin to develop very intentional and specific strategies around where you need to hire, how you need to hire, how you need to improve your brand,” said Kim Davis, the NHL’s executive vice president of social impact, growth and legislative affairs.

Welcome To The Clown Quarter

Regarding those rubber boobs and the subsequent contortions of ‘progressive’ commentators:

Two thoughts occur. Firstly, he is not a she. The teacher in question is a forty-something man with a mental health problem, and children should not be coerced to pretend otherwise. Secondly, using the word traumatising to mock or dismiss the children’s possible feelings on the subject is a sly evasion, a deflection by hyperbole. It seems more likely that some pupils will find the educator’s behaviour distracting, uncomfortable or obnoxiously gratuitous. A piss-take or shit-test at their expense.

Female students, for instance, may not feel entirely affirmed by a grotesque parody of their sex being enacted daily by a supposedly grown man, to whom they are expected to defer. Some may see such behaviour as an imposition, a provocation, a wilful overstepping of boundaries. Which of course it is. Whether the motive is lawsuit-trolling – “I’m an oppressed sexual minority, I dare you to fire me” – or just an unhinged narcissistic compulsion. Neither of which bode well for any involuntary participants.

Oh, there’s more.

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