BBC- Spain heatwave: PM tells workers to stop wearing ties to save energy
Mr Sanchez said his government will adopt “urgent” energy-saving measures on Monday as European countries strive to become less dependent on Russian gas in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
If this keeps up we may soon see the dreaded flip flop offensive.
Heather Heying, one half of the excellent DarkHorse Podcast, published a very inspirational white-pill editorial this morning. It should resonated with a lot of SDA readers:
I have been hearing from people who feel very much alone. People who are grateful that I and many others are speaking up and out. We who speak up are publicly analyzing trends and claims. We refuse to kowtow to authoritarians, including the ones who wear lab coats or have fancy degrees or work at legacy institutions. And we call out bullshit when we see it. Because I am one such public voice who has been standing for science and against newspeak, I know this for sure: You are not alone.
You, the people whom I hear from, span all the demographic markers: young and old, rich and poor, so many skin colors and ethnicities and nationalities, religious affiliations and levels of education, politics and professions and predilections. What most of you do not have is the knowledge that there are many others like you—others who “feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about.” These others are likely walking on the very same streets that you walk on. They blend in. They self-censor. They are tired, and scared, and thus they are, mostly, mute.
There are bound to be hiccups.
On April 6, an autonomously driven truck fitted with technology by TuSimple Holdings Inc. suddenly veered left, cut across the I-10 highway in Tucson, Ariz., and slammed into a concrete barricade.
The accident, which regulators disclosed to the public in June after TuSimple filed a report on the incident, underscores concerns that the autonomous-trucking company is risking safety on public roads in a rush to deliver driverless trucks to market, according to independent analysts and more than a dozen of the company’s former employees. A TuSimple spokesman said safety is a top priority for the company and that nobody was injured in the accident. […]
The April incident involved a rig with a TuSimple driver and engineer aboard, and the company has repeatedly blamed the accident on human error. But details in the June regulatory disclosure, along with internal company documents, show what autonomous-driving-system specialists say are fundamental problems with the company’s technology.”
An internal TuSimple report on the mishap, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, said the semi-tractor truck abruptly veered left because a person in the cab hadn’t properly rebooted the autonomous driving system before engaging it, causing it to execute an outdated command. The left-turn command was 2 1/2 minutes old—an eternity in autonomous driving—and should have been erased from the system but wasn’t, the internal account said.
But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said it was the autonomous-driving system that turned the wheel and that blaming the entire accident on human error is misleading. Common safeguards would have prevented the crash had they been in place, said the researchers, who have spent decades studying autonomous-driving systems.
Via Phantom Soapbox
Now get rid of it. To save the planet. You horrible denier.
CBC- Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence
“Festival officials made sure that this year’s venue was more spread out and that hand sanitization stations were seen…”
It’s pretty safe to assume that more than just the venue was spread out.
But at least hand sanitizer was seen so I think we’re all good in terms of infection control at the “Up Your Alley” festival. Definitely no need for Two Weeks to Slow the Spread (of this particular thing) because that would infringe on rights and stuff. So just move along! Nothing to see here.
P.S: This is not “hypocrisy”. This is showing you who is the boss of you. This is the left, showing you how it’s done, trolling you and shoving their power right into your face. Sadly, the “right” and “conservatives” could learn from this type of thing but they are too busy enjoying losing elections to notice.
A sober reminder of historical injustice.
Slavery in the Pacific Northwest developed at some point between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, long before European contact, and at contact, slaves were clearly set apart from the existing tribal ranking system and prestige-seeking in the region. Early indigenous peoples also possessed other practices that predated contact with the British and Europeans: cannibalism and the killing of slaves, the latter of which also occurred and for a variety of reasons: funeral feasts, the building of a new home, a new title, the erection of a totem pole, or as part of the ceremony at potlatches. A Russian Orthodox priest recounted how in one Sitka ceremony where a new clan chief was appointed, four slaves were strangled as part of the ritual.
On another occasion, among both the Mowachaht and the Clayoquot, a slave was killed to celebrate the first whale kill of the season. In Tlinglit folklore, a memorial potlatch was necessary so fellow spirits in the village of the dead would not despise the newly deceased. The memorial included the murder of a slave. Among the Nuu-cah-nulth, a wolf dance also occasioned the taking of a slave’s life. Lastly, in one account of a ceremony at Fort Rupert, British Columbia, two female slaves were burnt as part of a ceremonial display, though they volunteered in the belief they would be resurrected four days hence. The regional slave trade was numerically smaller in absolute terms, though similar as a proportion of some local populations, ranging from almost nil to as high as 40%; the average was 15% of the local population.
There has been a rash of media handwringing because GOP superstars like Ron DeSantis are not allowing the media access to candidates or events. At the Sunshine Summit the other week in the Free State of Florida, Ruthless Ron and his superstar comms staff simply refused to allow the mutants in. Dave Weigel, apparently back on the job after his utter humiliation at the hands of some fussy girls at WaPo, was rejected and ejected and sat outside the velvet rope away from the action.
Good.
Related: The DiSantis campaign responds to an invite from The View
Read it and learn, Canadian conservatives. And fast.
The White House, CNN, and NY Times can pretend we’re not in a recession.
But…Manufacturing New Orders tank.
See the numbers in a new Cortes #ChalkTalk pic.twitter.com/MjellHVQN9
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) August 2, 2022
Rupa Subramanya- Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis
The court documents are part of a lawsuit filed by two Canadian residents against the government. Until last month, they were under seal.
Among other things, the court documents indicate:
No one in the COVID Recovery unit, including Jennifer Little, the director-general, had any formal education in epidemiology, medicine or public health.
Little, who has an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Toronto, testified that there were 20 people in the unit. When Presvelos asked her whether anyone in the unit had any professional experience in public health, she said there was one person, Monique St.-Laurent. According to St.-Laurent’s LinkedIn profile, she appears to be a civil servant who briefly worked for the Public Health Agency of Canada. St.-Laurent is not a doctor, Little said.
h/t William
The despicable George Soros has written an op-ed full of big lies that was recently published in the Wall Street Journal:
We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime. It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime. And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.
Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests, and increases in gun trafficking. Many of the same people who call for more-punitive criminal-justice policies also support looser gun laws.
As SF Bay resident, and SDA regular, Kenji, knows first hand, Soros’s “policies”, put into effect by the Progressive DAs he got elected, have been nothing short of a disaster.
And the weather in Costa Rica is just fabulous.
Biden’s America: This is just ridiculous. The Democrats fixate on gay marriage. The FBI and Hunter Biden. The fantasy of global elites. Old Joe hires Chinese apologist.
China Virus News: A list of studies. And its back. Your morning meme.
Woke Britain: White Privilege. The police and hate crimes. Britain’s gay police cars.
Trudeau’s Canada: Another CBC story about how racist Canada is. Apparently white Canadians need not apply. Justin received a portrait of Justin from the president of China. CBC celebrates the return of Drag Queen Story Time. Trudeau civil servants get rid of seat held by Bloc MP, who didn’t agree with his emergency measures act.
In Canada, we know this as the “publication ban”: Prominent Senator Predicts ‘Deal’ to Hide Hunter Biden Indictment From American People
“Herschel Walker will do what he’s told and that’s what Republicans want from their negroes.“
This evening we present one of my favourite films from days past, the bizarre & eclectic Buckaroo Banzai. The opening scene alone is well worth the price of admission!
Your most adventurous tips of the past week are mightily appreciated!
I know you’re not all into podcasts but this was released this morning and offers a comprehensive, detailed accounting of the incompetence & malice of many Deep State Actors over the past 2.5 years. Highly recommended listening.
We’re not even seeing much of an uptick in foreclosures at this point, but the fact that the mainstream media is picking up on the need for shoring up loan-loss provisions shows that someone, somewhere, is a little worried about the state of the housing market.
On top of burgeoning household debt and international exposure, another issue that could force the banks to build up these provisions is that the same supports that kept Canadians paying their loans at the height of the pandemic are no longer in play.
“The train has left the station, but it’s not off the rails yet,” Hoyes said. “People are depleting the rest of their savings, they’re using whatever deferrals they can get… But with each passing month, as interest rates go higher, as more mortgages roll over, car loans roll over, everything else rolls over, then the pressure builds and builds and builds.
Maybe now she can afford a proper haircut.
https://twitter.com/abdaniellesmith/status/1554143590578016257
As you have probably heard by now, our Dear Leader is burning jet fuel to Costa Rica. As for the rest of us, please remember to cut back on your fossil fuel usage this summer. Justin will be upset when he gets back, if you don’t. Update: Justin flew 26000 km in July.
More experts, more pencil pushers, expand the laptop class. If there’s not enough money fire more frontline staff. One administrator is like having five to ten extra nurses on the job. They are a force multiplier. (sarcasm alert)
Anthony Furey- It feels like so many things are falling apart in Canada
Jordan Peterson- Dutch Farmer Speaks