Only Suckers Pay Their Way

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On fare-dodging progressives, who freeload altruistically:

“I don’t pay,” said a 35-year-old man wearing an orange puffy vest and clutching a beige shoulder bag and a banana. The man said he earns $75,000 working for an Oakland-based climate nonprofit. “Muni should be free, to make it accessible.”

Or, my activist lifestyle should be subsidised by others, the less important.

A 25-year-old research associate for a Google-owned subsidiary who also earns $75,000 a year said she almost never pays the fare. “I’d say 99% of the time, I just walk on,” she said, adding that she saw everyone else doing it when she moved to the city three years ago. “It’s like a San Francisco thing, I guess.”

Ah, that community spirit, a triumph of fairness over selfishness, in a city of good people. Good people who steal as a matter of routine. Because when it comes to paying their way, well, they’d rather not.

Oh, there’s more.

Smear Campaign

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Now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is playing on the other team, it’s clear that the knives are out. Heather Heying and Brett Weinstein review a recent hit piece in The Atlantic regarding RFK’s promotion of cooking with beef fat as opposed to seed oils, as if advocating the use of animal fat could never by anything but a conspiracy theory. The article is a classic example of pre-emptive stigmatization. As Heying relates:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s view on fats is is about bucking convention, not promoting health. And so let’s just start with that with that subtitle, which again, the author, you know, may not have anything to do with the title of the subtitle, but I’ve seen this critique before. It’s, oh, he’s just a contrarian. And we’ve been called just contrarians. And it’s one of actually the most insipid and wrong and ridiculous contentions that actual scientists can be can be slapped with.

Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under

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Via Doomberg;

If there is a place on Earth where wind and solar technologies should work, it is Australia. The country’s vast coastline and diverse geography bestow nearly ideal conditions for wind energy turbines, and the sun shines brightly and consistently. According to a detailed country-by-country analysis by the World Bank Group, Australia ranks near the top in global solar potential, and some of its largest commercial solar farms can achieve capacity factors in excess of 40%—roughly four times Germany’s average annual performance. By further comparison, similar facilities in the US average about 25%. […]

Alas, as sure as night follows day, wherever renewable sources of electricity penetrate a grid to any meaningful extent, skyrocketing prices and electricity shortages are sure to follow. No country — not even Australia — holds veto power over the laws of physics.

Sky News documentary (1hr): The shocking truth of the renewable energy push

Pushing The Panic Button

There Goes The Narrative Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 14 Comments

Lets just call it… SNAFU.

Trust The Evidence- Adapt to the Frenzy: the ‘Quad-demic’

The Guardian reports the number of hospitals ‘with flu’ in England has more than quadrupled compared with last year.’ We’re told that the UKHSA is currently monitoring the activity levels of four illnesses that all peak throughout winter: Flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus.

Nothing To See Here

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Spectator- The column you don’t want to read

Yet the biggest public health debacle in world history has been subject to a wilful public amnesia, as if it never happened. Surely you’ve noticed yourselves that the subject never arises in conversation, when so recently the C-word was all we could talk about. By ‘debacle’ I meant, of course, not the spread of the virus itself, but the spread of unprecedented, anti-democratic political overreach; of irrational, superstitious micromanagement of the disgusting, infectious proles; and of the high-handed, wholesale cancellation of civil rights.

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