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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything, this video from the Family Policy Institute of Washington argues:

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Dave says:

April 20, 2016 at 6:09 pm

They’re so open minded that their brains have fallen out. The students are literally incapable of admitting that it’s OK to say no to someone perpetrating an obvious fraud, like expecting to be referred to as a Chinese lesbian even though you’re a male. Our society is doomed.
Slovenian Guest says:

April 21, 2016 at 2:37 am

You don’t believe your lying eyes? Good!
Slovenian Guest says:

April 21, 2016 at 2:46 am

Here is Dinesh D’Souza debating some asylum inmates at Amherst College.
Lucklucky says:

April 22, 2016 at 10:59 am

Never old: I want to be a woman.
Slovenian Guest says:

April 26, 2016 at 1:52 pm

From A Generation of Cheap Sardonics, by Davis M.J. Aurini:

Narcissism is a theme that runs throughout the writings of The Last Psychiatrist. If you’re watching it, it’s for you. It’s a slippery concept. Each time you think you’ve nailed it down – there it goes, skittering away into the shadows. Are you laughing at the stupid depravity of Honey Boo boo and her trashy family? You’re the target audience for that pablum; feeling self-righteous over your own mediocrity is the whole point. Holden Caulfield slinks about the outskirts of society, calling everyone else a phony; meanwhile cynical moderns reject and ridicule sincerity, while slavishly subscribing to a porn star’s twitter. When you believe in nothing you can’t be duped – except, of course, you’ll be duped by everything.

(sardonic, adjective, grimly mocking)

McChuck: Anybody who has ever played a wargame can tell you that your defenses can handle a certain amount of opposition, but when enemy numbers, regardless of quality, exceed that number, you get overrun. The mobs in Mogadishu back in 1993 weren’t well organized, weren’t well equipped, weren’t well trained, and weren’t well led. But there sure were a whole lot of them shooting at the Rangers.
Russell: New article about Thorp https://archive.ph/fq5JC
Phileas Frogg: The class divide in the US is as deep and wide as any as has existed in history, but instead of acknowledging the divide, much less trying to bridge it, we have chosen moralization and mutual animosity, which will be the death of us.
Freddo: https://www.zerohedge.co m/geopolitical/us-drones -are-expensive-and-error -prone-so-ukraine-turns- china
Jim: The principle applies whatever the source of the wall-penetrating radio waves in question.
Phileas Frogg: In conjunction with the Rob Henderson excerpt one can safely conclude that neither drug use, nor sexual immorality, can be meaningfully correlated with class. “But poverty causes crime!” Does it?
Bruce: Green energy is a patronage fraud, and Terraform Industries is working with it. But their tech isn’t a fraud.
Handle: What is Henderson taking about? I was under the impression that it was a broadly believed meme and one frequently portrayed in popular entertainment for several generations before Henderson was born that college kids got drunk and enjoyed / experimented with recreational drugs quite a lot. Maybe Rob’s poorer friends couldn’t afford to watch those episodes of South Park or didn’t hear about George W Bush’s “youthful indiscretions”? Man, the left really is...
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Bruce: Very glad to see @TerraformIndies here. This could be really big. For example, why not put a Terrform Indies converter on every nuclear power plant in front of those electric heaters in the cooling towers? Closer to where people need natural gas than oil wells where they just burn the natural gas off because it’s not worth transport costs. And if CO2 is bad, like the climate change people say, it’s great to have a way to turn CO2 to something useful. And worse case, it’s a...
Namur: Well, it’s all about EROI (Energy Returned on Invested). Can this machine produce more energy in the form of natural gas than it consumes in the first place? Also, the energy to build and operate it also counts. Now, let’s say that it works: we are still far away for something like it that works for Diesel, the holy grail of our energy society.
Wawa: Misery causes drug abuse, whether rich or poor. Junkies and drunks are just self medicating in a self destructive way. When thousands of American soldiers, who were hooked on heroin, returned from Vietman the vast majority quickly kicked the habit. With the reason for their misery gone they stopped using. I noticed this first hand, when a buddy moved in with his girlfriend. Before she moved in he was a social drinker, after a few months with her he was an alcoholic. When she moved out he fully...
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Freddo: The armies of Ukraine and Russia are showing what can be done if it needs to be ready tomorrow and everything is expandable. Boeing is showing what happens when the procurement channel is filled with DEI hires.
Jim: Fun! https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=bIVzK-h6qao
McChuck: Laser designators also use a coded pulse system. That avoids spoofing and also enables multiple projectiles to be inbound to separate targets simultaneously.
Lucklucky: Yes, one aircraft where that is clear is the Tornado. Under its chin it has the Laser Range Finder and Marked Target Seekers (LRMTS), a laser ranging device to help calculate distances, speed, etc. for the ballistic computer and navigation. If it wants to designate targets for laser guided weapons it needs an external pod like TIALD or LITENING put into a pylon.
Isegoria: The Black Cat Squadron Wikipedia entry explains: During the squadron’s 14 years of existence, five U-2s were shot down by PRC air defenses (using S-75 Dvina missiles), with three pilots killed and two captured. Another pilot was killed while performing an operational mission off the Chinese coast, while seven U-2s were lost during training missions, killing six pilots.
Natureboi: It sounds like both pilots survived. This is not what “deadliest” means. Since Annie doesn’t even know what words mean, we should assume the rest of her story is also bullshit.

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