Daily Shaarli
July 19, 2024
Temperature and other driving conditions have an impact; Tesla doesn't meet range claims year round
In a new report, first shared with The Hill, analyzing public statements made by lawmakers, the think tank determined these climate deniers are all Republicans and include prominent members of House leadership.
It defined climate deniers as lawmakers who say any of the following: climate change is not real, it is not primarily caused by humans, the science is not settled on climate change, extreme weather is not caused by climate change, or climate change is actually beneficial. //
Fourth: "The science is not settled on climate change." This, again, isn't an unreasonable attitude because the science is not settled on climate change, and the science never will be settled on climate change, because that's not how the scientific method works. Science is not a philosophy, it is a tool, a method used to look at data and derive conclusions from it, to test hypotheses and develop theories that explain the data — the observations. Scientific theories are tentative, and are always open to being revised in light of new data; science is never "settled." That's not how this works; that's not how any of this works. //
While it's not necessarily an indicator of climate change or the lack thereof, it's important to note that human deaths due to severe weather have dropped by almost 99 percent in the last 100 years. //
The Center for American Progress, it must be noted, is not a scientific organization; it is a far-left activist group. This "analysis" is not an analysis at all; it is an attempt at a "gotcha," working backward from a conclusion, to try to make the point that anthropogenic climate change is something worth wrecking our economy and our modern technological lifestyle over. It also seeks to cast Republicans as the villains in the story. This isn't an analysis. It's not science, and it's not even remotely close to the scientific method; it is ideology couched in vaguely science-ish terms to make it sound plausible to the credulous.
In the wake of Saturday's failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the US Secret Service is still unable to explain how the incident happened, but it is devoting a lot of effort to defending the Secret Service agents who appeared to be flummoxed and a lot less than competent as former President Trump was evacuated to the hospital.
Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76
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DEI hire who couldn't find holster, hid behind Secret Service instead of jumping in.
Coward.
Women don't belong in that position.
4:08 PM · Jul 14, 2024 //
The physical fitness standards required are wildly different — a male doing four pull-ups fails the fitness test fails, a woman doing four pull-ups gets a max score. The physical fitness requirements are either related to the job or they are not; in that case, they would have difficulty surviving a legal challenge. If they are related to the job and men and women are required to do the same job, they must be the same. //
While the Secret Service is trying to make this a sex issue, it isn't. It is a competence issue. There is no issue with women on a presidential protective detail so long as the men and women meet the same objective, empirical standards. //
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo
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This is progress. We are creating a circle of connotations around "DEI" that associates it with failure, corruption, incompetence, and fraud. Keep pushing.
4:29 PM · Jul 18, 2024
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EU is planning power lines from the wind fields on the Atlantic down to the south – and from the sunny deserts up to the north.
MCAS was added on at the end as a high-tech Band-Aid to mitigate an unacceptable issue within the underlying MAX design.
Incompatible requirements had the MAX engineering team figuring out how to retrofit a large, next-generation engine (with fuel efficiency to compete with the Airbus A320neo) onto a legacy 737 airframe from 1968 without room for the new engine in the original mounting location. The team moved the engine mounting location forward and higher to fit the larger engine. The new mounting location was analyzed to cause an undesirable, increased tendency for this aircraft design to pitch upward (which can cause a stall in extreme situations).
Instead of pursuing other structural design options such as redesigning the landing gear, the team turned to the engineering elixir of automation. Sound engineering was outsourced to an autonomous MCAS computer with the authority to push the plane downward as it saw fit — tragically so in the 2018-2019 crashes.
An engineering team would not follow this course of action of its own accord. The legacy airframe was an issue; the new mounting location was an issue; inserting automation into the loop to smooth over these issues is unfathomable. Further investigation through a criminal trial should determine whether a trade study (engineering team’s comparative review of design options — a best practice) was conducted and, if so, who decided the outcome. //
Boeing is guilty of fraudulent behavior. But nothing about MCAS or individual engineer communications is the root cause. The grieving families and the public deserve to know who at Boeing directed the 737 MAX competitive strategy fundamentals and to see that party brought to justice.
Voters in Arizona who register with the state and do not provide proof of citizenship will be rejected.
Contrary to its name, Guelder rose is not a rose. Formerly it was a member of the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) but has recently been moved to a new family called Adoxa… you’ve got to love those crazy botanists and there new fangled genetic sequencing.
The Woodland Trust have a good description of Guelder rose here .
And it is also technically poisonous… if the fruits are eaten raw. But cooked and you’ll be experiencing something few folk have ever bothered tasting.
The berries when crushed have a strange smell, certainly one that doesn’t immediately incline you to befriend this plant. And when cooked they smell of musty old socks.
If you dab a drop of the raw juice on your tongue, you might recoil in disgust as the bitterness hits you.
But as I like to say to folk on my courses “The plant is never the problem, you are”. //
The fruits are antimicrobial and antibacterial. It contains large amounts of quercetin, a flavonoid which plays an important role in fighting free radical damage, as well as being great as an anti-inflammatory. Needless to say bigPharma is actively researching the fruits for new medicines.
That all aside… the fruits rock when prepared properly.
One lesson we need to take out of this is we should never allow any presidency to again take on a myth of Camelot. People attracted to power are some of the most selfish, venal, and narcissistic human beings. Callahan’s book moves us further toward acknowledging that ugly reality.
The story here is not that Max Boot is disgusting (he is) or that he was targeted for marriage (my speculation because Terry is definitely out of the league of women Boot was used to playing in) by Terry because his position at the Post gave her propaganda greater reach and her more Vuitton bags. The real story is how this happened. How long has the FBI known of Terry's side gig? Did anyone at the Washington Post have any curiosity or qualms about the op-eds he was co-writing with his wife? And when did Boot, the spy-catcher of Trump's first term, discover that his wife was a foreign agent of influence?
Carlson spoke to Trump Saturday evening after the former president dodged an assassin's bullet:
I think it changed him. I reached out to Trump within hours of it, that night, and what he said to me that night – he said not a single word about himself. He said only how amazed he was and proud he was of the crowd, which didn’t run.
Of course they didn't run. His courage gave them heart. A leader’s courage gives courage to his people.
For a man who's allegedly divisive and selfish (according to Democrats and the legacy media), Trump's actions since the assassination attempt have been anything but, Carlson said:
He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after he was shot...This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader that I’ve ever seen.