Politics and science, humor and hypocrisy. METANOODLE
A quote from The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: "They were always obsessed by their own problems; they listened in raptures to the beating of their heart; anything served as a pretext for them to probe their souls in order to produce a spate of words"
"Only a fool pays the full price for a second-rate product. Only a fool believes real-world contact can be delivered secondhand by Zoom. Our colleges may teach the higher foolishness, but the cost of higher education — ahead of inflation every year since 1980, and devalued accordingly — is a lesson in popular credulity."
About 8 percent of the human genome consists of retroviral DNA sequences that have inserted themselves into the human germline, where some of their functions have been adopted to serve essential functions for their host’s survival and development.
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| Young and Poor |
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“Newly released Congressional testimony shows that Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence.” “As for Mr. Schiff, no one should ever believe another word he says.”The WSJ editorial is behind a paywall but a goodly chunk is excerpted at foxnews.com/opinion.
This list shows who got eavesdropping material on General Flynn that should have been unavailable. Names include Joe Biden, John Brennan, and Obama's chief of staff. It was collected as part of overseas spying by the NSA and someone asked to unmask the name of an American citizen who was "incidentally" in the conversation. Someone specifically asked to find out who he was and what he said. This list is not a list of all the un-maskings out there during those three months. It's a list of people who wanted to know about General Flynn specifically. There was no approved pathway to do this directly but they piggybacked on foreign snooping to get around the rules. The names were published today by Acting DNI Grennell. There is also snooping done within the USA by the FBI and this is not referenced. Click to EMBIGGEN
Commenter Chojun at Conservativetreehouse adds: "Note that Obama’s Chief of Staff requested to unmask Flynn on Jan 5th – the same date of Obama’s “By the book” meeting." Also: These are word for word transcripts, not summaries that were being circulated.
There are at least 8 promising vaccines in active global development, not just one.
Vaccines can last a lifetime (smallpox) or five years (shingles, tetanus). No one knows how this will work for the Wuhan flu virus. To date, no one anywhere has developed a vaccine against a coronavirus (SARS is a coronavirus).
The Wuhan virus (before it enters your cells ) has three sites than can be targeted with a neutralizing antibody: Each works differently. There's the capsid N protein and on the S spike are sites S1 and S2.
Once the ADA passed, my stutter makes me a member of a “protected class.” ... I could have accused them of failing to “accommodate the disabled,” as the law requires. Even if I didn’t win, the lawsuit would be expensive. It’s safer for employers to avoid members of “protected classes.” Far-fetched? Look at the stats:
Before the ADA passed, 59% of disabled men had jobs. After it passed, the number fell to 48%. Today, fewer than 30% have jobs. Once again, a law that was supposed to help people did the opposite of what politicians intended.
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| This isn't Sarah's real picture but fun anyhow |
"Even had the Xi disease been as lethal as the stupid model said, and set to kill a million people (out of a population of 300 million) it might be the lesser cost. Yes, go ahead, it’s callous and I want people to die, as all the trolls say. ......realize the choices are "death" and somewhat "less death, maybe", and think that the “less death, maybe” is on the side of not destroying the economy.
"Why were we doing this all in a rush and following a completely unproven strategy, rather than actually taking a few days and working through “Who is most at risk” and then protecting THOSE people? I mean, if we were going to confine the healthy with the sick, shouldn’t we know which of the healthy were likely to become sick, first?
"We know now the chances of your catching this out of doors, or in any situation you’re not shut in with someone infected and sneezing (the myth of asymptomatic spreaders appears to be just that, a myth.
"I have had idiots tell me that fat Jared’s orders are “the law” as if he were the emperor or something. [She is writing from Colorado] .... I can’t begin to tell you how incoherent that makes me. It’s not the law, and it is unconstitutional.
As Das Bild put it, this was possibly the greatest criminal insanity the West ever committed upon itself
"NOW that we know that opening does not in fact bring a huge death toll, what are we doing?
Most sane, normal people — are sick to death of this, and there is a seething anger everywhere. But the politicians are trying to hang on to just a little bit more glory. ... Inconsistences, panic and outright crazy decisions... I’ve lived under regimes that rules arbitrarily. Totalitarians, drunk on power, and using their position for petty revenge.
People are humoring you now – sort of --- but it won’t last.
Destroy the state economy and you’re done."
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| "An average of the inherent fluorescence in the brains of mice imaged using serial two-photon tomography" |
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| "The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework (CCFv3), a 3D reference atlas" |
Text for the video: “This video depicts a fusion of data in the CCF frameworkThe background grayscale image represents the average anatomy of 1675 individual specimens forming the basis for the common coordinate system.The colored curved lines represented sampled streamlines. The mouse cortex is a 3D sheet organized into layers where connection between the layers are typically perpendicular to the surface, suggesting a hypothetical columnar organization.”
The ghost in the machine or operating system prefers its own protocols and needs to be given baked-in guidance from the animal to pay attention to the animal's needs.
Happy to oblige. Falling in love is great. Sweet and salty is tasty in a high value meal of carbs, protein and fat.
"He governs best who governs least" I believe Thoreau's point is true. "Least" will vary with the hazard of a situation. 
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
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| Mining asteroids will compete with earth mines. They can be staggeringly rich in nickel, platinum, and gold. Remember the gold on earth was made in the sun and migrated outwards before ending up here. |
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| Everybody loves this artist's impression |
The expanded article is at American Thinker.“Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th,” Kemp posted to Twitter on Saturday."
Quite a few Sidney roads have spots of iron with rust tails sloping away. Where did the asphalt mix come from? I've seen it nowhere else in Canada. My favourite example is the bicycle lane west of the Airport where this picture was taken.
"The Oscars and the Emmys: If the big, broad, general audience you used to have is gone, and deep down you think it’s never coming back, then why not make a harder bid for the loyalty of the smaller audience you’ve got left? In a time when the entertainment industry is (or thinks it is) a one-party state with no dissenters, you had better echo that politics back to your base. What were once cultural institutions with a broad, bipartisan audience are becoming niche players with a narrow fan base. They no longer view partisan politics as a dangerous move that will shrink their audience."
"Thucydides noticed this. ... The great historian wrote that in a time of civil war certain words changed their usual meanings and took on new ones. For example, “reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question inaptness to act on any.” It’s not only civil war that produces such linguistic deformations. Any crisis will do...
“The new normal.” Is there a more nauseating flake of smug linguistic presumption? I think that the imperative “stay safe,” born of our coronavirus panic, comes close. But “the new normal” is worse because it pretends to knowledge not just solicitude.
Julie Kelly raised a question that has to have been on the minds of many people. What if “social distancing” doesn’t work?
“We have,” she notes “been assured by the credentialed class that keeping a distance of six feet between healthy people for weeks on end was the only tried-and-true way to prevent the deadly spread of the novel coronavirus.” But what does the evidence show? We’ve shuttered the economy for almost two months. We’ve destroyed trillions in wealth. We’ve put millions out of work. We’ve denied tens of thousands of people access to medical care for anything except treatment of the coronavirus. We’ve imperiled hospitals across the country.
This kind of granular data is increasingly probative. It predates the Wuhan wet market misdirection. The Communist Party of China knew there was trouble and dissimulated from the start, shaping the narrative.
