Do blind people watch sports? Even if they did, are they going to be able to read these uniforms? What about the people who DO watch sports? Can they read this?
Companies are just trying to pander to any and every special interest group that they can in a lame attempt to garner favor. In an effort to pander to the visually impaired, I am going to come up with a Braille condom.
When it comes to Red Flag orders and laws against felons carrying firearms, it’s often said that if a person can’t be trusted with a gun, they can’t be trusted without a custodian. That’s driven home when you hear about the guy in Nashville who has been arrested over 200 times in the last 5 years, but has been released every time without charges. Why? He isn’t competent to stand trial.
He’s known to steal hundreds of dollars of merchandise and services at a time. In all, he has cost Nashville area businesses tens of thousands of dollars. It’s only a matter of time before he injures or kills someone. It’s the mental health version of “diplomatic immunity.” There are some businesses where he has eaten 4 or 5 times and refused to pay. (Although why wouldn’t you trespass the guy after the first or second time?) There are more than 200 people in Nashville alone who are in the same exact situation. They offend over and over again, only to be released to do it again. It happens all over the country- most of the nation’s homeless are people with substance abuse and mental health problems.
Asylums were once used to house these individuals, but the system was abused by towns and families that wanted to avoid taking care of people who were incapable of caring for themselves by redefining what was then termed “senility” as a psychiatric problem and sending these men and women to state-supported asylums.
When I was running calls as a street medic, I was on a first name basis with dozens of homeless people who had all sorts of mental health issues. Even this week in the ED, I had a patient that was combative with mental health and substance abuse issues. We had to put her in 4 point restraints and a waist belt and then drug her with Haldol and Ativan. She will be discharged within a day or two, and then we will see her back at the ED in a couple of days or a week, wash, rinse, repeat.
Today, only a small number of the old psychiatric hospitals exist. Psychiatric care and treatment are now delivered through a host of services including crisis services, short-term and general-hospital-based acute psychiatric care units, and outpatient services ranging from twenty-four-hour assisted living environments to clinics and clinicians’ offices offering a range of psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments. Untold thousands of people with mental health issues fall through the cracks and wind up homeless, in jail, or simply wandering around, a drain on society.
The quality and availability of these outpatient services vary widely, making me wonder if “asylums,” in the true sense of the word, aren’t the best way to handle this. The issue here is that I don’t trust the powers that be to avoid doing what they did before- simply redefine things as being “mental illness” and using the asylum to lock people away for opposing climate change, trannies, or something else that they want to use as a cudgel.
The left is claiming that so much ground water has been pumped out of the Earth, that it is causing the planet’s rotational axis to tilt and is contributing to global warming/climate change. This is absurd, for multiple reasons.
First, the amount of water humans have pumped out is claimed to be 2.15×10^12 tons. The entire planet has a mass of 5.97×10^21 tons. The mass pumped is equal to 0.00000000036% of the mass of the planet, or 3 parts in 10 billion.
However, that mass didn’t simply disappear- the water is still here. In fact, with the exception of a couple of thousand gallons that went into space on spacecraft, man hasn’t removed any water from the planet. That isn’t what the idiots interviewed for CNN had to say:
In 2016, another team of researchers found that drift in Earth’s rotational axis between 2003 and 2015 could be linked to changes in the mass of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as the planet’s reserves of terrestrial liquid water.
In fact, any mass change on Earth, including atmospheric pressure, can affect its axis of rotation, Seo told CNN in an email.
The water that has been pumped out of the ground, the ice sheets, the glaciers, all of that mass is still here. It didn’t disappear.
The redistribution of groundwater tilted Earth’s rotational axis east by more than 31 inches (78.7 centimeters) in just under two decades, according to the models. The most notable driver of long-term variations in the rotational axis was already known to be mantle flow — the movement of molten rock in the layer between Earth’s crust and outer core. The new modeling reveals that groundwater extraction is the second most significant factor, Seo said.
31 inches in 20 years. That works out to 1.55 inches per year, with the circumference around the poles of about 15,800 miles, or just over 1 million billion inches. This means that the “shift” in the rotational axis is one part in a million billion. They use the position of Quasars to measure the position of Earth’s rotational axis. (this paragraph was edited to correct the error you see as a strikethrough)
The current gold standard for measurements of Earth’s rotation vector comes from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), which involves radio receivers around the world. The receivers use the slight differences in the times at which they detect sudden changes in the microwave emissions from very distant quasars to precisely determine their own positions. This information allows them to monitor small changes in Earth’s orientation with respect to these far-away objects. But it can take days to translate VLBI observations into the final, useful results. A rotation sensor at a single location could provide an independent measurement and could allow the data to be available continuously.
It’s a pretty precise measurement. They claim that they can use that to determine shifts in the rotational axis going back to the 1800’s.
Future models can use observations on Earth’s rotation to illuminate the past, Seo added. “The data is available since the late 19th century,” he said. With that information, scientists can peer back in time and trace changes in planetary systems as the climate warmed over the last 100 years.
Since quasars weren’t discovered until 1960, the means of measuring the rotational axis were limited until that time, and precise measurements of the Earth’s rotational axis were impossible to within 1 part per million, which is the precision needed to detect a 1 inch per year shift. In fact, the first measurement of the change of the rotational axis of the planet wasn’t made until 2011.
This is junk science.
As the left continues to crow that we need to switch to electric vehicles to save the planet, they are overlooking the fact that the nation just doesn’t have the electrical generating capacity to do that. As I post this, two thirds of the nation is facing the possibility of blackouts due to insufficient power generation capacity to handle the power demands of air conditioning that deals with the summer heat. Why? Because the nation’s electrical generating companies have been closing coal and oil fired power plants rather than pay for expensive repairs and upgrades caused by the government’s efforts to deal with “climate change.”
By 2035, automakers will have turned away from the internal combustion engine. The electric grid doesn’t have the capacity to charge all of those new cars, trucks and buses. This will cause an increase in electric demand that would require 50% more electricity than we generate now. There isn’t enough land area to rely on wind and solar for our current needs, much less adding that much more.
For example, Florida is second in the nation in electric vehicles with over 100,000 of them, but ranks 42nd in the infrastructure needed to charge them with 24 cars in the state for each charging station.
The fads of the last few decades:
Note that the new fad is claim to be a faggot. According to recent surveys, 1 in 5 young people claim to be transgender.
Edited: reader context claims it was parody. It’s hard to tell nowadays.
So news this morning says that Florida can’t tell tranny bars that it is illegal to have drag shows in front of kids because it is a limit on free speech. (As a side note, when I posted “Then how is it illegal for me to bring an 8 year old to Rachel’s?” (a local strip bar) that comment was deleted as “violating community standards”)
At the same time, people on social media who post online that they want to have a meetup at the beach are notified that they will be billed for costs of providing extra police in the area. How is that also not a limit on free speech? If I post “Hey, let’s have a meetup of preppers/gun owners/or whatever at New Smyrna Beach this weekend” and the police decide that they will hire extra cops on overtime to handle the excess crowds, they can bill me for the cost? And that isn’t considered a restriction on free speech?
If it isn’t, then why not simply do the same for tranny bars? Just say “We have declared that tranny bar drag shows are a “special event,” fines in this area will be doubled, and any violating vehicles will be impounded. In addition, the bar organizing the show will be held liable for costs and fees associated with enforcing the special-event zone. Since we estimate that 100 cops on overtime will be needed, that cost will equal eleventy thousand dollars per show.
A Federal judge in Massachusetts rules that a shirt that reads “there are only two genders” is not protected speech and “invades the rights of others” by targeting a “protected class.” (pdf alert) What this ruling contends is that some people have more rights than others, that trannies and other deviant individuals have more rights than others. There would be no action taken against a student wearing a shirt that reads “there is no god,” or one that says “I support trans rights because I am not an idiot.”
I agree with the line of thought that a school should prohibit any activity or speech that interferes with the main mission of the school: education. The maintenance of effective control over the classroom is necessary for the learning environment that is needed for students to learn. Anyone who has tried to teach anyone (child or adult) knows that the classroom needs to be conducive to learning. Distractions like political discussions interfere with that and need to be controlled.
The problem with the situation that we read about here is that action is only being taken against one disruption while the school actively supports other disruptions by having gay pride parties and discussions. The shirt that I pictured above would be allowed because it supports the tranny/leftist agenda. It’s not the dress code itself that Morrison spoke out against, but the illegitimate, arbitrary, and unequal way school personnel enforced it against him for his disfavored political views. The same school that prohibits a shirt reading “there are only two genders” freely hung pride flags and diversity posters throughout the school, so they aren’t opposed to the disruption, they are just trying to make sure that all disruptions are of one end of the political spectrum. The school even takes a day off for the holidays of Juneteenth, Indigenous People’s Day, and MLK day, and spends the month of June celebrating pride month, but no holiday for President’s day. It’s clear that the school district is run by hard core leftists.
That is how they are grooming the children of their town- by repeatedly exposing them to leftist messaging while denying those students from seeing an opposing viewpoint. That is the definition of restricting free speech and this decision will hopefully be appealed and struck down.
Should there be no recourse in the legislature or the courts, people may well begin to take action on their own.
To continue yesterday’s discussion of technological luddites, today we will talk about Wifi allergies. People are allergic to WiFi, or so they claim. They say that exposure to electromagnetic fields is making them sick, and many of them literally resort to wearing tin foil hats. There are many cases on the Internet of people who claim to be sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
They are full of crap. Let me explain why. When I was in the Navy, one of my jobs was to minimize the ship’s magnetic field in order to avoid magnetically triggered mines and torpedoes. We did this with a system of magnetic coils and a computer that analyzed the ship’s location on the planet, and ran electricity through coils that opposed the natural magnetic field of the ship as it passed through the earth’s magnetic field.
Magnetic fields are subject to the inverse square law. The farther away you are from the object generating a magnetic field, the weaker that field. One unit of measure for magnetic fields generated by electrical currents is microwatts per cubic centimeter, and the safe level is determined by the frequency of the field being generated. Safe limits for EMF in the frequency band that WiFi operates in is about 1,000 microwatts per square centimeter. The safe level of EMF at the frequency of household current (60 hz) is 100,000 microwatts per cubic centimeter.
A WiFi router has a field density of about 50.5 uW/cm^2 at the device, but that quickly drops with distance. Six feet away, that field has dropped by 99.6% to only 0.2 uW/cm^2.
Refer back to the woman who claimed that her husband’s smartwatch was making her ill. At three feet, a smartwatch is putting out a field of 0.11 uW/cm^2. Then there are the people who are allergic to cell phone towers. When I am 1,000 feet from my closest tower, I measure that field at 0.001 uW/cm^2. In other words, nearly nothing. But good enough for 5 bars!
Every one of the people who claim to be allergic to EMF are self diagnosed. Multiple studies of this phenomenon have been performed, and in each case they react when told that the WiFi is on, but don’t react when it is turned on without their knowledge. In short, it’s a mental health issue and not a real problem.
Similar to what we are seeing with transgenderism. People are just dealing with mental health issues, and the Internet is giving them a voice.