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Jan 142022
 

Seems to me that there is an opportunity to develop locks on the containers that are hooked up to high voltage + high amperage systems, or explode, release chlorine, emit napalm… something. At the very least automated systems that detect looters and not only photograph them but lash out with hooked whips that take DNA samples. Those identified are put into databases and never again receive any assistance from the taxpayer. The same databases that Antifa insurrectionists and terrorists need to be on.

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 2:51 pm

Wheeeeeee!!!!

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Jan 142022
 

New infections of Xi’s Disease are shooting upwards like a Falcon 9. This trend has been going on for right at about a month. It kinda-sorta looks like *maybe* the curve is starting to bend *slightly* in the direction of flattening, but unless it does so soon, the CDC will have to start digging up dead folks and importing foreigners to keep these numbers up. Soon there will be a million confirmed cases a day, and quite possibly more than that. At some point there won’t be more people to infect.

 

But actual deaths remain vaguely consistent, at ~1500 per day:

 

 

 

 Posted by at 9:28 am

That’s…. that’s a *lot* of tumors

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Jan 142022
 

This is kinda remarkable… as much for the fact that it seems to have not been dealt with as for what it is. Maybe it’s untreatable, but you’d think that modern surgery and such could have at least kinda-sorta kept this in check. As it is, it looks like he will lose vision pretty soon unless something is done.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/1oj1rds26o

I don’t doubt that there are some massive medical bills here. But I also would bet a nickle that there are a lot of doctors who would fly across the planet to treat such problems among third worlders for free; you’d think that they’d be willing to do the same for an American in need. You’d think. But then… maybe there’s not much that can be done here. Shrug.

 Posted by at 1:00 am

Translating English into English

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Jan 122022
 

When I lived in Utah I’d occasionally go on trips throughout the southwest. Far from civilization, radio stations would fade out and sometimes the only stations that came in were native American language stations… Navajo and such like. It was always interesting to listen to those for a bit; you could often figure out roughly what they were discussing because their conversations were so heavily laden with English loan-words. A lot of those folks half a limited grasp of English; this is a category of “person who lives within the confines of the United States” that I don’t have a problem with them not learning English or assimilating into American culture. It’s probably not *wise* for them to not assimilate; it leaves them on the outside. But in their case, I see no ethical or moral problem for them choosing to be on the outside, since the outside kinda came up and swallowed them.

A similar situation, I imagine, exists in Australia with the Aborigines. They have their own languages and a lot doubtless don’t understand English. So it makes sense for Important Government Messages to be translated for them. But *this* message from Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan about the importance of getting vaccinated… I have to question the utility of the translation.

 Posted by at 10:44 pm

Same story, two very different headlines

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Jan 092022
 

First headline, a sad story of an accident:

A good Samaritan died after trying to save a man who fell on the subway tracks in New York City

People just fall onto trains tracks, it seems.

But then:

Man hit, killed by subway train while saving man from gang assault, NYPD says

Huh.

To be fair, both *articles* tell much the same story, and both include remarkably clear security camera images showing the numerous individuals wanted by the police in  relation to the attempted murder (now felony murder, it would seem). But it’s strange the way the first headline obscures the real story.

 Posted by at 8:14 am

Anti-Bigly

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Jan 082022
 

Regardless of your general opinion of Tucker Carlson, he’s on the money with this monologue about the unfortunate results of the recent explosion in the US population (it has gone up about 65 percent just in my lifetime). The idea of the US reaching a *billion* people, most of whom would almost certainly be third worlders with little interest in truly adopting American ideals, culture, language, etc., is basically horrifying.

And he’s right about where people want to live. As COVID made it sot hat people worked from home, and could thus live wherever the want, people rushed to get away from high population density urban areas and flooded into low population density rural areas. Just a few months before the pandemic hit I did the exact opposite, moving from rural Utah to somewhere far less open and free. Shrug. Had I known then what I know now… dunno. Maybe if I’d waited a couple years I could have sold my place in Utah for a *fortune.*

 

As an aside: in my Zaneverse stories, space operas set about 500 years from now, the three most populace planets in human space are Mars, Atlantis and Asgard. All have a population of about 50 million. All have had that population for a few hundred years, with little prospect of the populations increasing. Because after The Fall and The Bottleneck, humans necessarily got a lot smarter. Mars, completely terraformed at this point, is seen as horribly overpopulated, while Atlantis and Asgard, roughly Earthly and also completely terraformed, are seen as optimally populated. And yet people have *large* families generally. How is this sustained? By people getting the hell out of Dodge as soon as they can. There is a constant urge to get away from massive population centers and head out for the frontier. Of course the frontier is more often than not a new Habitat, a pair of rotating cylinders miles in diameter and more miles long, floating in the asteroid belt of this or that solar system. With good AI, easy nuclear fusion power and propulsion, and five centuries worth of advancement in manufacturing technology, the resources of asteroids and comets means that *billions* of this state-sized habitats can be built, almost free of charge, in any decent solar system.

A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. But this time, without the cynicism.

 Posted by at 2:25 am

So… how’s that “shut down the virus” thing going?

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Jan 062022
 

Let’s check in again:

Oh my.

As the Rice Rabies continues to surge rather spectacularly, actual deaths remain kinda-sorta static at between 1000 to 1500 per day. Once again, this indicates that at least for the moment the Commie Cough is becoming better at infecting people, but is becoming less dangerous at the same time (more infections with no increase in deaths = less deadly, statistically).

So far, according to this some 832,000 Americans have dies of Xi’s Disease. Uncertainty remains over just exactly how many of those people actually died of the disease, how many died of it because they were already dying of something else, and how many died of something else, but had the disease and their deaths were simply chalked up to the China Syndrome. We’ll probably never know with anything remotely resembling certainty.

 

 

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