This is one of the best videos I've seen covering the Lahaina, Maui fire disaster.
Buyer's remorse. So now Oregonians sour on Measure 110.
Buyer's remorse. So now Oregonians sour on Measure 110.
Buyer's remorse. So now Oregonians sour on Measure 110.
Maui is getting front row seats at how incompetent their Democrat governance is. Maui community expresses collective rage. They need tourism to survive, but people are cancelling. Lahaina is off-limits, of course, and you have to pass through Lahaina to get to Ka'anapali Resort. Biden's visit was a political disaster. How tone-deaf and stupid. Worse than Bush and Katrina. Where are Hawaii's senators and congressmen? Why aren't they trying to get help? Now they admit that the death count could be over 1000. And it's revealed that those who went around the police blockades are the ones who survived. Why were there police blockades anyway?
Grants Pass petitions SCOTUS to hear their case regarding illegal homeless camping. Hope this will overturn Martin vs Boise. The Brown vs City of Phoenix case seems to be in their favor.
Portland college students - more liberal, less religious, smoke more weed. Tomorrow's leaders, huh? Most will go into academics or politics, I predict.
Tina Kotek wants Portlanders to help revive the city. The problem is that the only ones who care to venture into the city seem to be the ones doing the destroying. And fentanyl continues to score up wins against Oregon's efforts.
The greenies really don't want nuclear. This article says nuclear is too expensive and dangerous, but relies a lot on data from France's nuclear experience, which is old technology, instead of discussing some of the new developments with small reactors. Wind energy yields are too low and not reliable. Solar output is also relegated to certain parts of the world where sunlight is steady and strong enough. But the energy density is low compared with nuclear (and petroleum). One hailstorm can take out a lot of solar panels, and hydroelectric power is expensive and can impact local economies. These are not discussed in the paper.
Seattle police will no longer respond to mental health crisis calls. Only social workers. Hope no one gets shot.
There's a school for tyrants. In Tanzania, Beijing is running a training school for authoritarianism. Just what the world needs, eh?
Andy Ngo wins $300,000 damages from Antifa. Justice, finally.
Sick. Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living. Some people will do anything to get other people's money.
Multnomah County warns it may not have enough jail beds if Oregon doesn’t increase funding. I think Multnomah County just needs to die, already. They haven't learned their lesson and never will.
The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15. TransUnion needs to clean up their act. And if you're not using a service like DeleteMe, you should.
Why are conservatives happier than liberals? Daily Signal thinks that conservatives tend to be married. Also that conservatives “expressed greater personal agency, more positive outlook, more transcendent moral beliefs, and a generalized belief in fairness” compared with liberals. I don't think that this is the answer. Some even doubt the premise, claiming that "liberals tend to display more signs of happiness, as evidenced by uploading more smiling photographs on Linkedin and posting more positive tweets on Twitter". That also sounds specious. I think it's because conservatives express gratitude way more than liberals. This often comes from a grounding in religious belief, as liberals tend to be atheists or agnostics, and the concept of gratitude comes only when they get unexpected free stuff, usually sent by some anonymous stranger on the Internet. Other than that, it's back to complaining about things. But feeling gratitude is one of the benefits of meditation and it makes you less of an angry person.
More on the Lahaina fire, from Axios. 850 deaths suspected now.
IBM thinks that 40% of workers will need to re-tool their skills. And it looks like STEM will not be needed as much because the interface will be human language. They project less need for programmers now.
Lahaina before the fire.
Maui death toll is a lot higher than official numbers, residents believe. If you watch the videos where the local government talks to reports, it's so clear that the mayor is an thug, and seems to be making excuses for all the blunders.
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Electricity map. Very nice infographic about where the world gets its electricity.
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Kelowna, B.C. is in flames. Even worse than Lahaina, it looks like the Eagle Creek fire of 2017. There are so many fires, Wikipedia already has a page about this.
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ChatGPT is left-wing. No surprise, since Silicon Valley is mostly left-wing.
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Electricity map. Very nice infographic about where the world gets its electricity.
Shit-life syndrome. There's a name for this:
"The phrase seemed to denote a level of long-standing poverty, family breakdown, lack of stability, unemployment and potential risk factors common to many of the predominately young, working class patients referred to the [psychotherapeutic] service" for shit is "something that we continually reject, get rid of or hide. At the same time it is something we cannot completely repudiate, it is part of us, something we need" and that the individuals with SLS have problems so "terrible, so untouchable" that they "quite literally cannot be thought about, cannot be handled by the service", yet a therapeutic organisation is "obliged to do so"
Kelowna, B.C. is in flames. Even worse than Lahaina, it looks like the Eagle Creek fire of 2017. There are so many fires, Wikipedia already has a page about this.
ChatGPT is left-wing. No surprise, since Silicon Valley is mostly left-wing.
X/Twitter has deleted all images and link posted between 2011 and 2014. It's still not clear if this was intentional. (Hmm, what was Hunter Biden doing during this time?)
There's a clinic in France serving 5000 patients, with only nurses and no doctors. An interesting real-life experiment. In the Pacific NW, all we hear about are nursing shortages, not doctor shortages, and clearly there are both. But a doctor shortage just means you can't grow local healthcare, as long as you maintain your current pool of doctors. You can't function at all without enough nurses. Having a bunch of nurse without a doctor is like a headless ant colony. It can sort of function, but there is no direction, and everything is just on automatic. There is no longitudinal care, unless a dedicated nurses decides to take your case on. But nursing work is shift work. As the physician becomes more of a commodity in today's medicine, either the doctor will need to re-invent the discipline, or be resigned to be content with just being a cog in the healthcare wheel.
Edit: Lines are indeed blurring between nurse and doctor. As nurses are developing skills to do patient care on their own, it's going to take more for physicians to distinguish themselves as being worth their extra pay.
Passwords need to be at least 11 characters minimum now. Computer power has increased. And using upper and lower case numbers and special characters is a must.
Why do have to read this from foreign news sources? The Maui situation is worse than you're being told. These links are worth visiting. So much incompetence you'd think it was deliberate. Maybe it was, who knows?
And Portland commercial real estate is going through a slow-motion fire of its own. Maybe much of the city may soon be owned by entities like BlackRock.
Won't eat his own dog food. Head of Portland's community safety program (Mike Myers) works from a gated community in Henderson, NV. Nuthin' wrong with that, right?
You mean it's not climate change? People are starting a lot of fires in the Pacific NW.
I didn't know that the science journal Nature also published science fiction stories.
But do we really want to know? A.I. could help us talk to animals. Reminds me a but of the Black Mirror episode, Crocodile.
OHSU and Legacy are in talks to merge. Vaccine mandates resulted in loss of doctors and nurses. Mandatory use of ineffective masks. No guns for security guards. Continued support of Democrat politicians. Now Legacy is in dire straits and looks to merge with OHSU.
Well that's a new perspective to vacations. "If you tell them nothing, then you will receive no call, and someone else who is also paid to work will figure it out. You can’t have that happen. The real purpose of this vacation is to prove that you are as important as the sun."
The BMW for James Bond types. i7 protection makes it bulletproof.
Speaking of failing woke policies, Portland AMR ambulance company now can't staff paramedics on all their ambulances. Some will just know BLS. So they'll just do basic CPR until real help arrives. Just like what you might have been doing already. Except they'll have oxygen and an AED. Jessica Vega-Pederson still plans to fine them for subpar performance.
Calculator heaven. Wow, such memories! I did not know that in the heart of Portland there is a museum dedicated to old calculators. As with slide rules, there is something about their visual and tactile appeal. I would visit this place, but it's in a part of Portland that I would avoid.
Washington state Dems appeal to Buttigieg for $200 million to build a bullet train? WTF, for? It'll just get trashed. What is it about Dems always wanting to build expensive mass transit systems, anyway? What do they think we are? Japan? South Korea? Singapore? C'mon, Dems. Don't you know we can't have nice stuff here?
Let's talk about Maui now. Here's Biden, offering Maui fire survivors $700 for their troubles. Hey, Hawaii - you're only 4 electoral votes, and he's already knows you'll vote for him, so don't expect much. At least he might visit you, unlike the town of East Palestine.
Now I'm confused. There are reports that Gov Green is thinking about having the state government buy up Lahaina. But another report says that he's in favor of a moratorium on property sales in Lahaina. He doesn't want developers to buy land at fire-sale prices. But he did blurt out that "the state will take it." No matter, people in Lahaina are already getting calls to close deals before any laws are in place. Speculators are wasting no time in getting a piece of the action. Meanwhile, Maui residents are realizing that they're going to have to organize their own recovery efforts. They can't rely on Biden's FEMA. But at least, they'll have SPAM.
Oh lovely. Washington County doesn't have enough public attorneys so 36 people held in jail without court-appointed attorneys must be released. Nobody wants to liver and work around here, and there are consequences.
Nice review of the ivermectin media bias. This is why I tell people - the clues were all around you. You just had to recognize them. The only treatments recommended against SARS-CoV2 was the unproven, untested vaccine. You had to take it, or you would lose your job, your freedom, and not be able to participate in essential life transactions. And there was no interest in investigating alternate therapies. Even when there was data to show benefit from things like vitamin D supplementation, it was roundly ignored. I asked myself "Are we interested in fighting this virus and finding effective treatment, or just pushing a product?" Clearly it was the latter.
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier...was incident commander for the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that left over 50 dead.One seems to only learn these things by reading conservative media. Gives support to the theory that this was part of a conspiracy. Do with this info as you like.
CRISPR-Cas9 technology can be used against fusion-driven oncogenic cancers. Not sure how many cancers are fusion-driven. Many (like chronic myelogenous leukemia) famously are. But mutations seem to be much more common.
Where did all the geniuses go? Can you name a physics Nobel laureate from the past 30 years. Well, I knew Roger Penrose and Kip Thorne, but no more. Even so, much of the physics that earned Nobel prizes seem to be refinements or new confirmations of previous theory done decades earlier. Yes, Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton are truly geniuses, and you can see this once you study their work. But we do seem to be in a bit of a lull right now.
I think these two articles go together. Why Americans are so mean? America is becoming ungovernable due to rampant crime. The whole integration social experiment has failed, sad to say. We need to have a segregated society. And I'm not talking about racial divisions. We need to be able to legally kick out assholes from the society where everyone else behaves.
UPS drivers make more than your average engineer. Sounds like engineers need to unionize, too.
Oregon rated 13th from bottom in best states to live in WalletHub's best states to live in. As bad as Seattle is, Washington as a whole is still better than Oregon.
China Abandons Clean Energy Goals Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless
This is very much like the decision-making in this post, where "...users noticed the following fact: there is no case where a red pill chooser dies"
China has decided: "Screw it, we're taking the red pill."