I watched that video over and over this weekend! And the graphics showing the air pressure wave propagate over Japan and the U.S. were amazing, too, as they were picked up by weather barometers from one end of each country to the other.
Nobody seems to be talking about how much CO2 this thing is emitting.
Quick follow up from yesterday regarding virus data now that all states reporting: most interesting item is that serious cases as a percentage of active cases continues a slow decline now down to 0.093%. I consider Georgia to be a bellweather state as it’s reporting is very up to date and has been consistently very good. Cases there continue their steep downward trend and deaths remain steady at about 12/day compared to 112 at peak delta. I should also note that the lowest death rate in Georgia was just pre-delta at 9/day. So the omicron has only resulted in about a 33% increase in deaths from lowest value.
Zaphod, of course they won’t report on CO2 emission for such an event, it would totally upset the the AGW narrative to compare CO2 emission from a single large volcano to annual human CO2 emission.
Have any of you seen this site https://ground.news/
It shows news stories that the left and right covers. It looks interesting.
physicsguy:
Press releases from the Fed “science” space agencies have already commented that sulphur injected into the atmosphere is much less than the eruption of Mt. Pentatubo (Phillipenes). Mt.Pentatubo had an immediate impact on global temps. for at least two years. Must protect the narrative (like the WuFlu).
Eva Marie: It does appear to be a decent digest. Much obliged.
Wonderful video and graphics.
We better prepare for a year of global cooling. And markedly lower crop yields is no joke if it materializes.
I got hit with multiple government robo-calls warning me about the tsunami. Press 1 to acknowledge receipt of the call. And then they call back anyway. Repeatedly. For a less than 2 ft. swell.
I once tried to tap into the funding for infrasonic acoustic measurement without success. Cool stuff. But my recollection is that they were usually detecting down to maybe 0.05 Hz. Neo’s video is talking about barometer measurements that span a half hour or more. Curious.
The images are spectacular and horrid at the same time. It is a reminder to me, and I wish it was for others, just how insignificant humans are to this planet. It would take decades for humans to terraform our planet to the degree that this one volcano achieved in mere moments.
Re Tong eruption, estimates of the mass displaced to the atmosphere take time and accuracy takes effort to review data sets. And thus are not expected for weeks more.
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is the number we want. But bold early looks suggest one-tenth (VEI 4) of Mt Pinotubo (VEI 5).
Land based explosive eruptions displace more earth and result in more SO2 release. But the Tonga eruption was mostly subterranean, and therefore much became dispersed by and absorbed into ocean water.
If accurate, this equates to only one-trenth of a degree C lower temperature, in contrast to the -0.5C degrees (or more) that the Mt Pinotubo eruption achieved.
What’s really interesting is that the climate models assumed MORE natural temperature reducing effects from more similar volcanic outgasing over the past 30 years. A lot more. And thus the models are in greater error than what we’ve measured because if this natural effect was greater, observed warming would be lower.
TJ:
That is why yesterday’s press release from a Fed agency (NOAA or NASA?) regarding the ammount of sulfur injected into the atmosphere (24 miles) seemed to me to be BS. Too soon to really know.
Wake me when it is relocated under Washington DC during the state of the union address (assuming we get one this year.)
Will the Dems replace Kamala with Hillary, and what will they come up with for Kamala?
Maybe a health problem. They are pressured to do something before November.
Jordon Peterson has resigned from his tenured university position and, to explain why, has just released an incredibly powerful, thorough, well-argued, impassioned, and angry denunciation of the Left’s extremely destructive campaign of intimidation to force everyone–in Academia, in the Arts, in the Business world and everywhere else–to bend the knee to their diversity and inclusion agenda at https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/s7vqib/die_must_die/
I have never seen him so enraged.
This is the most honest and through, yet compact analysis and denunciation of this totalitarian intellectual plague that I have seen.
It is very important for as many people as possible to view this, especially since the “powers that be” might make it “disappear” at any moment.
Snow on Pine: Jordan Peterson doing a little volcanic erupting of his own. Amazing what we’ve done to ourselves.
“The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is the number we want. But bold early looks suggest one-tenth (VEI 4) of Mt Pinotubo (VEI 5).”
I’m waiting for the usual suspects to trace global warming back to first-century CO2 emissions, including the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64.
Peterson at his best. I’ve lived under the academia hell he portrays. As a result, and from teaching students who were admitted only on the basis of their BIPOC status, I now have to admit some “racism” of my own.
Moving to a new state means finding new health providers. I carefully review all potential dentists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, and most importantly, candidates for my PCP. I’m sorry to say any of those who are BIPOC and who have graduated within the past 5 years from their medical school I will not consider at all. 10 years ago I taught those same students as pre-med undergraduates, and I know 95% of them cannot do the work because they were admitted to college solely on the basis of their BIPOC status, not on their academic potential. As a result they are simply passed on in undergraduate school, and as Peterson indicates probably the same thing happened in med school. To fail such a person is a “racist” act which would get any faculty member hauled up to the Dean or President and grounds for firing would be initiated.
The DIE ideology instead of erasing racism, is going to have the reverse effect of increasing racism….but maybe that’s the point.
“When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” Robert Anson Heinlein
Snow on Pine,
I watch his video a couple of days ago and thought it was very good!
Now, I am half way around the world, but I think it has disappeared, which is really a shame.
Snow on Pine on January 19, 2022 at 1:56 pm said:
Jordon Peterson has resigned from his tenured university position and, to explain why, has just released an incredibly powerful, thorough, well-argued, impassioned, and angry denunciation of the Left’s extremely destructive campaign of intimidation to force everyone–in Academia, in the Arts, in the Business world and everywhere else–to bend the knee to their diversity and inclusion agenda at https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/s7vqib/die_must_die/“
“Video Unavailable” … tried YouTube link, “Video is private”
Will do some additional searching
I’ve commented here recently that I think all sorts of developments and events are converging, and that we are heading for some great, watershed event, perhaps the often prophesied “Singularity.”
In the past I have also commented specifically on the fact that the onrushing appearance of robots and AI in more and more workplaces is going to make obsolete millions of unskilled jobs and the workers who held them. Losses of jobs so great that they may well make the tremendous economic and social disruptions (and violence) ushered in by the Industrial Revolution seem minor by comparison.
Today I cited Jordan Peterson’s heated denunciation of the Left’s totalitarian imposition of their “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality” ideology on people as forcing us down a very dark road.
I have also been commenting on the issue of UFOs, and UFO researcher Richard Dolan makes a link between the dystopia that will be a Globalist revolution and UFOs on the video linked below.
Coincidentally, today I also happened upon more comprehensive view of the Globalist dystopia we are being pushed toward as outlined by Richard Dolan, who has made a thoughtful study of the UFO issue for a couple of decades.
I have to admit that the pieces of the puzzle he puts together make a kind of horrible sense.
I clicked Peterson’s resignation from a different search today and mistakenly thought it was old news. Nonetheless, it was incandescent. Loved this blast:
__________________________________
All my craven colleagues must craft DIE statements to obtain a research grant. They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same. And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise.
__________________________________
Craven is right. Granted, my career is not on the line, but in my time I have resisted, paid my dues and been attacked and ostracized.
I thought university professors understood they stood for something. A mistake I won’t make again, aside from courageous exceptions like Jordan Peterson.
Tucker Carlson fails his Dostoyevsky Exam and recommends a Grand Inquisitor for every household.
Where there’s cowardice and ‘Tolerance’ there’s not.
Well, I got registration for this semester sorted. It’s always the worst part getting my courses past my “advisor,” who among other things insists I take Calculus I, even though I’ve passed Calc 3 and gets annoyed if I don’t abide by all the instructions in BRIGHT FLORESCENT CAPITALS that are part of her email signature, which I tend to ignore as noise.
I would try to get another advisor but the other one quit and now mine is the only one for the entire CS Dept. So it’s impossible to get an appointment with her without weeks of advance notice. Zoom consultation of course.
The “advisement” world has gone crazy with Covid. You can’t walk in and talk to anyone beyond knocking at the reception door. The receptionist holds the door partway open, squints at you, and allows you to beg briefly for a few hints on how to get something done.
Furthermore, I’m instructed by my CCP Paymasters to pass along a reassurance to a Mister Richard Gere that thus far no Aktions are planned against any Gerbils.
Re: Tucker link…
Zaphod:
A commenter to “Bayou Renaissance Man” mentioned the Tucker link from Fox was denied on “Chrome, Yandex, Edge, Firefox, and Opera.”
Sonofagun. The Brave browser did the trick, but this is getting creepy.
The prog overreach is clear and the Dems will be clobbered in November. They are desperate and the main danger IMO is what they will do out of desperation.
I would kick in some $$ to Manchin’s and Sinema’s security funds, if there were a place to send it.
@Huxley:
The censorship is pervasive.
As you know, I follow some YouTube commentators who are rather more ‘Crunchy’ than Tucker. They’ve mostly had to relocate to Odysee or Gab TV or otherwise speak in code. Was listening to one of the Academic Agent’s panel discussions yesterday and a participant was talking about vaccination mandates — he used ‘penetration’ and some circumlocution for ‘mandate’… Any direct reference and you get a channel strike. This has to be done for every contentious issue: Race, Feminism, Climate Science, Usual Suspects (sorry Usual Suspects!), Covid, CRT, Transgenderism, etc.
@huxley:
To be more precise, the Censorship and Gatekeeping are pervasive. When one sees someone still around with a large following on a popular platform and not cancelled yet being ‘Edgy Right Wing’… one needs to stop and think ‘Why is this one still here? Which issues does he shut down? Which issues doesn’t he talk about ever?’
“I would kick in some $$ to Manchin’s and Sinema’s security funds, if there were a place to send it.”
If you do so, suggest you avoid anything involves payment processors. Plenty of folks to the right of the Overton Window have had their PayPal, Credit Cards, and even regular banking facilities cancelled because they sent money to support a person or organisation disapproved of by these private entities. Zero overt government involvement.
Remember your Social Credit Score, Citizen!
@ Zaphod in re Carlson video at BRM – the commenter there named Aesop is not me.
Just in case the CIA is monitoring.
Commenter Eric passes on this tip: “Fox News doesn’t seem to like links from Blogspot, or something. I’ve seen this before.
I just hit ENTER on the URL bar, and the page loaded – so it’s a valid URL, and I have access to it, but the server is blocking some or all outside referrers. Copying the URL and pasting it into the browser should also work.”
I haven’t tried it; I did get an access denied notice and haven’t bothered because the excerpt at BRM was sufficient.
On the Jordan Peterson video: I listened to it on the Reddit thread, as well as reading along in the Canadian National Post, which published the article that Peterson is reading.
Stuart Reges, who is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. UW encourages faculty there to include a land acknowledgement statement on their course syllibi, and Prof. Reges decided to do so, though with a twist: he decided to ground his “land acknowledgement” statement in Marxist economics with the following version:
“I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”
To be sure, the labor theory of value originates with Locke, but Marx’s application of Locke’s idea held that the value of the land over time should justly accrue to the people who added value to it, and that for the owners of the land to claim that value was to expropriate that value unjustly from the laborers who improved the place—in this case the builders and faculty of the University of Washington over a century.
Well as the internet click-bait cliche goes, you’ll never guess what happened next! Actually of course you do: a campus uproar over Prof. Reges’s “offensive” and “hurtful” statement, which somehow makes his classroom less “inclusive.” The director of the school of UW’s computer science ordered Reges to remove the statement from his course syllabus, because “it is offensive and creates a toxic environment in your course.” Reges refused, whereupon the director of the school removed it online without Prof. Reges’s permission, violating the first principle of academic freedom in the classroom. Further, the university is now saying that professors who include a land acknowledgement statement must use a university-approved version. In other words, at UW the land acknowledgement has become yet another coerced Maoist confession of collective guilt.
“I decided to see whether it was acceptable to present an alternate viewpoint,” said Reges. “Obviously their version of diversity does not include conservative viewpoints.” Of course not. “Diversity” on campus now means that while people look different, they must think the same thing.
UPDATE: This is not Prof. Reges’s first brush with the UW campus Stasi.
It all started in June 2018, when Quillette published my article, “Why Women Don’t Code,” and things picked up steam when Jordan Peterson shared a link to the article on his Twitter account. A burst of outrage and press coverage followed which I discussed in a follow-up piece. The original article was one of the ten most read pieces published by Quillette in 2018, and continues to generate interest.
Ever since Google fired James Damore for “advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace,” those of us working in tech have been trying to figure out what we can and cannot say on the subject of diversity. You might imagine that a university would be more open to discussing his ideas, but my experience suggests otherwise.
Neo & Co. discussed the Damore Affair thoroughly at the time, IIRC, but Prof. Reges gives some professional insight into the background and substance of the arguments.
Lots of ponderables in it that apply to the current political situation.
This, then, is a Macbeth for our contemporary moment, where it may indeed feel as though we have little personal autonomy over forces that work both beneath and above us. Entities we can do little to control, or even clearly identify—the bureaucratic rulings of government fiat, the priestly divinations of Silicon Valley’s latest algorithms, the therapeutic and professional experts who direct our social policies—these are the forces that move around us, often in inscrutable ways. Of course, in a liberal society, these forces are intended to work for our good, not, as in Coen’s Macbeth, toward our ill. The liberal belief is that humans are good. It is a flawed society which makes them turn toward evil. Let us fix the society, with our expert wisdom, and we will extinguish human wrongdoing. Conveniently, it isn’t really a moral agent who does good or ill, but the record of malicious social forces that work upon an individual’s unconscious or social standing that is at fault.
If you are a film fan or Shakespeare aficionado, or happily both, RTWT.
Yes to physicsguy. Just say no to all doctors graduated from med school beginning 2019 and after.
Obama’s minions radically “reformed” the MCAT admitting screen to load for SWJs.
Yeah, you read that right. Doctors are admitted for their social justice commitedness.
This entire new cohort must be rejected. Not just BIPOCs, though, as physicsguy does. But entire new and young classes who’ve graduated from med school.
Or else you’re taking on as your physician an SWJ. (Unless you personally know him or her to be otherwise.)
TJ: SJW’s, perhaps ??
So much new language! Hard to keep up.
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I watched that video over and over this weekend! And the graphics showing the air pressure wave propagate over Japan and the U.S. were amazing, too, as they were picked up by weather barometers from one end of each country to the other.
Nobody seems to be talking about how much CO2 this thing is emitting.
Quick follow up from yesterday regarding virus data now that all states reporting: most interesting item is that serious cases as a percentage of active cases continues a slow decline now down to 0.093%. I consider Georgia to be a bellweather state as it’s reporting is very up to date and has been consistently very good. Cases there continue their steep downward trend and deaths remain steady at about 12/day compared to 112 at peak delta. I should also note that the lowest death rate in Georgia was just pre-delta at 9/day. So the omicron has only resulted in about a 33% increase in deaths from lowest value.
Zaphod, of course they won’t report on CO2 emission for such an event, it would totally upset the the AGW narrative to compare CO2 emission from a single large volcano to annual human CO2 emission.
Have any of you seen this site https://ground.news/
It shows news stories that the left and right covers. It looks interesting.
physicsguy:
Press releases from the Fed “science” space agencies have already commented that sulphur injected into the atmosphere is much less than the eruption of Mt. Pentatubo (Phillipenes). Mt.Pentatubo had an immediate impact on global temps. for at least two years. Must protect the narrative (like the WuFlu).
Eva Marie: It does appear to be a decent digest. Much obliged.
Wonderful video and graphics.
We better prepare for a year of global cooling. And markedly lower crop yields is no joke if it materializes.
I got hit with multiple government robo-calls warning me about the tsunami. Press 1 to acknowledge receipt of the call. And then they call back anyway. Repeatedly. For a less than 2 ft. swell.
I once tried to tap into the funding for infrasonic acoustic measurement without success. Cool stuff. But my recollection is that they were usually detecting down to maybe 0.05 Hz. Neo’s video is talking about barometer measurements that span a half hour or more. Curious.
The images are spectacular and horrid at the same time. It is a reminder to me, and I wish it was for others, just how insignificant humans are to this planet. It would take decades for humans to terraform our planet to the degree that this one volcano achieved in mere moments.
Re Tong eruption, estimates of the mass displaced to the atmosphere take time and accuracy takes effort to review data sets. And thus are not expected for weeks more.
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is the number we want. But bold early looks suggest one-tenth (VEI 4) of Mt Pinotubo (VEI 5).
Land based explosive eruptions displace more earth and result in more SO2 release. But the Tonga eruption was mostly subterranean, and therefore much became dispersed by and absorbed into ocean water.
If accurate, this equates to only one-trenth of a degree C lower temperature, in contrast to the -0.5C degrees (or more) that the Mt Pinotubo eruption achieved.
What’s really interesting is that the climate models assumed MORE natural temperature reducing effects from more similar volcanic outgasing over the past 30 years. A lot more. And thus the models are in greater error than what we’ve measured because if this natural effect was greater, observed warming would be lower.
TJ:
That is why yesterday’s press release from a Fed agency (NOAA or NASA?) regarding the ammount of sulfur injected into the atmosphere (24 miles) seemed to me to be BS. Too soon to really know.
Wake me when it is relocated under Washington DC during the state of the union address (assuming we get one this year.)
Will the Dems replace Kamala with Hillary, and what will they come up with for Kamala?
Maybe a health problem. They are pressured to do something before November.
Jordon Peterson has resigned from his tenured university position and, to explain why, has just released an incredibly powerful, thorough, well-argued, impassioned, and angry denunciation of the Left’s extremely destructive campaign of intimidation to force everyone–in Academia, in the Arts, in the Business world and everywhere else–to bend the knee to their diversity and inclusion agenda at https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/s7vqib/die_must_die/
I have never seen him so enraged.
This is the most honest and through, yet compact analysis and denunciation of this totalitarian intellectual plague that I have seen.
It is very important for as many people as possible to view this, especially since the “powers that be” might make it “disappear” at any moment.
Snow on Pine: Jordan Peterson doing a little volcanic erupting of his own. Amazing what we’ve done to ourselves.
“The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is the number we want. But bold early looks suggest one-tenth (VEI 4) of Mt Pinotubo (VEI 5).”
FWIW, the VEI of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius is estimated to be 5:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD
I’m waiting for the usual suspects to trace global warming back to first-century CO2 emissions, including the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64.
Peterson at his best. I’ve lived under the academia hell he portrays. As a result, and from teaching students who were admitted only on the basis of their BIPOC status, I now have to admit some “racism” of my own.
Moving to a new state means finding new health providers. I carefully review all potential dentists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, and most importantly, candidates for my PCP. I’m sorry to say any of those who are BIPOC and who have graduated within the past 5 years from their medical school I will not consider at all. 10 years ago I taught those same students as pre-med undergraduates, and I know 95% of them cannot do the work because they were admitted to college solely on the basis of their BIPOC status, not on their academic potential. As a result they are simply passed on in undergraduate school, and as Peterson indicates probably the same thing happened in med school. To fail such a person is a “racist” act which would get any faculty member hauled up to the Dean or President and grounds for firing would be initiated.
The DIE ideology instead of erasing racism, is going to have the reverse effect of increasing racism….but maybe that’s the point.
Your Ruling Class:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/18/schumers-daughters-work-for-amazon-facebook-as-he-holds-power-over-antitrust-bill/
Peterson’s video has already been censored.
“When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” Robert Anson Heinlein
Snow on Pine,
I watch his video a couple of days ago and thought it was very good!
Now, I am half way around the world, but I think it has disappeared, which is really a shame.
Snow on Pine on January 19, 2022 at 1:56 pm said:
“Video Unavailable” … tried YouTube link, “Video is private”
Will do some additional searching
I’ve commented here recently that I think all sorts of developments and events are converging, and that we are heading for some great, watershed event, perhaps the often prophesied “Singularity.”
In the past I have also commented specifically on the fact that the onrushing appearance of robots and AI in more and more workplaces is going to make obsolete millions of unskilled jobs and the workers who held them. Losses of jobs so great that they may well make the tremendous economic and social disruptions (and violence) ushered in by the Industrial Revolution seem minor by comparison.
Today I cited Jordan Peterson’s heated denunciation of the Left’s totalitarian imposition of their “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality” ideology on people as forcing us down a very dark road.
I have also been commenting on the issue of UFOs, and UFO researcher Richard Dolan makes a link between the dystopia that will be a Globalist revolution and UFOs on the video linked below.
Coincidentally, today I also happened upon more comprehensive view of the Globalist dystopia we are being pushed toward as outlined by Richard Dolan, who has made a thoughtful study of the UFO issue for a couple of decades.
I have to admit that the pieces of the puzzle he puts together make a kind of horrible sense.
See what he has to say at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgzRC5freIo
RedState reports that a CBS Morning host claimed these volcanic eruptions are more frequent because of global warming:
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/01/19/watch-cbs-host-blames-weekend-undersea-volcanic-eruption-on-climate-change-n509013
DNW–Just tried the link to Peterson’s video on reddit I included in my original comment, and it worked.
physicsguy @ 3:48pm,
That is astounding! Thank you for sharing your personal experience in the matter.
@SnowOnPine:
You might find this of interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fear
I clicked Peterson’s resignation from a different search today and mistakenly thought it was old news. Nonetheless, it was incandescent. Loved this blast:
__________________________________
All my craven colleagues must craft DIE statements to obtain a research grant. They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same. And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise.
__________________________________
Craven is right. Granted, my career is not on the line, but in my time I have resisted, paid my dues and been attacked and ostracized.
I thought university professors understood they stood for something. A mistake I won’t make again, aside from courageous exceptions like Jordan Peterson.
Tucker Carlson fails his Dostoyevsky Exam and recommends a Grand Inquisitor for every household.
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-homeless-crisis-is-symptom-of-our.html
Where there’s a Will, there’s a way.
Where there’s cowardice and ‘Tolerance’ there’s not.
Well, I got registration for this semester sorted. It’s always the worst part getting my courses past my “advisor,” who among other things insists I take Calculus I, even though I’ve passed Calc 3 and gets annoyed if I don’t abide by all the instructions in BRIGHT FLORESCENT CAPITALS that are part of her email signature, which I tend to ignore as noise.
I would try to get another advisor but the other one quit and now mine is the only one for the entire CS Dept. So it’s impossible to get an appointment with her without weeks of advance notice. Zoom consultation of course.
The “advisement” world has gone crazy with Covid. You can’t walk in and talk to anyone beyond knocking at the reception door. The receptionist holds the door partway open, squints at you, and allows you to beg briefly for a few hints on how to get something done.
Delenda est!
More on the Hong Kong Hamster Holocaust:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3164000/hong-kong-hamster-cull-top-covid-19-expert
Furthermore, I’m instructed by my CCP Paymasters to pass along a reassurance to a Mister Richard Gere that thus far no Aktions are planned against any Gerbils.
Re: Tucker link…
Zaphod:
A commenter to “Bayou Renaissance Man” mentioned the Tucker link from Fox was denied on “Chrome, Yandex, Edge, Firefox, and Opera.”
Sonofagun. The Brave browser did the trick, but this is getting creepy.
The prog overreach is clear and the Dems will be clobbered in November. They are desperate and the main danger IMO is what they will do out of desperation.
I would kick in some $$ to Manchin’s and Sinema’s security funds, if there were a place to send it.
@Huxley:
The censorship is pervasive.
As you know, I follow some YouTube commentators who are rather more ‘Crunchy’ than Tucker. They’ve mostly had to relocate to Odysee or Gab TV or otherwise speak in code. Was listening to one of the Academic Agent’s panel discussions yesterday and a participant was talking about vaccination mandates — he used ‘penetration’ and some circumlocution for ‘mandate’… Any direct reference and you get a channel strike. This has to be done for every contentious issue: Race, Feminism, Climate Science, Usual Suspects (sorry Usual Suspects!), Covid, CRT, Transgenderism, etc.
@huxley:
To be more precise, the Censorship and Gatekeeping are pervasive. When one sees someone still around with a large following on a popular platform and not cancelled yet being ‘Edgy Right Wing’… one needs to stop and think ‘Why is this one still here? Which issues does he shut down? Which issues doesn’t he talk about ever?’
“I would kick in some $$ to Manchin’s and Sinema’s security funds, if there were a place to send it.”
If you do so, suggest you avoid anything involves payment processors. Plenty of folks to the right of the Overton Window have had their PayPal, Credit Cards, and even regular banking facilities cancelled because they sent money to support a person or organisation disapproved of by these private entities. Zero overt government involvement.
Remember your Social Credit Score, Citizen!
@ Zaphod in re Carlson video at BRM – the commenter there named Aesop is not me.
Just in case the CIA is monitoring.
Commenter Eric passes on this tip: “Fox News doesn’t seem to like links from Blogspot, or something. I’ve seen this before.
I just hit ENTER on the URL bar, and the page loaded – so it’s a valid URL, and I have access to it, but the server is blocking some or all outside referrers. Copying the URL and pasting it into the browser should also work.”
I haven’t tried it; I did get an access denied notice and haven’t bothered because the excerpt at BRM was sufficient.
On the Jordan Peterson video: I listened to it on the Reddit thread, as well as reading along in the Canadian National Post, which published the article that Peterson is reading.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto
A companion piece to the Jordan Peterson post, via Powerline today.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/hero-of-the-week.php
The link in the UPDATE references another post that Reges got flak for.
Both are worth reading.
https://quillette.com/2020/01/11/demoted-and-placed-on-probation/
https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/
Neo & Co. discussed the Damore Affair thoroughly at the time, IIRC, but Prof. Reges gives some professional insight into the background and substance of the arguments.
While I was over at Quillette, I took the time to read this movie review.
https://quillette.com/2022/01/19/fatal-vision-a-review-of-joel-coens-macbeth/
Lots of ponderables in it that apply to the current political situation.
If you are a film fan or Shakespeare aficionado, or happily both, RTWT.
Yes to physicsguy. Just say no to all doctors graduated from med school beginning 2019 and after.
Obama’s minions radically “reformed” the MCAT admitting screen to load for SWJs.
Yeah, you read that right. Doctors are admitted for their social justice commitedness.
This entire new cohort must be rejected. Not just BIPOCs, though, as physicsguy does. But entire new and young classes who’ve graduated from med school.
Or else you’re taking on as your physician an SWJ. (Unless you personally know him or her to be otherwise.)
TJ: SJW’s, perhaps ??
So much new language! Hard to keep up.