Comments on: Open thread 3/17/22

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:45:43 +0000

https://activegroup.com.ua/2022/03/16/survey-says-86-6-of-russians-support-the-armed-invasion-of-russia-in-other-european-countries/

The headline on this is misleading. The sampling frame may be damaged and the questions seem tendentious. Still, some disconcerting results.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:31:00 +0000

Here’s today’s ISW assessment; for some reason Powerline didn’t Pick it, although they have been doing so almost daily.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-17

By: OBloody Hell

OBloody Hell — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:22:58 +0000

Aw, come on… If you’re gonna learn a Bach piece, you shoulda learned the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, his most famous piece…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnuq9PXbywA

😀

^^^^ — Yes, is joke, not a piano piece. Hence RBG ;-P

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:01:14 +0000

Here is a rare, almost nonexistent, event. A productive climate change related debate — in this case, concerning energy policy

“Alex Epstein Vs. Andrew Dessler: Should America Rapidly Eliminate Fossil Fuel Use to Prevent Climate Catastrophe.”

The first is the author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. The second is professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/14/epstein-vs-dessler-should-america-rapidly-eliminate-fossil-fuel-use-to-prevent-climate-catastrophe/

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:45:01 +0000

When I was a surfer kid in high school and lived a block from the beach, we would do our best in the spring to sneak in some waves before rushing off to school. By the end of the school year we could get in a good session.

Then Daylight Savings Time happened.

Just as dawn came early enough so we could catch a decent number of waves, DST plunged the morning waves back into darkness. We were back to riding the glassy waves of morning only on the weekends.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:30:57 +0000

…in olden times it was common for people to wake in the middle of the night, stay awake for several hours and then go back to sleep again for the rest of the night.

Nonapod, Rufus:

That’s my understanding. My experience too. I usually awaken at 3 or 4am, stay up for an hour or so, then fall back asleep. (Sometimes I comment then, in case anyone wonders at my timestamps.)

I’ve had depression-related insomnia and that is an entirely different and unpleasant beast.

Back in the 70s Jane Roberts channeled an entity who called himself “Seth.” Really some of the best channeled material I’ve encountered. There are about a dozen books of Seth material out there.

Anyway, according to Seth two-cycle sleep was the norm for humanity until modern times. This was before I had run into the idea blessed by sleep researchers.

Whatever channeling is about, Roberts was the real deal. At the least it is a remarkable variety of human creativity. Worth checking out her books, if one has any inclination in that direction.

Like many channels Roberts died comparatively young at 55. The last few Seth books were sad. I felt I had lost two friends, even if the message of the books was that no one truly dies.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:40:13 +0000

For those without access to the WSJ’s Ukraine war reports, this site has been linked at the Power Line blog, and its daily summaries seem consistent with WSJ reporting on the war.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-16

By: JimNorCal

JimNorCal — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:46:16 +0000

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/food_shortages_soon_come__what_to_do.html
Farmers are being hit hard by shortages and skyrocketing inflation, just like the rest of us. Anhydrous ammonia, used to fertilize most grain and many row crops, has had a massive jump in price from $487 per ton in 2020, to $746 in 2021, to a record-breaking $1,492 per ton the first week of February this year.
…
Opportunities currently exist for farmland to be put into paid conservation easements or fallowed into carbon credits. These require no inputs other than an occasional mowing but produce a guaranteed payment. Some farmers have taken advantage of these already.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:27:39 +0000

I just came across this. Now, I know it is the Gateway Pundit, but IF true just how close are we to a Dictatorship of a Single Party.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/mayorkas-releases-new-rules-extremism-dhs-will-target-anyone-believes-election-stolen-challenged-faucis-everchanging-covid-rules/

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:12:39 +0000

Robert Shotzberger,

Apparently, Indiana ended their county by county discrepancies in 2006. Here’s an interesting article explaining the controversy and also giving statistics showing that DST results in higher utility bills and more pollution.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/indiana-time.html

If those last two stats are valid, Indiana could fix that by just shifting people’s work hours in summer months.