Tag: Carbon Cult
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Another stepback
Another example of stepping back to the higher-level question. One of the Things I Learned From Others was this clarifier by Dick Morris in the ’90s. Political messages are NOT aimed at voters. They’re aimed at donors or other politicians. When we see absurd crap floating around the media and ask Do they really think…
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Boxtops all the way down
I stay on the email list of NewSuperstitionist because they occasionally feature an interesting development that I hadn’t heard about through other sources. Their emails in recent years reveal a change in their business model. NS runs frequent cruises to various parts of the world, with big-name “Experts On Board” to narrate and discuss what…
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England still lives.
Kirn also gets in a well-aimed dig at the Gaian fuckheads vandalizing Stonehenge. They are screwing with the wrong pagan gods — their own! How stupid is that? They’ve unleashed the bards and leprechauns on themselves. Looking at the clip of the vandalism, I’m hugely impressed by the instant response of normal people. As soon…
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Gaian grammar
Religion Unplugged, the successor to GetReligion, constantly beats the drum for “climate emergency”. It’s a good reminder that “global warming” was a Christian scam before it was coopted by CIA and turned into a secular religion. One aspect remains constant. Apocalyptic Christians always miss the meaning of prophecy. A prophet is telling us what WILL…
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Not so bad
Maybe AI is a good thing after all. Lever News, a ‘progressive’ site, pulls together some facts about a side of AI we normally don’t consider. The data centers for AI servers are adding a huge load to electric grids, and the electric utilities are keeping coal power running to satisfy the need. = =…
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Trump knows what he’s doing
Headline: Trump says he wants all remaining bitcoin to be mined in USA. Needless to say, the bitcoin suckers, who are also Trump suckers, will love this. Oh boy! That’ll show those horrible Red Chinese Marxist Commies who’s boss! Fact 1: Bitcoin is now a Larry Fink brand. Trump is a politician, therefore everything he…
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Powerful analogy
Compact Mag details the rise of greenlash in this week’s EU parliament election. Germany has taken the craziest green path in the last 10 years, shutting down its clean nuclear plants and also banning Russian gas, resulting in more coal power. Coal is genuinely dirty, but coal automatically becomes pure as angel hair when Gaia…
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Watching the football
VW has pulled back from the EV craze and decided to continue developing gas engines. They’ve moved most of their future development budget back into real car engines. The EV craze was partly motivated by Elon’s cult power and partly by Share Value imperatives. Elon’s prank follows the model of GM’s pranks from the ’50s…
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Pants on the ground
Here’s a perfect contrast to Establishment Rushfield’s hardass economic realism. Compact mag explicitly claims to be populist. Some of their articles fit the promise. This one goes the wrong way. = = = = = START COMPACT: The problem Biden faces is that a long-simmering cost-of-living crisis—reflected most but not exclusively in stifling housing prices—has…
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Pits and spoons
Briggs is trying to bring real human experience back into science. In this piece he analyzes claims of telekinesis and speculates on quantum action. He doesn’t reach any conclusions. I think he may be starting from an unproductive angle. Our thinking on these subjects is narrowed down by our intuitive sense that force is a…
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New thought about nukes
Gene Nelson, a pro-nuke substacker, notes the connection between anti-nuke activism and Big Money donors. Old thought: It always helps to look at the real profits from a movement. Coal and oil production have reached the highest levels in history, and every environmental law “coincidentally” makes coal more attractive and necessary, in the places where…
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What was he thinking?
King Charles commissioned his first official portrait. GAK! The “painter” showed a head floating on a sea of pixelated redness. There’s nothing unusual about an “artist” throwing shit. That’s what “artists” do for a living. Force peasants to eat shit and receive billions from rich assholes. The fact that Charles approved of this monstrosity is…
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Ice cream
Nice warm evening after a long tired (but blessedly NOT very snowy) winter. The ice cream man is driving around, playing his unidentified song that sounds like Lilly Marlene. His tune has been the same for several years, but apparently less than 10. Around 2013 the ice cream man was playing the required Entertainer Rag.…
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Shared Lies of Gaia
The latest Wolf Richter podcast mentioned a VERY important development that cuts against all the standard Shared Lies. Canada has just completed a new crude pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver, opening up a new export channel. Previously Alberta crude only flowed southward through US to Houston and New Orleans for refining and shipping. This IMPORTANT…
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Sounds familiar
Paying attention to Zimbabwe now. One story about Mugabe’s corruption mentioned ‘farm invasions’, which needed more explanation. From Cato’s account, which may be biased: = = = = = START CATO: In the early 2000s, Zimbabwe’s former dictator Robert Mugabe gave the green light to his paramilitary supporters to invade commercial farms, seizing some 23…
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