I renewed as at the founder level too so I wouldn’t feel guilty about not tipping as often as I feel like I should. Especially when you compare the enjoyment I get out of reading these columns and the comments to the price of a newspaper subscription.
When a 90-year-old man says there are too many people on the planet, you’re allowed to ask why he’s still sticking around. 🤣🤣 Best line of 2023, so far.
I'm actually shocked Dr. Ehrlich is still drawing breath in 2022. Huh. Who knew?
I've said it so many times, but it needs to be said again because no one is listening to a damn bike riding duck; There is no "Climate Crisis." There is, however, a political crisis masquerading as a climate crisis. Yes, the earth is warming up. But that will happen when you realize that we are still coming out of the most recent ice age. That Ice Age ended about 7-10,000 years ago. You know, when the pyramids were being built. In a geological span of 4.5B years (the age of the earth) 10,000 years is literally a rounding error. I did the math, the time since the last Ice Age is .000000022 of the life of our planet. See? A rounding error at best.
If you were to shrink the entire lifespan of the earth down to a single calendar year, the "climate crisis" is basically a warmer than expected evening on December 31st.
Not only that, but the majority of any warming that happens will be in the temperate zones, which means more areas on which to grow crops and thus feed more people. Can't have folks knowing that, right?
I grew up in rich farming country (river bottoms) and through the 1970s or so we were deep plowing (16" or so), farming "fence row to fence row) and using both fertilizer and pesticides very liberally.
Today, on the same farms, soil is chisel-plowed, leaving 'untamed' fence (cover for animals and birds) and other less productive areas gone back to wild (including some deliberately planted prairie grasses and such), ridge-till planting in the 'trash (instead of burying it with a deep plow), and using way less overall, but more carefully applied fertilizer and pesticides. GMO crops are more pest resistant, and Roundup herbicide (despite what lawyers claim) is NOT a poison (it's rapid-growth plant cell disrupter) disappears into constituent chemicals in three days or so.
If we actually NEED to crank up more production we could go back to farming the 20% or so acreage that has been let fall fallow, and it would be way more productive than it was 50 years ago.
I'm still here, and I hope to be here for many years to come.
There is also the example of the lunatic Professor of Social Work at SUNY Stony Brook who called cops murders after they shot and killed the guy who lunged at them with a knife, seriously wounding two of them, one stabbed in the neck, and giving the third a 'minor' wound. They should have de-escalated the situation. The Social Work 'discipline' should be burnt to the ground and the earth salted.
Nah. The Professor should put his ass on the line & become a police officer. I'm sure that once he's had someone lunge at him with a knife, he'll STFU.
Which reminds me that I saw a YT video some time ago where they took a bunch of Defund The Police types and ran them through the standard police mock shooting training; every last one of them shot the simulated assailant in a heartbeat.
Amusingly enough, only about a third of them changed their mind.
This example reminds me of a quote I read, can't remember where or who it was: "You can not reason with someone who came to their views by way of emotion."
The Defund Types in the YT video, if they are like most suburban liberal statists, came to the Defund position out of emotion, primarily the death of St George Floyd. No amount of reasoning, be it practical or otherwise, will move them off their position.
Well, some dimwit accused the NFL of "racism" even though it stopped the game last night after the Bills' player's collapse. I'm with you. Most "Social Science" isn't.
I've got to renew my subscription, but the Bidenflation made this year particularly light. The kids came first, then the wife. At some point in the near future dad will get his online subscription money
One of my earliest memories is New Year's Day when I was 3 or 4 years old. I stumbled blearily into the kitchen for breakfast, still wearing my onesie, and Mom brightly said, "Happy New Year!" I immediately jolted awake, ran to the living room and looked out the front windows at the snow-covered street ... only to be severely disappointed. "Mom!" I cried. "Everything's still the same! Where's all the new stuff?" She then tried to explain the concept of Time to me.
Despite that recurring disappointment, I do still like the idea of putting last year in a box, and opening a new book with 12 clean, white pages on which I can write anything I want.
Weird. I guess my memory is short (always). I thought originally was a 5 and 50, and the 75 was a recent addition? Regardless, you write good stuff. I encourage my friends to join ya. Now I need more friends :)
Are his defense attorneys insinuating that gender dysphoria makes people homicidal maniacs?
"The petition also includes reports citing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a condition that causes anguish and other symptoms as a result of a disparity between a person’s gender identity and their assigned sex at birth."
Ah, yes. They fail to see that if this is so, the prescription is to lock up all of the potentially homicidal gender dysphorics until society has changed enough to make it safe for them to roam free again.
Back when George Will used to be a principled conservative he penned an article early on that highlighted how colleges were amongst the first to extol the glamorization of being a victim. It's drifted into everything, even death row dudes. In just 8 short years.
Ya know, I can understand why someone on death row cries, "I'm a victim!"
I don't get why so many people outside of prison take up the cry, "He's a victim!" on his behalf - and completely ignore the actual victims that the inmate murdered and bereaved
Well! Greetings to All! And especially our host! Welcome back Jim!
Paul Ehrlich should be famous for losing his bet with Julian Simon. The original bet was on the price of 5 metals: Chromium, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten. Ehrlich lost. He thought prices would go up due to scarcity. The prices went down due to human ingenuity and better extraction (per Simon's side). That said: Great line: "You're allowed to ask why he's still sticking around". Like eating bugs, their pronouncements about too many people don't apply to them.
As for Extinction Rebellion, I'm OK with lunatics who stop destroying Art.
Soleimani's death was a high point for Trump's Administration and Trump personally.
"You wouldn't execute a woman, would you?" "We're not."
Congratulations on the nuptials NFT!
I renewed as at the founder level too so I wouldn’t feel guilty about not tipping as often as I feel like I should. Especially when you compare the enjoyment I get out of reading these columns and the comments to the price of a newspaper subscription.
Not many things better than a good marriage.
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Like all Marxists, the people who espouse such ideologies always expect that they'll be the one holding the whip.
Extinction Rebellion should throw soup on Paul Ehrlich. Win-win.
Now THAT'S the very definition of 'killing 2 birds with one stone'.
Well done.
Nah. They should all be glued together with really strong glue.
When a 90-year-old man says there are too many people on the planet, you’re allowed to ask why he’s still sticking around. 🤣🤣 Best line of 2023, so far.
So, Paulie - what's the price of tin these days?
I'm actually shocked Dr. Ehrlich is still drawing breath in 2022. Huh. Who knew?
I've said it so many times, but it needs to be said again because no one is listening to a damn bike riding duck; There is no "Climate Crisis." There is, however, a political crisis masquerading as a climate crisis. Yes, the earth is warming up. But that will happen when you realize that we are still coming out of the most recent ice age. That Ice Age ended about 7-10,000 years ago. You know, when the pyramids were being built. In a geological span of 4.5B years (the age of the earth) 10,000 years is literally a rounding error. I did the math, the time since the last Ice Age is .000000022 of the life of our planet. See? A rounding error at best.
If you were to shrink the entire lifespan of the earth down to a single calendar year, the "climate crisis" is basically a warmer than expected evening on December 31st.
"We're far more likely to blow ourselves up than live long enough to die of "climate change.""
We are slouching toward Fermi's Great Filter in the sky...
That "small minority" includes John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom. They will not be inconvenienced.
Not only that, but the majority of any warming that happens will be in the temperate zones, which means more areas on which to grow crops and thus feed more people. Can't have folks knowing that, right?
I grew up in rich farming country (river bottoms) and through the 1970s or so we were deep plowing (16" or so), farming "fence row to fence row) and using both fertilizer and pesticides very liberally.
Today, on the same farms, soil is chisel-plowed, leaving 'untamed' fence (cover for animals and birds) and other less productive areas gone back to wild (including some deliberately planted prairie grasses and such), ridge-till planting in the 'trash (instead of burying it with a deep plow), and using way less overall, but more carefully applied fertilizer and pesticides. GMO crops are more pest resistant, and Roundup herbicide (despite what lawyers claim) is NOT a poison (it's rapid-growth plant cell disrupter) disappears into constituent chemicals in three days or so.
If we actually NEED to crank up more production we could go back to farming the 20% or so acreage that has been let fall fallow, and it would be way more productive than it was 50 years ago.
THAT was informative! Thank you.
I'm still here, and I hope to be here for many years to come.
There is also the example of the lunatic Professor of Social Work at SUNY Stony Brook who called cops murders after they shot and killed the guy who lunged at them with a knife, seriously wounding two of them, one stabbed in the neck, and giving the third a 'minor' wound. They should have de-escalated the situation. The Social Work 'discipline' should be burnt to the ground and the earth salted.
https://ussanews.com/2023/01/03/ny-professor-pounded-for-accusing-cops-of-being-murderers-after-shooting-man-on-vicious-stabbing-spree-in-self-defense/
Nah. The Professor should put his ass on the line & become a police officer. I'm sure that once he's had someone lunge at him with a knife, he'll STFU.
Which reminds me that I saw a YT video some time ago where they took a bunch of Defund The Police types and ran them through the standard police mock shooting training; every last one of them shot the simulated assailant in a heartbeat.
Amusingly enough, only about a third of them changed their mind.
This example reminds me of a quote I read, can't remember where or who it was: "You can not reason with someone who came to their views by way of emotion."
The Defund Types in the YT video, if they are like most suburban liberal statists, came to the Defund position out of emotion, primarily the death of St George Floyd. No amount of reasoning, be it practical or otherwise, will move them off their position.
Shh, shh, shhh ... you want to make Saint George Floyd cry?
Well, some dimwit accused the NFL of "racism" even though it stopped the game last night after the Bills' player's collapse. I'm with you. Most "Social Science" isn't.
I've got to renew my subscription, but the Bidenflation made this year particularly light. The kids came first, then the wife. At some point in the near future dad will get his online subscription money
I don't even get the Big Pork Chop at dinner anymore. Damned teenaged boy!
One of my earliest memories is New Year's Day when I was 3 or 4 years old. I stumbled blearily into the kitchen for breakfast, still wearing my onesie, and Mom brightly said, "Happy New Year!" I immediately jolted awake, ran to the living room and looked out the front windows at the snow-covered street ... only to be severely disappointed. "Mom!" I cried. "Everything's still the same! Where's all the new stuff?" She then tried to explain the concept of Time to me.
Despite that recurring disappointment, I do still like the idea of putting last year in a box, and opening a new book with 12 clean, white pages on which I can write anything I want.
2022: Good riddance to bad rubbish.
*snicker*
Yeah, not ruling it out.
"2020 won." "2022 too."
Not sure about loss of followers - maybe check your pricing model as it was just one tier, now it appears to be two?
Might wanna look at if those losses were also at the end of their subscription period as well.
I enjoy your writing, and will continue to support!
I haven't changed the pricing at all.
Weird. I guess my memory is short (always). I thought originally was a 5 and 50, and the 75 was a recent addition? Regardless, you write good stuff. I encourage my friends to join ya. Now I need more friends :)
Thanks! $75 has been the founding member level from the start.
Yep, I'm smart, but not so bright. Probably why I'm not a socialist :)
I wonder if some let subs lapse because (as I read it) you don't worship any politicians or ideologies.
Are his defense attorneys insinuating that gender dysphoria makes people homicidal maniacs?
"The petition also includes reports citing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a condition that causes anguish and other symptoms as a result of a disparity between a person’s gender identity and their assigned sex at birth."
Ah, yes. They fail to see that if this is so, the prescription is to lock up all of the potentially homicidal gender dysphorics until society has changed enough to make it safe for them to roam free again.
I somehow think they don't think that far ahead.
Just another form of victimhood.
Back when George Will used to be a principled conservative he penned an article early on that highlighted how colleges were amongst the first to extol the glamorization of being a victim. It's drifted into everything, even death row dudes. In just 8 short years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_1
Ya know, I can understand why someone on death row cries, "I'm a victim!"
I don't get why so many people outside of prison take up the cry, "He's a victim!" on his behalf - and completely ignore the actual victims that the inmate murdered and bereaved
Well! Greetings to All! And especially our host! Welcome back Jim!
Paul Ehrlich should be famous for losing his bet with Julian Simon. The original bet was on the price of 5 metals: Chromium, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten. Ehrlich lost. He thought prices would go up due to scarcity. The prices went down due to human ingenuity and better extraction (per Simon's side). That said: Great line: "You're allowed to ask why he's still sticking around". Like eating bugs, their pronouncements about too many people don't apply to them.
As for Extinction Rebellion, I'm OK with lunatics who stop destroying Art.
Soleimani's death was a high point for Trump's Administration and Trump personally.
"You wouldn't execute a woman, would you?" "We're not."
Can we presume Ehrlich is existing mostly on eating bugs?
Pfffftt... No one who holds such lofty ideals eats bugs!
Welcome back! I missed my daily dose of Jim