Frickin’ Youtube

I’m trying to listen to some metal on Youtube (mostly Visions of Atlantis, Battle Beast, Within Temptation…), but YT keeps interrupting to show me political ads.

For Stacey Abrams (GA gov) and Rapael Warnock (Sen reelection).

Apparently Abrams is magically single-handedly responsible for Georgia’s film industry.

Warnock’s ads amount to It isn’t my fault. Please re-elect me and I’ll try again.

Unsurprisingly, YT isn’t showing any Republican ads. I don’t know if that’s because they just won’t show them, or if — for just once — the Rs were smart enough not to waste their money advertising on Lefttube.

 

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New TZP Column: “Assault Weapons” BS

All “assault weapons” are not created equal.


I HATE THE TERM “ASSAULT WEAPON”
And this is just one of the many reasons why. I keep seeing crap about the Buffalo shooter illegally “modifying” his Bushmaster XM-15 rifle (when some dumbass isn’t calling it an “AR-15” which happens to be a Colt trademark). Case in point:
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“Imagine the compliance.”

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains Pfizer’s new tech to Davos crowd: “ingestible pills” – a pill with a tiny chip that send a wireless signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. “Imagine the compliance,” he says

Imagine the noncompliance

…and pharmaceutical execs dangling from light posts.

Also, imagine you’re a pharmaceutical exec with zero electronic engineering knowledge.

Not to say what might be vaguely possible sometime in the future, but with today’s tech:

A pill, incorporating both a practical quantity of medication, and a uniquely identifiable RF transmitter.

The transmitter will need an antenna large enough to effectively radiate a signal to reach the receiver.

What is the receiver? My closed, password-protected WiFi network? Or will this ingestible-sized pill include a SIM (even a nano-SIM is 0.48×0.35 inches) so it can utilize the cell phone network? In the case, that’s a lot of micro-cell phones (one per bill, per however many per bottle, per every prescription).

Now imagine a heavily prescribed… I don’t know, a mandated ChinCOVID pill?… drug with millions of people popping them first thing in the morning. I think we’re going to see a little phone network congestion.

Wait. Did I mention the battery this active radiator (as opposed to passive or near-field RFID) will also require.

Sheesh. Thse pills are getting bigger. My niece has trouble with vitamin capsules (kinda funny to watch; but I have a twisted sense of humor).

ETA: Heck; let’s consider some other issues.

To avoid toxic waste buildup in the body, these transmitters will have to be pretty chemically inert, or harmlessly digestible. Inert is doable.

Do we trust Big Pharma to make these transit once, then shut down? Or will the pill continue to report until it passes all the way through? Will these little cell phones be trackable by the CDC so it can track us like cattle?

Hmm. Imagine a 4-times-daily prescription, and all the little pillphones radiating until you crap them out. I think the folks worried about RF exposure from one external cell phone might freak out over 3 or 4 continuously exposing them internally.

Now imagine the pharma and insurance company liability.

 

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New Zelman Partisans Column: TX Rep. Sylvia Garcia

You ain’t gonna believe this one… well, it’s a congresscritter, so maybe you will.

The context was the Buffalo shooting.


QUESTIONS FOR TEXAS REP. SYLVIA GARCIA

“And we need to make sure that these assault and automatic weapons don’t get in the hands of bad guys, and sometimes, bad women. Because, again, I’ve been rabbit hunting.”

We need to get guns out of the hands of bad women because I’ve been rabbit hunting.
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I kept extending my publication deadline, and gave Garcia’s office four chances to comment and spin Garcia’s way out of this.

-crickets-

Rabbiting hunting as a justification for victim-disarmament is a new one.

 

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Zelman Partisans Column

More effin’ victim disarmament. Remember the good ol’ days when Dims were marginally intelligent enough to avoid that in election years?


DIMOCRATS SIGNAL MID-TERM ELECTION CHEATING
That’s about the only way to explain the “Federal Firearm Licensing Act”.

Traditionally, Dims have avoided gun people control bills when elections are coming. It’s a campaign killer (right, Duke Nukem?). Certainly the money is on the same thing being the case this cycle.

But if you have no intention of allowing fair and honest elections (again), what’s the harm in pushing a bill to license gun owners register all firearms and owners via a “may issue” federal licensing system?
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Yeah; well, the good ol’ days were before they realized the Repugnants would let them cheat like hell.

That Reminds Me

Ah, Twitter…

Twitter to add warning label to tweets it deems ‘viral misinformation’
Twitter announces censorship tools for combatting ‘viral misinformation’

The feature would allow Twitter representatives to censor or handicap posts they determine to be misleading or false. The company claimed that the suppression tools will only be used in the case of a “humanitarian crisis.”

Aside from the BS “humanitarian crisis” bit, I don’t see what’s new about this. But it did remind me.

Last month, on noting I’m still “suspened” by Twitter (since September 2020), I decided to “appeal” my suspension. Again. After all, a judge and jury ruled that I was correct.

Not that I have any intention of using Twitter; but I would like to log in and delete the account.

So it’s been three weeks. I’m still suspended. They haven’t even bothered to “rule” on my appeal.

Hmm. Maybe Elon Musk should widen his Twitter data search a little, from just how many Twiiter accounts are bots, to how many “real” accounts are even allowed to use Twitter?

How many accounts are pople like me, who haven’t been allowed to tweet in most of two years?

Soyocrats

It seems someone did a study of male testosterone levels and political affiliation.

The lower their testosterone level, the more hardcore Dimocrat they were.

The Dims with somewhat higher (19% higher) levels than other Dims were salvageable with testosterone therapy.

We tested the fixity of political preferences of 136 healthy males during the 2011 U.S. presidential election season by administering synthetic testosterone or placebo to participants who had identified the strength of their political affiliation. Before the testosterone treatment, we found that weakly affiliated Democrats had 19% higher basal testosterone than those who identified strongly with the party (p=0.015). When weakly affiliated Democrats received additional testosterone, the strength of their party fell by 12% (p=.01) and they reported 45% warmer feelings towards Republican candidates for president (p < 0.001). Our results demonstrate that testosterone induces a “red shift” among weakly-affiliated Democrats. This effect was associated with improved mood. No effects were found of testosterone administration for strongly affiliated Democrats or strong or weak Republicans. Our findings provide evidence that neuroactive hormones affect political preferences.

I can’t see the whole paper, so I can’t evaluate their methodology… but it sounds intuitive, and I have runs across other studies showing DIms with lower testosterone levels. This is the first I saw that tried giving them a boost, though.

The Ammo Crisis Is Solved With This One Simple Trick*

Having trouble finding fodder for your AR-pattern rifle, without going bankrupt?

No problem. Apparently there’s a simple rifle modification that…

Well, let NCPR’s Karen DeWitt tell you.


Hochul to propose closing loopholes in New York’s gun laws
The gun used by the suspect, an automatic rifle known as an AR-15, is sold legally in New York. But the gun was modified with a high-capacity magazine that allows 30 shots per round.


Yes! 30 shots per round. A feat that previously required a shop and a pile of components. But now a simple mod allows you to do it on the fly; no shop, bullets, powder, or primers needed.

Have fun reading that column. 30 shots/round was just one issue (that “automatic rifle known as an AR-15” is a clue). I wrote to her to recommend adding me to her rolodex so I can advise her on how firearms and law actually work.


* Yes, that’s deliberately click-baity. I’ve always wanted a chance to say that, just to ridicule the usual suspects.