The Luddite nature of the Left rears it's ugly head. We are talking about people who believe EVs, windmills, and solar cells will replace coal turbines and nuclear reactors. Science is a tool but it becomes dangerous when turned into a belief system. Dr. Oluseyi is a fairly good speaker and the real deal unlike Tyson. How dare he question The Cathedral in their pronunciation of guilt. James Webb only suffers for being a white male scientist. There is no pleasing these insufferable people.
after hearing Tyson try to argue with Del Bigree on the Highwire, i'm convinced he was promoted up the affirmative action ladder because he clicked a few DEI boxes.
The CONSENSUS, THE CONSENSUS! Science has apparently ceased to advance. We have now reached consensus, and don't need to think and theorize, and progress and advance our understanding of the world anymore. Good thing for clowns like Tyson who can apparently only parrot what he believes is the CONSENSUS.
I read further about this and James Webb was a career bureaucrat. The actual actors in this instance were two other State Department employees, one of whom, James Peurifoy, bears more investigating.
They do. It's called the 2nd Amendment. That switch is the only thing in man's hands standing between them, total control, and all the consequences we would face if they achieve that. That's why they want to eliminate the switch. The other switch is God. You see them working overtime on that one, too.
I hate to disagree with you, but even if Oluseyi had been gay, he wouldn't have been gay enough. Or he would have been a traitor to gay people, or he would have hated himself or some such or other. (Maybe he'd be a closeted transwoman who was so repressed by our society that he lashes out at gay men with, um, facts, making him the ultimate victim, such a victim that even he himself doesn't understand how much of a victim he is. But that's how white, hetero supremacy works, don't you know?)
I suppose what's really hilarious is the people who are pushing the "Jim Webb" was a homophobe story are probably not gay either, or likely black. They're just that group of privileged white people who have crowned themselves "better than everyone."
Speaking of space, so how long before the sun goes Red Giant and puts us all out of our misery?
Between 2016 and 2019, Chanda was a frequent communicator and supporter of Beth Ann McLaughlin, a supposed advocate for women in science and engineering starting in about 2014. For a while in 2018 and 2019, many women who had been following along with various discussions on Twitter about women in science had concerns about how much actual advocacy Beth Ann McLaughlin was following through upon. Many of the procedures at the organization Beth Ann was supposed be running seemed to be fraudulent. I had tried to voice my concerns several times.
In the end, it was discovered that Beth Ann had faked an imaginary identity. That fiasco is described here:
Notably, Chanda had been a very close supporter of Beth Ann and was one of the last people to acknowledge Beth Ann's fradulent behavior. Once the fraud was published in the New York Times and Science Magazine, I suspect that Chanda leaned heavily on her mother's connections (Chanda's mother at this time had a public ratio talk show in New York that is an NPR affiliate) and was able to come out of the whole Beth Ann McLaughlin saga looking like a victim. In fact, much evidence suggests that Chanda should have at least suspected that Beth Ann was engaging in a number of actions that were fraudulent and have harmed other women in science and engineering.
I find it hypocritical, but not surprising, that Chanda is making such a big deal of the fact that Dr. Oluseyi isn't gay. Chanda did her PhD at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. Over the years, on her twitter account, she has bitterly complained about how racist Canadians are. Somehow, though, no one in the upper echelons at the Perimeter Insitute, and certainly not her PhD supervisor, ever get Chanda's ever accusing finger pointed at them.
I happen to be from Canada and have an undergraduate degree in physics. Back in 2016 or so, I had never heard of Chanda. Having grown up Western Canada, I had a longstanding interest in indigenous rights of indigenous Western Canadians. At that time, I had recently been talking with some members of the Blackfoot about their specific concerns about their treaty rights. These fall under a specific treaty called "Treaty 7".
Anyway, I posted a few tweets in support of the Blackfoot and stated that their rights under Treaty 7 had not been fully honored. There's an interesting book on this topic: The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7:
All of a sudden on Twitter, in swoops someone saying that I had no right to tweet about Treaty 7 since I was a "white women". It was Chanda. I had never heard of her. I had no idea why she was racializing my advocacy for Blackfoot Treaty rights.
Needless to say, Chanda is not indigenous and not Canadian (she had lived in eastern Canada as a student.) She has never lived in Western Canada. Not that I was trying to speak as an authority on Blackfoot treaty rights. I was just trying to lend a vote of support for my Blackfoot friends.
But no, no, Chanda's relatively short time in Ontario, Canada, and her status as "all Black/Jewish, queer/agender/woman/she" rendered any vote of support I might want to make for my Blackfoot friends irrelevant. She is, after all, THE EXPERT.
Another mildly amusing factoid about Chanda: at the beginning of COVID, in about March or April of 2020, by Twitter, Chanda issued the alert that all of us working engineers and scientists must make sure that we continue to pay our housekeepers once they were let go because of the lockdown. In response, I tweeted that I didn't have a housekeeper and did all my own housework (true). Not sure if Chanda fully compensated her housekeeper for her job loss. It does seem a little odd though that the ever-oppressed Chanda cannot do her own housework.
Wow, just WOW. I guess Chanda follows the maxim, “Go big or go home.” I can’t wait to read what you linked.
I was interested that her father’s name doesn’t appear on her Wikipedia page—as ever, I am fascinated with the questions of who, what, when, why, how—all the traditional topics that drove my student journalism that get scant notice in what passes for reporting today.
There's quite a lot online about the Beth Ann McLaughlin fiasco. What doesn't come through in the articles, however, is the degree to which the third party in the discussion about black, indigenous and trans science between Beth Ann and the imaginary trans indigenous geophysicist was Chanda. I suspect that if some of the Twitter Files people had a look at these old tweets in the 2016 to 2020 time frame, Chanda's tweets would be not only following along with Beth Ann, but egging her on.
Back in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Chanda also inserted herself into the Hawaiian Thirty Meter Telescope controversy:
According to astronomer Hontas Farmer:
"University of New Hampshire Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein PhD wrote a sadly necessary paper about this fact (1). Then in the end displays her own bias with what I can only hope is intentional irony in a brief one paragraph discussion of the Thirty Meter Telescope. In social justice warrior speak she colonizes the issue of TMT into a black feminist social justice narrative."
"The key actors in this issue, on both sides, are Kanaka Maoli. Both the Ku Kiai Mauna and Imua TMT are Native Hawaiian leads. She stereotyped all of them by casting an indigenous group as monolithic and implicitly dismissing anyone who may be part of that group who does not agree with her particular social justice point of view as, to state it plainly, acting white."
Thanks for pointing to the Wikipedia entry. I have proofread books for part of my living, and I once proofed a book on contributing to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an odd organism. It's essentially crowdsourced, which means a lot of back and forth.
If you're ever curious about what's going on behind the scenes at Wikipedia, each entry has a "talk" page. Prescod-Weinstein's is interesting for the "gender" conversation and for a conversation about this very incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chanda_Prescod-Weinstein).
Thanks for taking one for the team. I will not be wasting any time listening to morons from the grey hag rag debate the finer distinctions of leftist ignorance, or as you so eloquently put it the increasingly depraved expert classes.
How will society right itself? Will it be a gradual generational return to sanity, an unknown extinction event, or are we doomed to a future idiocracy?
Prescodd-Weinstein is a terror. She has absolutely ironclad identity credentials - black AND Jewish AND a woman AND actually not a woman but a ??? with pronouns. Untouchable in other words. And oh man does she milk it. Back in 2017 she was basically single-handedly responsible for forcing the American Physical Association to retract its pro forma congratulation to the newly elected president, for example. She's also been the ringleader of various vicious bullying campaigns against astronomers who fail to toe the line, Oluseyi being just one of the most notable. In that case I expect she was especially vindictive given that NASA - shockingly - stood up to her asinine pressure campaign.
Oh but she's a scientist you say? LMAO look up her publication record, all I'm gonna say there.
Your reference to Trofim Lysenko is spot on for half of the insanity we deal with today.Lysenko was an anti-Mendel agronomist whose crackpot theories exacerbated crop failures in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin and led to the deaths of millions. Mao adopted some of those practices in his Great Leap Forward with the same results. Now we contend with Climate Change, CRT, White Supremacy and gender theology that are given the same respect Lysenko received almost a century ago. Leftism is a fatal disease!
But don't worry, a new Senate bill gives a new agency explicit permission to ban all those wrongthinkers before they infect our innocent children with their hate speech.
And somehow the team that just spent four years as #THERESISTANCE can't ever envision a situation in which they would be on the opposite side of the government.
"Hakeem Oluseyi is black, and he grew up poor in rural Mississippi before finishing an astrophysics PhD at Stanford and working at places like MIT, but he has the tragic flaw of being heterosexual, which means that OMFG shut up Nazi. "
All I have to say is, NASA’s current administration is all about DEI/DIE. Locally, NASA’s JPL badly mistreated its unvaccinated employees and still has a vaccine mandate for new hires. My friend who works there just told me that his summer interns had to submit proof of vaccination. (This seems to be coming from their Caltech association, because the federal contractor mandate has finally, officially been rescinded.)
As for JWST, it truly is a miracle that the complex structures deployed flawlessly as they did. The spacecraft was more than a decade late due to its complexity. I have friends who worked on JWST (and I attended six sigma training with the Ball guys who were designing the hexagon mirrors way back when six sigma was the Current Thing). It’s original name was NGST, Next Generation Space Telescope.
OMG- Can things get anymore ridiculous! Everyday these people have nothing better to do then attack a person or thing that will do nothing to improve the quality of any ones life.
Life may be like a bowl of cherries, but the Neiman-Marxist brand of Communism (actually all Communusm) is like NASCAR: It can only turn Left, and thus as NASCAR drivers move basically in a circle , the wokesters end up arguing their half assed ever mutating intersectional victim dialectic in a circle. The problem is that unlike NASCAR, they are all armed and pointing their sanctimonious rage guns at the center of the circle, thus creating a circular firing squad. So what you’re seeing increasingly now is that having exhausted most of the normal humans who were either unfortunate or clueless enough to end up trapped inside the ballistic circle of wokeness, they are now shooting at each other, or in this case at an enshrined object of their devotion. Wouldn’t they want to celebrate a poor black child from an impoverished backwards Southern state who goes on to become a Stanford/MIT astrophysicist? ( which actually sounds like a pretty frickin’’ great old fashioned American success story btw) Nope - because he missed the sexual dis- orientation virtue signaling train. They can’t get any dumber or more perfectly absurd, until they are. Usually takes about 24 hours...And most of us just don’t care what these clowns think now, if we ever did. Herd anti-woke immunity is being reached.
“Another physicist, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, wrote an article saying this about the misattributed quote: “But that correction changes nothing.” She also demanded that the Webb telescope be renamed the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope, presumably because Prescod-Weinstein wishes to honor Republicans. But anyway.” 😂
Your description brings to mind how some sharks hunt smaller fish; herd them into a never-tightening spiral and then chow down.
Perhaps, in the US, you need to start spotting and cataloguing those sharks? Over here, it is becoming increasingly common knowledge who they are and where they originate and what they have in common, but the cultural taboo about speaking it out loud is still too strong, except among eastern european, african and mid-eastern migrants who don't give a rat's fart about white western liberal guilt-tripping.
Who's funding all this? What is the lowest common denominator among those funding this?
Assuming we'll never get proof of who is funding this, let's just get rid of all tax-exempt foundations and charities with a value in excess of say $10M. Make them all taxable and have to file GAAP returns. It's kind of a broad brush, but it would certainly help.
Simple taxation, as low as possible and set and defined and codified in local ordinance which may only be changed after a public referendum on each and every change.
If the people are to be taxed, then the people get to decide how much and what for, yes?
Radical! You propose change so extreme, so beyond reason, that you should be locked up. For your own good. Of course.
Replacing the world's labyrinthine complex of tax codes with a simple, easily understood flat tax would result in instant unemployment for tens of millions of bureaucrats, and millions of tax lawyers and accountants. How could you be so cruel? Shame!
So facts are now verboten if presented by one of the majority of the folks who live in the USA. OK. Got it.
BTW, I'm going to be using the phrase "OMFG shut up Nazi" as often as I possibly can. It is a delicious arrangement of words that draws a perfect picture of the morlocks of woke world -- bravo!
The real problem is that the universe itself is racist (black holes), gender-ist (binary stars), and differently-abled-ist (white dwarfs). We need to tear it down.
Really? We have it so good that we worry about names of telescopes ? Can these people not get a life! We have an invasion of the border, over 100,00 fentanyl deaths, crime ridden cities, prospects of nuclear war, unbelievable government debt - and we debate the cultural appropriateness of a telescope name!!! It's all a distraction and they will keep coming in an ever intensifying smoke screen. The rest of the world in laughing their ass off! Does not end well.
It's so sad really that these brains have been filled with so much hate. I can't imagine what it's like to be inside that mind of rage - it has to be exhausting. Never in my 70 years have I seen a society degrade so fast as the last three years. What I think- as long as the Elites and big gov keep us fighting and hating each other, then we can't unite and throw their ass out! " United We Srand, Divided We Fall" That's the END GAME.
The Luddite nature of the Left rears it's ugly head. We are talking about people who believe EVs, windmills, and solar cells will replace coal turbines and nuclear reactors. Science is a tool but it becomes dangerous when turned into a belief system. Dr. Oluseyi is a fairly good speaker and the real deal unlike Tyson. How dare he question The Cathedral in their pronunciation of guilt. James Webb only suffers for being a white male scientist. There is no pleasing these insufferable people.
Dr. Oluseyi is awesome. He’s not afraid to make fun of himself and have fun, unlike Tyson.
after hearing Tyson try to argue with Del Bigree on the Highwire, i'm convinced he was promoted up the affirmative action ladder because he clicked a few DEI boxes.
The CONSENSUS, THE CONSENSUS! Science has apparently ceased to advance. We have now reached consensus, and don't need to think and theorize, and progress and advance our understanding of the world anymore. Good thing for clowns like Tyson who can apparently only parrot what he believes is the CONSENSUS.
I read further about this and James Webb was a career bureaucrat. The actual actors in this instance were two other State Department employees, one of whom, James Peurifoy, bears more investigating.
They just don’t have an “off-switch,” do they?
That's exactly it. Never.
Yes they do
Jabbed are they?
It will activate eventually. Maybe with the next injection.
I mean, that's a type of off-switch....
Not that I would want that for anyone. May they come to their senses.
They also feel no shame. Even if they are humiliated and rebutted they don’t care, they just go onto the next issue.
My suspicion is that people like this are so awash in shame at such a deep level that individual moments of minor, passing shame don't even register.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/borderline-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20370237
Brilliant. Communal BPD.
Turning off would get them canceled.
They do like to eat their own. Can’t fix crazy.
Bingo!!
A bunch of broke d!cks who now have power because of social media.
They do. It's called the 2nd Amendment. That switch is the only thing in man's hands standing between them, total control, and all the consequences we would face if they achieve that. That's why they want to eliminate the switch. The other switch is God. You see them working overtime on that one, too.
It is fun to observe them getting tangled up in their own nets. I witness this a lot.
Of course they do, we just haven't crossed that line quite yet.
I hate to disagree with you, but even if Oluseyi had been gay, he wouldn't have been gay enough. Or he would have been a traitor to gay people, or he would have hated himself or some such or other. (Maybe he'd be a closeted transwoman who was so repressed by our society that he lashes out at gay men with, um, facts, making him the ultimate victim, such a victim that even he himself doesn't understand how much of a victim he is. But that's how white, hetero supremacy works, don't you know?)
I suppose what's really hilarious is the people who are pushing the "Jim Webb" was a homophobe story are probably not gay either, or likely black. They're just that group of privileged white people who have crowned themselves "better than everyone."
Speaking of space, so how long before the sun goes Red Giant and puts us all out of our misery?
Chandra Prescod-Weinstein was born to a mother from Barbados and according to Wikipedia is “queer and agender (sic). Her husband is a lawyer.”
Interestingly that entry has a very long paragraph with multiple references to this whole nasty tale.
Between 2016 and 2019, Chanda was a frequent communicator and supporter of Beth Ann McLaughlin, a supposed advocate for women in science and engineering starting in about 2014. For a while in 2018 and 2019, many women who had been following along with various discussions on Twitter about women in science had concerns about how much actual advocacy Beth Ann McLaughlin was following through upon. Many of the procedures at the organization Beth Ann was supposed be running seemed to be fraudulent. I had tried to voice my concerns several times.
In the end, it was discovered that Beth Ann had faked an imaginary identity. That fiasco is described here:
https://www.science.org/content/article/twitter-account-embattled-metoostem-founder-suspended
Notably, Chanda had been a very close supporter of Beth Ann and was one of the last people to acknowledge Beth Ann's fradulent behavior. Once the fraud was published in the New York Times and Science Magazine, I suspect that Chanda leaned heavily on her mother's connections (Chanda's mother at this time had a public ratio talk show in New York that is an NPR affiliate) and was able to come out of the whole Beth Ann McLaughlin saga looking like a victim. In fact, much evidence suggests that Chanda should have at least suspected that Beth Ann was engaging in a number of actions that were fraudulent and have harmed other women in science and engineering.
I find it hypocritical, but not surprising, that Chanda is making such a big deal of the fact that Dr. Oluseyi isn't gay. Chanda did her PhD at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. Over the years, on her twitter account, she has bitterly complained about how racist Canadians are. Somehow, though, no one in the upper echelons at the Perimeter Insitute, and certainly not her PhD supervisor, ever get Chanda's ever accusing finger pointed at them.
I happen to be from Canada and have an undergraduate degree in physics. Back in 2016 or so, I had never heard of Chanda. Having grown up Western Canada, I had a longstanding interest in indigenous rights of indigenous Western Canadians. At that time, I had recently been talking with some members of the Blackfoot about their specific concerns about their treaty rights. These fall under a specific treaty called "Treaty 7".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_7
Anyway, I posted a few tweets in support of the Blackfoot and stated that their rights under Treaty 7 had not been fully honored. There's an interesting book on this topic: The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7:
https://www.mqup.ca/true-spirit-and-original-intent-of-treaty-7--the-products-9780773515222.php
All of a sudden on Twitter, in swoops someone saying that I had no right to tweet about Treaty 7 since I was a "white women". It was Chanda. I had never heard of her. I had no idea why she was racializing my advocacy for Blackfoot Treaty rights.
Needless to say, Chanda is not indigenous and not Canadian (she had lived in eastern Canada as a student.) She has never lived in Western Canada. Not that I was trying to speak as an authority on Blackfoot treaty rights. I was just trying to lend a vote of support for my Blackfoot friends.
But no, no, Chanda's relatively short time in Ontario, Canada, and her status as "all Black/Jewish, queer/agender/woman/she" rendered any vote of support I might want to make for my Blackfoot friends irrelevant. She is, after all, THE EXPERT.
Another mildly amusing factoid about Chanda: at the beginning of COVID, in about March or April of 2020, by Twitter, Chanda issued the alert that all of us working engineers and scientists must make sure that we continue to pay our housekeepers once they were let go because of the lockdown. In response, I tweeted that I didn't have a housekeeper and did all my own housework (true). Not sure if Chanda fully compensated her housekeeper for her job loss. It does seem a little odd though that the ever-oppressed Chanda cannot do her own housework.
Wow, just WOW. I guess Chanda follows the maxim, “Go big or go home.” I can’t wait to read what you linked.
I was interested that her father’s name doesn’t appear on her Wikipedia page—as ever, I am fascinated with the questions of who, what, when, why, how—all the traditional topics that drove my student journalism that get scant notice in what passes for reporting today.
There's quite a lot online about the Beth Ann McLaughlin fiasco. What doesn't come through in the articles, however, is the degree to which the third party in the discussion about black, indigenous and trans science between Beth Ann and the imaginary trans indigenous geophysicist was Chanda. I suspect that if some of the Twitter Files people had a look at these old tweets in the 2016 to 2020 time frame, Chanda's tweets would be not only following along with Beth Ann, but egging her on.
Back in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Chanda also inserted herself into the Hawaiian Thirty Meter Telescope controversy:
According to astronomer Hontas Farmer:
"University of New Hampshire Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein PhD wrote a sadly necessary paper about this fact (1). Then in the end displays her own bias with what I can only hope is intentional irony in a brief one paragraph discussion of the Thirty Meter Telescope. In social justice warrior speak she colonizes the issue of TMT into a black feminist social justice narrative."
"The key actors in this issue, on both sides, are Kanaka Maoli. Both the Ku Kiai Mauna and Imua TMT are Native Hawaiian leads. She stereotyped all of them by casting an indigenous group as monolithic and implicitly dismissing anyone who may be part of that group who does not agree with her particular social justice point of view as, to state it plainly, acting white."
ttps://www.science20.com/hontas_farmer/chanda_prescodweinstein_right_on_black_woman_wrong_on_tmt-243847
Thanks for pointing to the Wikipedia entry. I have proofread books for part of my living, and I once proofed a book on contributing to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an odd organism. It's essentially crowdsourced, which means a lot of back and forth.
If you're ever curious about what's going on behind the scenes at Wikipedia, each entry has a "talk" page. Prescod-Weinstein's is interesting for the "gender" conversation and for a conversation about this very incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chanda_Prescod-Weinstein).
"Speaking of space, so how long before the sun goes Red Giant and puts us all out of our misery?"
Alas, not for several billion years. The best hope we have is that another giant meteor hits Earth before then.
Unless an EMP comes out of it towards earth. Then it's all over.
Danny Huckabee
Thanks for taking one for the team. I will not be wasting any time listening to morons from the grey hag rag debate the finer distinctions of leftist ignorance, or as you so eloquently put it the increasingly depraved expert classes.
How will society right itself? Will it be a gradual generational return to sanity, an unknown extinction event, or are we doomed to a future idiocracy?
TBD
“How will society right itself?”
Gotta be honest. Just started watching The Last of Us and keep thinking to myself that a zombie apocalypse might not be such a bad thing.
One of the simplest and best Tucker Carlson quotes: "Our elites are disgusting."
Agree with you and Tucker!
Prescodd-Weinstein is a terror. She has absolutely ironclad identity credentials - black AND Jewish AND a woman AND actually not a woman but a ??? with pronouns. Untouchable in other words. And oh man does she milk it. Back in 2017 she was basically single-handedly responsible for forcing the American Physical Association to retract its pro forma congratulation to the newly elected president, for example. She's also been the ringleader of various vicious bullying campaigns against astronomers who fail to toe the line, Oluseyi being just one of the most notable. In that case I expect she was especially vindictive given that NASA - shockingly - stood up to her asinine pressure campaign.
Oh but she's a scientist you say? LMAO look up her publication record, all I'm gonna say there.
I'm shocked!
Your reference to Trofim Lysenko is spot on for half of the insanity we deal with today.Lysenko was an anti-Mendel agronomist whose crackpot theories exacerbated crop failures in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin and led to the deaths of millions. Mao adopted some of those practices in his Great Leap Forward with the same results. Now we contend with Climate Change, CRT, White Supremacy and gender theology that are given the same respect Lysenko received almost a century ago. Leftism is a fatal disease!
But don't worry, a new Senate bill gives a new agency explicit permission to ban all those wrongthinkers before they infect our innocent children with their hate speech.
https://twitter.com/DannyC_DC1111/status/1659398712320294925
Full text:
https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/2/b/2b3c99bf-a4aa-40d5-8f10-1f2b994ca03c/2BB12EB960B8928B7BEE7A8285D61AF5.dpca-bill-text.pdf
Spent some time looking at this today, and it's appalling.
And somehow the team that just spent four years as #THERESISTANCE can't ever envision a situation in which they would be on the opposite side of the government.
That's because they were never really "the resistance."
That requires a replacement government of millions
Which is doable
So what happened to the RESTRICT Act, or are they just throwing monstrous bills against the wall to see what sticks?
A good gravy train for some - budget would be half a billion per year from 2027.
Flipped over to the twit, and saw my new favorite 'slur', Rainbow Supremist. 🤣
These are the times that try men's souls.
"Hakeem Oluseyi is black, and he grew up poor in rural Mississippi before finishing an astrophysics PhD at Stanford and working at places like MIT, but he has the tragic flaw of being heterosexual, which means that OMFG shut up Nazi. "
Hi Chris - I love the way you write!
Chris is an excellent writer. Clear and compelling.
It seems that NASA is reconsidering naming future missions after human beings due to the Webb flap: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/nasa-james-webb-controversy-mission-names-17882586.php
All I have to say is, NASA’s current administration is all about DEI/DIE. Locally, NASA’s JPL badly mistreated its unvaccinated employees and still has a vaccine mandate for new hires. My friend who works there just told me that his summer interns had to submit proof of vaccination. (This seems to be coming from their Caltech association, because the federal contractor mandate has finally, officially been rescinded.)
As for JWST, it truly is a miracle that the complex structures deployed flawlessly as they did. The spacecraft was more than a decade late due to its complexity. I have friends who worked on JWST (and I attended six sigma training with the Ball guys who were designing the hexagon mirrors way back when six sigma was the Current Thing). It’s original name was NGST, Next Generation Space Telescope.
OMG- Can things get anymore ridiculous! Everyday these people have nothing better to do then attack a person or thing that will do nothing to improve the quality of any ones life.
Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud.
Life may be like a bowl of cherries, but the Neiman-Marxist brand of Communism (actually all Communusm) is like NASCAR: It can only turn Left, and thus as NASCAR drivers move basically in a circle , the wokesters end up arguing their half assed ever mutating intersectional victim dialectic in a circle. The problem is that unlike NASCAR, they are all armed and pointing their sanctimonious rage guns at the center of the circle, thus creating a circular firing squad. So what you’re seeing increasingly now is that having exhausted most of the normal humans who were either unfortunate or clueless enough to end up trapped inside the ballistic circle of wokeness, they are now shooting at each other, or in this case at an enshrined object of their devotion. Wouldn’t they want to celebrate a poor black child from an impoverished backwards Southern state who goes on to become a Stanford/MIT astrophysicist? ( which actually sounds like a pretty frickin’’ great old fashioned American success story btw) Nope - because he missed the sexual dis- orientation virtue signaling train. They can’t get any dumber or more perfectly absurd, until they are. Usually takes about 24 hours...And most of us just don’t care what these clowns think now, if we ever did. Herd anti-woke immunity is being reached.
“Another physicist, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, wrote an article saying this about the misattributed quote: “But that correction changes nothing.” She also demanded that the Webb telescope be renamed the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope, presumably because Prescod-Weinstein wishes to honor Republicans. But anyway.” 😂
Your description brings to mind how some sharks hunt smaller fish; herd them into a never-tightening spiral and then chow down.
Perhaps, in the US, you need to start spotting and cataloguing those sharks? Over here, it is becoming increasingly common knowledge who they are and where they originate and what they have in common, but the cultural taboo about speaking it out loud is still too strong, except among eastern european, african and mid-eastern migrants who don't give a rat's fart about white western liberal guilt-tripping.
Who's funding all this? What is the lowest common denominator among those funding this?
Assuming we'll never get proof of who is funding this, let's just get rid of all tax-exempt foundations and charities with a value in excess of say $10M. Make them all taxable and have to file GAAP returns. It's kind of a broad brush, but it would certainly help.
Yep.
Why not go all the way if possible to do so?
Simple taxation, as low as possible and set and defined and codified in local ordinance which may only be changed after a public referendum on each and every change.
If the people are to be taxed, then the people get to decide how much and what for, yes?
Radical! You propose change so extreme, so beyond reason, that you should be locked up. For your own good. Of course.
Replacing the world's labyrinthine complex of tax codes with a simple, easily understood flat tax would result in instant unemployment for tens of millions of bureaucrats, and millions of tax lawyers and accountants. How could you be so cruel? Shame!
So facts are now verboten if presented by one of the majority of the folks who live in the USA. OK. Got it.
BTW, I'm going to be using the phrase "OMFG shut up Nazi" as often as I possibly can. It is a delicious arrangement of words that draws a perfect picture of the morlocks of woke world -- bravo!
The real problem is that the universe itself is racist (black holes), gender-ist (binary stars), and differently-abled-ist (white dwarfs). We need to tear it down.
Don't forget dark matter and dark energy.
Really? We have it so good that we worry about names of telescopes ? Can these people not get a life! We have an invasion of the border, over 100,00 fentanyl deaths, crime ridden cities, prospects of nuclear war, unbelievable government debt - and we debate the cultural appropriateness of a telescope name!!! It's all a distraction and they will keep coming in an ever intensifying smoke screen. The rest of the world in laughing their ass off! Does not end well.
It's so sad really that these brains have been filled with so much hate. I can't imagine what it's like to be inside that mind of rage - it has to be exhausting. Never in my 70 years have I seen a society degrade so fast as the last three years. What I think- as long as the Elites and big gov keep us fighting and hating each other, then we can't unite and throw their ass out! " United We Srand, Divided We Fall" That's the END GAME.