TheEncogitationer

Fellow Unbelievers,

Environment: Sails make a comeback in shipping, to dent its huge carbon footprint

“We’re aiming for punctuality,” says Neoline’s president, Jean Zanuttini. “It wasn’t speed that killed working sailing at the start of the 20th century, it was lack of punctuality.”

There’s your trouble, Jean. Punctuality requires speed. A dist…[Read more]

Reg,

I’ve read somewhere that forty days and forty nights of rain sufficient to flood the Earth and overtake Mount Everest would have to come down at the rate and pressure of Niagara Falls every second on every square inch of Earth. An Ark made of gopher wood would be smashed to toothpicks. If somehow it could avoid that fate, the air at the…[Read more]

Jake,

As far as generalizations go, you are correct, but hasty ones are like pudding of the brain best avoided and are as valid as calling feathers in hats macaroni. 🇺🇸🥁

I was also referring to serial killers which truth be told are probably inconsequential in any population

Obviously not inconsqeuential to the victims, of course.

and a…

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Jake and Unseen,

The lists of bad guys is both bigger and smaller than we think.

Jews do have the listed gangsters plus the Irgun and Stern Gangs and Kahane Chai.

Asians do have the listed gangsters plus the Virginia Tech Shooter, the Aum Cult terrorists who attacked Tokyo, and Chang-Kai Shek, Mao-Tse Tung, and Pol Pot, plus followers.

But we…[Read more]

Jake,

And it should be pointed out that there are or were recent allegations against Harvard policy in admitting Asians. Can’t let too many of THOSE people ascend or else we will be earing sushi and egg foo young until the cows and livestock are no longer slaughtered.

No danger of that. Wasabi Steak and Mongolian Beef are always in a…[Read more]

Reg, Robert, and Jake,

If we want Americans thinking critically and learning again, merit and ability should be the only criteria for admissions or employment in institutions of learning. Conditions of birth such as “race”, “ethnicity”, sex, and national origin should not be a consideration.

“Holistic” admissions and hiring are as bogus and…[Read more]

Reg

If I were using a hard copy dictionary, you would have me using the pages as a fan looking half of those up. You could be a Scrabble King easily!

Jake,

Funny, before I looked it up, I thought jejune was when SeSummer began.

Unseen,

Umm, you know, I have a far larger vocabulary than the average American, yet I had to run to the dictionary.

A little advice: if you want to be a smart communicator and not just a narcissistic egghead show off, use the common vocabulary.

The dictionary gives several synonyms: fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate…

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Jake,

Enco, i am torn betwen a requirement for Muslims before becoming US citizens. Should they be required to spit, urinate or defecate on their Quran?

It’s already forbidden for immigrants claiming asylum to be members of totalitarian parties or to engage in persecution themselves. We see how this is working out with our ill-enforced…[Read more]

Jake,

Big bang. 13 billion years hence. Cromulent. Big splash.

I like the word “cromulent.” It sounds like an adjective resulting from adding seasoned bread crumbs or cookie crumbs to complete a tasty entree or dessert.

Speaking of “The Big Bang”, when I first heard the term “Big Crunch” from the mouth of Berke Breathed’s child prodigy Oliver…[Read more]

Simon,

I think it’s ordinary straightforward philosophy. It would interest some people.

Posing a question and then saying that the answer is impossible to communicate, as Nagel does, is just intellectual self-lobotomizing. At least give the best evidence-based attempt at an answer and auto-correct when more evidence arises.

Simon,

He doesn’t have to be such a dick about it. I’m no fan of the excesses of woke puritan zealotry, but we can just draw a line and move on, that would be OK. I don’t feel like crushing them to death and dancing on the bits.

Their line didn’t allow for Western Civilization, much less America, Jews, or Israel.

Robert,

Everything Trump is doing sets a precedence and becomes normalized. Harvard is just one aspect on the attack on education. It may seem partially righteous now, but more is to come.

Oklahoma just passed a state resolution that “Christ is King”.

https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20250418_1

Stopping Academic Antisemites and stopping Chr…[Read more]

Robert,

Here’s the press release you forgot to link:

Students Against Antisemitism and Kasowitz Benson Torres Announce Settlement of their Lawsuit Against Harvard
https://www.kasowitz.com/media/client-news/students-against-antisemitism-and-kasowitz-benson-torres-announce-settlement-of-their-lawsuit-against-harvard/

As part of this settlement…

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Robert,

Here is the video I referenced linked on The Hill:

https://x.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1912283082364998131

Robert,

@Enco, sure companies pay taxes, but no company was going to orchestrate a mission to the moon. The return on investment as far as business development enabled by the Apollo program was 700% or 7:1 to the taxpayers.

If you had paid attention to the video from The Hill, Harvard’s private endowment was $57 Billion compared against $1…[Read more]

Unseen,

In a recent Facebook post answering a person who likes to remind leftists like me that the Democrats were very keen on the KKK and it was a Republican who freed the slaves, I said that the two parties flipped sides in 1964 with Pres. Johnson’s Civil Rights Bill. He countered that with the notion that, no, the Dems are still the party of s…

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Robert,

Instead of the myopic view, how about if we examine the accomplishments of Harvard Medical School alone, and gauge that against the alleviation of guilty conscience by the entitled Harvard students and staff with their flawed but inconsequential support of Palestinians.

It’s consequential to hard science when some of it’s best students…[Read more]