TheEncogitationer

Reg:

Why more Americans are now moving to Ireland.

The Americans who can move anywhere else have not just First World Problems but Starfleet Federation Problems. They obviously aren’t impacted by tarrifs or rising fuel prices. The rest of us are stuck here.

🎶One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not…[Read more]

Reg:

Have a great week and have a good 420 day tomorrow….:-)

Sadly, sizable chunks of Podcast-istan will be either be celebrating 4/20 for a reason other than herbal commestibles or worse they will be lounging in indifference.

Without breaking Godwin’s Law: “You know who else…?”

Reg:

Environment: Opioids and other drugs accumulating in freshwater fish.

Another unintended consequence of the Global “War On (Some) Drugs.”

When substances are made illegal, dealers and users have strong incentive to dispose of the substances if they are about to get caught. And not much incentive to care about how and where the substances…[Read more]

Jake:

Bonjour mon Pelican. I should have taken French and German and Russian. Language came pretty easily to me.

The rate things are going with Multipolarism, those languages, plus Arabic, Parsi, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese may be de rigeur languages.

Enco dropped an anchor. Never hit bottom is my guess.

Made me think…

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PopeBeanie:

Another thought I just had after something that happened at work recently:

If those protesters really want to help immigrants, they would learn the immigrants language and culture, then offer them a friendly chair and teach them ours.

What the U.S. is doing regarding immigration helps no one from here or from abroad.

Example from…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

That particular hazard of ICE is checked as long as they keep them in their pants, though this is the Trump Administration, so that may be too much to ask.

PopeBeanie:

That would be nice, for sure. Hopefully he won’t set her up for a fall when he needs another diversion.

It might not have been Trump who actually made the decision to nominate her but perhaps a handler, according to this article:

‘We just need someone who’s not crazy’: Inside the White House decision to nominate Erica Schwart…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

All of this really isn’t funny. Protesters should leave a place better than when they found it. Portland, Oregon had enough garbage in it’s streets as it was before this.

And since no one knows where these dildos have been, protesters could be spreading a biohazard, and could be prosecuted for such.

Of course, to the other side,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Trump may have accidentally done something right!

He has named Erica Schwartz as nominee for Director of The Center for Disease Control and Prevention!

Her record speaks for itself. Don’t get lockjaw beholding it. Your face might freeze that way:

Erica Schwartz–Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Schwartz

If…[Read more]

Reg, PopeBeanie and Jake:

This story should prove concerning to all of us:

Russia threatens to strike Israel-based drone production firm
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkbhstc3zl

How Ukraine goes, so goes Israel, and how Israel goes, so goes Europe. It’s all of a single piece.

Jake:

All of this indeed correct. Alas, Trump has his own unique mutation of brain rot and stink and he is not a man of ideas capable of properly destroying either Marxist Leftism or Islamism or Palestinianism. He thinks it all can be dealt with by a “deal.”

Trump’s Strait of Hormuz “deal” is a perfect example of how ridiculous and…[Read more]

Jake:

“Which country was selected last week by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to serve on the organization’s Program and Coordination Committee, the body that shapes UN policy on women’s rights, human rights, counterterrorism, and disarmament? Iran. Who supported this decision? Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and other…

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Reg:

Presuming all this is happening in a cave,

Here is something to make the chorus rave:

Ask if the shadows produced the chips

And ask the shadows to shoot from the hip.

When forthcoming chips don’t come to be.

Ask the chorus to spill the tea on your tea.

Reg:

The developing world would have a lot less child mortality if we could stop reverse-developing nations from recruiting and kidnapping children for combat. Maybe FEMA’s Gregg Phillips could teleport Iran’s children safely away from the IRGC:

Iran accused of war crime for recruiting children; FEMA official claims he was teleported by…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

That is generous of Ukraine to send drones to open up the Strait, even though Ukraine is still facing problems with Putin.

I just hope when this is all over, the drones don’t end up used against the West by equally dangerous Sunni regimes and terrorists.

Reg:

There is a new study done on benefits of getting the Shingles vaccine. I will get it soon as I had chicken pox when I was young.

Highly recommended. I got my two shots a few years ago, since I had Chicken Pox as a kid. The Shingles vaccine comes in a pair of shots spaced out over 2-6 months and you get to have fun saying the…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I get the connection you’re making, but really, is there more than just the name to discredit good science in a different discipline?

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

I should be more clear: I am all for vaccines as a life-saving technology. I think they should be available over-the-counter in Epi-Pens, eve…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Musk is out of his depth on vaccines (and probably on rocketry too, judging from how he like to blow shit up on his laugh pads)…

But just gotta say, Germany isn’t helping it’s case by naming it’s vaccine regulator the Paul Ehrlich Institute, if this is the same one who wrote The Population Bomb which held that we humans reached…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

That should be Thank Gregor Mendel, Norman Borlaug, and Genentech for GMOs. Gaia née Earth just unconsciously provided the raw materials.

And the most important reason for thanks is The Green Revolution that saved a billion humans from starvation. This helps people cope with reality without psychotropic drugs.